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I just completed by first week back to work. SO glad to have that first week behind me. To tell you the truth, only Thursday and Friday were student days, but nonetheless the week felt intense. Opening school is hectic. I'm so glad to be off and running.
A dreamy/practical list feels appropriate. Something I've been thinking about is approaching the weekends with more intention. I'd like to plan a bit ahead, have something specific to look forward to during the week, and not let the precious weekend simply wash over me. These two days each week are so valuable and I want to make them count.
So with that in mind, here is my list for this first weekend of the school year.
Dreamy:: my mom turns 79 today! We will go tomorrow and wish her happy birthday and sing to her and eat cake.
:: date night with Ken on Saturday night. Hooray for Saturday date night!
:: Saturday morning yoga. The summer was crazy and I barely made it to any yoga classes. Sad! And now I'm back at square one and 5 lbs heavier (at least). It will feel good to get back into it.
:: and after yoga I want to lay out by the pool for one hour. I think Ken and the boys will meet me there and maybe we will order lunch.
:: dream of recipes and cooking. We've been getting a kitchen remodel this summer and I haven't had a kitchen for the past several weeks. Two or so more weeks to go! Can't wait to make poached eggs and family dinners.
:: on Sunday we want to have a little picnic in the park.
Practical:: laundry is more challenging since the kitchen remodel means we also don't have a laundry room for now. I've been doing laundry at my parents' house, but I may go quicker this weekend and use a laundromat.
:: wash the car Sunday morning with Dieter. It's our little Sunday ritual. He's a great helper and it's one of the few times we can have mother-son time (with just him and not his brother).
:: neaten up the house--pick up and swipe down the bathroom
:: set out clothes for Monday morning.
I'll be back later with my ideas and thoughts about starting the school year. Happy Friday!


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Here's a chance to celebrate something wonderful happening in Toledo:
We're celebrating the anniversary of the very first sister city relationship, The Association of Two Toledos, and the creation of documentary film by Jacob David and Joel Washing, two local filmmakers.
Jacob and Joel have been honored in Spain, and now we're throwing a party to honor them here at home and to help raise funds for the completion of their documentary in time for a September premiere. All the details are in the attached invitation.
If you can't come, please consider sending a check, made out to The
Association of Two Toledos, to
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Apologies in advance to our conservative Canadian friends; but the explainer here is regarding America-First trade and economics against the backdrop of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, Canada and Mexico's alignment therein, the APEC Summit and rainbow socks.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Justin from Canada
Here's why Canada and Mexico signing up to TPP is great news for the U.S., and couldn't come at a better time for NAFTA round #5 on November 17th. We don't want TPP to collapse, because TPP ties the hands of Canada and Mexico to elements of trade that are based on collective interests. Their joining TPP provides the U.S. leverage in NAFTA.
Remember, Vietnam is exactly 12 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time zone. At 7:450pm last evening in Vietnam (local time), at the last minute, Rainbow Socks backed out of the signing the TPP framework (explained here). Twelve hours later, at 7:20am (local), the AP reported the agreement was "back on" with "a compromise":
DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Latest on the summit of 21 Pacific Rim economies in Vietnam (all times local): 7:20 a.m. – Trade ministers say they have reached a basic agreement on a Pacific Rim trade pact without the United States.
A statement issued in the early hours Saturday says an accord was reached on "core elements" of the 11-member Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal abandoned by President Donald Trump after he took office. (more)
Rainbow Socks tweets out his appreciation for Japanese PM Sinzo Abe. In essence, beyond the language, Prime Minister Abe just saved political face for Rainbow Socks.
Prime Minister Abe said he also had concerns for the agreement, even though he was one of the 10 foreign heads-of-state ready to sign the accord last night. Just like Businessman Donald Trump, Businessman Shinzo Abe knows how to create leverage. His maneuver to save face of Justin from Canada creates leverage. BFF's Trump and Abe are masters of the leverage universe… Rainbow Socks, not-so-much.
The APEC CEO Summit is all about economics and trade with a smattering of national security etc. mixed in. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is about their collective assembly and how they will agree to share the "trade and economic wealth".
President Trump, via team USA, isn't interested in collective wealth sharing agreements; there's no upside benefit to the U.S. in such matters. As such there was really no reason, based on the primary purpose of the summit, for President Trump to attend. However, President Trump wanted to tell the collective assembly face-to-face what the U.S. policy on trade means. That's why he was so direct, deliberate and unapologetic last night as he laid out the terms and U.S. position.
Additionally, Trump talked about North Korea with the Summit participants, but you'll note he did so only at a high level. Trump only needs the APEC group to generally just agree with the USA/China/Japan/S-Korea action regarding the DPRK, they don't need to do anything extra. Ergo there's no sense in expending energy on them. The real solution to N-Korea is within China.
President Xi Jinping is 90% of the Trump strategy because Xi can solve the problem unilaterally. [South Korea and Japan hold lesser influence and the rest of the APEC summit participants combined only amass 1% on the DPRK importance scale.]
Back to trade. You'll note that China (Xi Jinping) also doesn't seem to be too involved in the details of the APEC summit. The reason is the same as Trump, China's not in TPP and when/if they ever decide to enter the backdoor to TPP (they'll wait til it's all assembled and finalized to look at it), China will demand terms that the rest of the participants will just have to deal with. So China, along with Russia, is also in "just watching" mode.
However, Rainbow Socks and Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto have made their decision to attach their economies to TPP. This means they will agree to binding rules on disagreements, give up their own court system for trade disputes, agree to manufacturing employment laws that benefit Asia and in a general sense screw themselves royally. TPP is not about just trade, it's actually a legal binding to all kinds of intrusive measures.
By Mexico and Canada signing on to TPP they automatically put their own manufacturing and commerce systems into a compliance model that requires them to adhere to the TPP mandates on how stuff is made.
This is where it gets important. This means two-thirds of the NAFTA participants, Mexico and Canada, are signing up to restrictive trade rules on their own free market systems. Their companies will have to adhere to Asia and the collective TPP policy in their economic sectors, manufacturing, e-commerce, as well as finance laws and employment.
The United States is not participating in the multilateral TPP boondoggle. So when the U.S. is negotiating NAFTA, team USA can insist on manufacturing and trade terms that are entirely outside the framework of TPP.
The makes massive leverage for the U.S. because the details can force Rainbow Socks and Pena Nieto to operate dual systems of manufacturing in various trade sectors. One system TPP compliant, and the second NAFTA compliant.
Obviously, it would be ridiculous for CanaMex to attempt to operate under two costly systems of trade that might be directly in opposition to each other; so there's no way they could ever agree to such conditions.
Accepting this reality, it makes you wonder if Team USA didn't intentionally delay NAFTA renegotiations until CanaMex signed up to TPP. Remember: "killers".
USTR Lighthizer begins Round #5 NAFTA talks on November 17th. This is going to be very telling because Round #4 ended with massive distance between the parties.
USTR […] Frankly, I am surprised and disappointed by the resistance to change from our negotiating partners on both fronts. We have made some headway on the first objective, but even here we have sometimes seen a refusal to accept what is clearly the best text available in spite of the countries having agreed to it in the past.
In certain cases, partners who agree to TPP have actually rejected its text here. I would have thought by now we could have cleared chapters dealing with digital trade, telecommunications, anticorruption, and several sectoral annexes, for example.
As difficult as this has been, we have seen no indication that our partners are willing to make any changes that will result in a rebalancing and a reduction in these huge trade deficits. Now I understand that after many years of one-sided benefits, their companies have become reliant on special preferences and not just comparative advantage. Countries are reluctant to give up unfair advantage. (read more)
With Canada and Mexico signing up to TPP, Lighthizer walks into Round #5 with incredible leverage. Either Canada and Mexico take the knee, or the U.S. just cancels NAFTA and deals with each nation individually. Either way, it's good for team USA.
The likely scenario is NAFTA is dissolved. Trump, Ross and Lighthizer begin constructing trade deals that are America-First, and U.S. Companies are free to engage in use of the unregulated operational leverage Team U.S.A. has provided.
Meanwhile, regardless of TPP, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is already holding a golden ticket to the U.S. Market provided by Trump.
[Kaizen, Edwards Deming]
The same offer appears on the horizon for South Korea's Moon Jae-In, if he gets into compliance with the Trump security/trade agenda.
India's Prime Minister Modi is looking good as the Indo-Pacific plans outlined by the administration also appear to show that Modi has the golden ticket opportunity; The goal is to open India markets to U.S. exports and have Modi drop the excessive tariffs currently in place. Negotiations ongoing…
That leaves Chinese President Xi Jinping. If, BIG IF, President Xi can convince Beijing to allow him to act on Little Rocket Man, well, it won't exactly be a golden ticket -because they've over used (exploited) the prior ticket- but it'll be much better than the alternative.
POTUS Trump would like nothing more than to return the three air carrier groups away from DPRK posture and provide Shinzo Abe and Moon Jae-in the defense material to take care of themselves, with the U.S. partnership acting as their national security insurance policy.
There's a great deal of taxpayer value is not spending on the DPRK issue; those saved dollars can be shifted to provide incentives, the underlying trade-ticket value, for China.


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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Thankfulness and The Early Bird
Whether you sit down for turkey dinner or not, this is a good time of year to remember all the things to be thankful for. At Camp Friendship summer camp in Virginia, we're thankful for having the most incredible children attend our camp, and thankful for the parents who decide to choose our camp for their children. We're thankful for a dedicated staff who goes above and beyond, facilitating the most amazing conversations and exciting experiences for our campers. A great group of leaders who allow our campers ample opportunities to learn, create, and grow individually and as a team.
Before the holiday's come into full swing, don't forget to take advantage of Camp Friendship summer camp early bird discount which ends on December 1st. Many sessions at Camp Friendship fill up quickly. We encourage you to register early, before the holidays, to reserve your child's space for summer camp 2015.
Camp Friendship's Ice Skating Event is December 7th from 2pm-3:30pm in Ashburn Ice House. Free for everyone. Go to our Upcoming Events page to reserve your spot.
Keep up to date and check in often to see whats happening at Camp Friendship on our events page.
To everyone – Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Building Life Skills At Camp
We all want our children to live a better quality of life, accomplish their ambitions and live to their fullest potential. By learning new skills they increase their understanding of the world around them and become better equipped with the tools they need to live a more productive life. Life skills are not always taught directly but often learned indirectly through experience and practice. By presenting a goal such as summer camp, your child can think about it, focus and strive for it all year long. Whatever it is that gets your kids excited you can make sure that is incorporated on their focus of summer camp. Like adults, when children have something to look forward to, it helps them to complete their tasks and responsibilities and stay on track. They can look forward to reaching their goal and reward. As your child gets excited you can talk about your expectations of them. You can also let them make some mini goals themselves that they can accomplish along the way and discuss these together. A countdown always seems to add a thrill as the goal gets closer and closer. A visual reminder can teach them that hard work pays off and that putting time and effort into something is worth it, teaching them about hard work, patience and determination. Getting your child involved in goal setting and giving them something to look forward to is an important skill that they will benefit from and use during their entire lifetime. Remember to register early and give your child something to look forward to next summer at Camp Friendship in Virginia!
• Early Registration Discount for the summer camp 2015 is only available until December 1st, save $100 per week plus you can qualify for additional discounts.
• Ice Skating Event is December 7th from 2pm-3:30pm in Ashburn Ice House. Free for everyone. Have to go to the Camp site to Upcoming Events to reserve their spot.
Keep up to date and check in often to see whats happening at Camp Friendship on our events page.
Looking Back To Summers Past: Blast from the Past #11
Boys being boys. Do
Camp Friendship Tennis Pro Is New QuickStart President
Hurray for our Alina Ackenbom, Camp Friendship's Tennis Pro, was recently elected as the new President of QuickStart of Central Virginia (QCV) non-profit organization. QuickStart Tennis is the USTA's kid-sized, age- appropriate format for teaching kids ages three and up the "sport for a lifetime." QuickStart Tennis tries to grow tennis from the ground starting by introducing tennis to young kids through school, pre-school and afterschool. Tennis has always taught kids valuable character-building life skills like integrity, sportsmanship, dedication, determination and teamwork. QuickStart adds FUN fitness and conditioning activities that work on agility, balance, coordination, footwork and reaction time. QCV is helping create "play pathways" in the communities we serve. Kids have so much FUN with QuickStart that they don't even know they're learning, and they're learning a lot. Alina's term is for the next 3 years.
Just more confirmation that Camp Friendship knows how to find quality people to teach your kids!
Don't forget to keep checking our events page to find out about upcoming events.
Looking Back To Summers Past: Blast from the Past 10
Starting To Think About Next Summer
We're slowly approaching less than 200 days until summer camp begins. I can't wait! I'm not sure if it's the cold weather approaching, the shorter days or simply missing all the fun, that moments like these are already becoming more frequent.
During this time of year the staff at Camp Friendship is thinking about what new changes we should incorporate for next summer to make it better than the last, as well as wondering who will be coming back to join us. By now parents likely have adequate feedback to be able to evaluate the value of their kids spending the summer at Camp Friendship sleep away camp, and soon decide to register their returning campers. Some campers who know they are returning, might be looking forward to the coming summer just as we are, waiting to see friends and counselors with whom over the years they've built strong bonds with. We all are looking forward to more memories, adventures and new options and opportunities as they begin to present themselves.
So much happens at camp each summer, it's easy to see that by not returning–even for a summer–campers could miss out on something big! Probably the most important thing to contemplate when deciding whether to return to camp is that next summer could be a camper's best summer ever! With that being said, we at Camp Friendship are really missing
everybody and hope to see you all again next year!
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The market for qualified people is small. People send resumes adapted to different job listings, even if they lack the skills for them. We used skills assessments and we uncovered liars, but we also found great talent. These tests helped us speed up the recruiting process.
How to Improve the Quality of Your Recruiting
Posted by Michael D. Haberman
We've all been there before: you are charged with the responsibility of finding the next great employee. You are given a list of knowledge items, skills, and abilities this individual must possess. You must determine whether each candidate has those skills. Generally, these abilities are part of a list of business hard skills the hiring manager requires for the position in question. How do you make the right determination? Let's explore how you can determine whether a candidate possesses the hard skills necessary for employment success.
What are "hard skills"?
Investopedia defines hard skills as "Specific, teachable abilities that can be defined and measured … Examples of hard skills include job skills like typing, writing, math, reading and the ability to use software programs."
In contrast, soft skills are less tangible and harder to quantify. They include listening, collaborating, working as a team, and other personality-driven capabilities. According to AboutCareers, "Examples of hard skills include computer programming, web design, typing, nursing, electrical, accounting, finance, writing, mathematics, legal and other quantifiable skills that are included in the requirements for a job."
Hard skills are commonly considered to be a candidate's "experience" and are the points looked for on a resume and in an interview. However, equating hard skills with experience poses two problems.
Two problems
The first problem is that candidates often embellish their resumes to include as many hard skills for workplace success as possible. For example, "I have used spreadsheets before" becomes "I can create spreadsheets and use formulas."
Embellishment leads to the second problem. As the person making the initial assessment of a candidate, you must ensure the candidate possesses the requisite skills. Unfortunately, the person making the screening assessment may not possess that skill. If you don't know how to create a spreadsheet with formulas, how can you determine if the candidate really knows what he or she is doing? Guessing is probably not your best option for determining whether someone has these requisite business hard skills.
What's the solution?
Udemy, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) company, explains that "Essentially, any skills that can be measured, such as on a test, are considered hard." Because the importance of hard skills in the workplace is so critical to business success, and because these skills are measurable, why not use a test? Specifically, why not use an assessment of the candidate's ability? One such company that offers these types of assessments is eSkill.
According to eSkill's website, "Pre-employment testing research shows you can save significant time and resources when you use an employment testing service. eSkill's pre-employment assessments help save your staff valuable time—and, as you well know, their time is money."
Providing an online assessment to assess a candidate's skill levels for specific position-related abilities makes better use of recruitment time and produces validated results by allowing you to see beyond the embellished resume. Ultimately, online assessments get to the heart of the candidate's abilities. This type of screening saves significant dollars over traditional methods of screening candidates.
How would you test something that is not a standard skill? eSkill allows you to customize the assessment to test a specific skill. According to one user, "Clients can author their own questions from scratch, or convert paper versions of skills into an online eSkill assessment. In addition, they can edit existing questions to adapt them to their specific testing needs."
Current employees
Assessments are not just a prescreening tool. They also allow you to accomplish a variety of other tasks, such as:
- Assessing training needs of current employees
- Benchmarking current jobs and high-performing employees
- Conducting a skills-gap analysis between jobs and current employees to point out training needs
- Completing employee appraisals to reduce subjectivity, which is a common complaint in performance appraisal
The versatility of assessments produces a wealth of uses.
Soft skills too
When you are looking at candidates, you want to evaluate both specific business hard skills and soft skills such as leadership, communication, customer-centered people skills, and presentation abilities. eSkill's assessment tools incorporate both of these features, which are also adaptable to the company's needs.
Improve your process
If you are struggling to select the best candidates or you are losing people soon after hiring because of a lack of skills you thought they possessed, you should consider an assessment process. Skill assessments are convenient, effective, and validated. Take a look and see if they fit your needs!
Avoid Counterfeit Candidates: 7 Steps to Effective Candidate ScreeningScreening your candidates effectively can save your company a lot of time and money spent hiring the wrong people. It can also greatly increase your chances of hiring the kind of top-quality employees who can add significantly to your company profits over the long term. Follow these seven steps to help ensure that the ROI for your next hire rises to the top of the charts. DOWNLOAD
Michael D. Haberman is Vice-President and co-founder of Omega HR Solutions, Inc., a consulting and services company offering complete Human Resources solutions. As the former founder and President of MDH Consulting, a Human Resources consulting firm, Mike has more than 35 years of experience in Human Resources, and he uses his broad-based background to help companies solve employee problems and deal with governmental compliance.
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The workforce is online, the recruiting is online. Skills testing is the right tool to find the great people among the mass of applicants and hire them faster.
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Candidates who have to pass skill tests as part of a recruitment process have the privilege of getting an accurate evaluation of their knowledge and a fair chance of finding a great job. I believe such tools are a step toward stopping any kind of discrimination.


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In Ray Oldenburg's 'The Problem of Place in America' and Ishmael Reed's 'My
Neighborhood' the authors express thier dissatisfaction with the community. Oldenburg
focuses on the lack of a 'third place' and the effects of consumerism on the suburbs, while
Reed recalls his experience with prejudice communities. Their aim is to identify problems
in our society that they find to be a problem. Although neither of these authors offer
solutions, the fact that these problems are addressed is enough.
Some basic similarities between these two authors is they are both attempting to
identify problems in our society today. There are many that are ailing our society at this
time, yet I agree with them in their deductions. It seems that they have addressed two of
the main ills today, prejudice and consumerism. These keep our communities from
becoming unified. Fear is one of the prevalent themes in both essays.
In Oldenburg's
essay the suburbanite fears the unknown, his neighbors. People feel threatened by the size
of the communities and they do not know anyone. These is due partly to consumerism,
which keeps people indoors. Reed was feared because of the color of his skin. Dogs
would bark at him as he walked by, cops would enter his own home to harass him, people
would yell racial slurs, and he was even watched closely to make sure that he did not
abduct a child off the street. These fears are a result of the media and our society telling
us to fear certain types of people. Television often portrays the black man as a dope
dealing slander who hangs out on corners with a forty of 'Old E.' Soon people begin to
believe all that they hear and begin to discriminate against others.
One glaring difference in the two...


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What is Cash-On-Cash Return
Cash-on-cash return is a rate of return often used in real estate transactions that calculates the cash income earned on the cash invested in a property. It is considered relatively easy to understand and one of the most important real estate ROI calculations.
What's a Cash-On-Cash Return?
BREAKING DOWN Cash-On-Cash Return
Cash-on-cash return is a metric normally used to measure commercial real estate investment performance. It is sometimes referred to as the cash yield on a property investment. The cash-on-cash return rate provides business owners and investors with an analysis of the business plan for a property and the potential cash distributions over the life of the investment.
Cash-on-cash return analysis is normally used for investment properties that involve long-term debt borrowing. When debt is included in a real estate transaction, as is the case with most commercial properties, the actual cash return on the investment differs from the standard return on investment (ROI). Calculations based on standard ROI take into account the total return on an investment. Cash-on-cash return, on the other hand, only measures the return on the actual cash invested, providing a more accurate analysis of the investment's performance.
Calculating the Cash-on-Cash Return
For real estate, cash-on-cash return measures the annual return the investor made on the property in relation to the down payment only and is calculated as:
Cash-on-cash return only uses an investment property's pre-tax inflows received by the investor and the pre-tax outflows paid by the investor. For example, suppose a commercial real estate investor invests in a piece of property that does not produce monthly income. The total purchase price of the property is $1 million. The investor pays $100,000 cash as a down payment and borrows $900,000 from a bank. Due are closing fees, insurance premiums, and maintenance costs of $10,000, which the investor also pays out of pocket.
After one year, the investor has paid $25,000 in loan payments, of which $5,000 is a principal repayment. The investor decides to sell the property for $1.1 million after one year. This means the investor's total cash outflow is $135,000, and after the debt of $895,000 is repaid, he is left with a cash inflow of $205,000. The investor's cash-on-cash return is then: ($205,000 - $135,000) / $135,000 = 51.9%.
In addition to deriving the current return, the cash-on-cash return can also be used to forecast the expected future cash distributions of an investment. However, unlike a monthly coupon payment distribution, it is not a promised return but is instead a target used to assess a potential investment. In this way, the cash-on-cash return is an estimate of what an investor may receive over the life of the investment.


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this describes my 90's fashion aesthetic to a T
love these maggie mull illustrations
actual vid here
and this
and this too. (snl rocked this week btw)
ooh yeah
and this collection makes me lol so much (source)
at 3:35 PM
is it butter?
the world is yours
That guy is all "aw yeah, i bought my two copies of windows 95 and now I am going to sell one in the newspaper classifieds at a huge markup"
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Easy haircuts for women over 50 range from short to shoulder-length and usually feature layers and bangs. Layered bobs, spiky pixie cuts and modern shags are examples of these hairstyles.
The layered bob is easy. The hairstylist adds long layers that allow the hair to move. To style a layered bob, women blow dry the hair with a round brush, add a little shine serum and set it with light hairspray. If the hair stylist includes more layers, the look can be curled for a more formal look. In this case, the layers are curled in alternating directions.
The modern shag is similar to the layered bob but contains a lot more layers. The hairstylist should make the layers uneven. To style this haircut, women run their fingers through their hair until it's mostly dry, which gives the style volume. They finish with a medium-size round brush to flip the ends up. Adding molding gel at the end to pull the layers apart makes the look modern.
A spiky pixie haircut is easy to take care of. The style features short, side-swept bangs and texturized layers all over. Styling the spiky pixie requires rubbing the fingers through the hair while drying and finishing with hair wax to pull the spikes apart from the rest of the hair.


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Knitting Circle meets on the First Monday 7 to 8:30pm in the Delta Community Library.
More about Knitting Circle at the Delta Community Library
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Location: basement of Presbyterian/Lutheran Church.
Info: (907)895-5076, (907)460-0367, (907)895-6202, (207)357-5669 (every Monday)
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. See Synonyms at rural.
- adj. Of or characteristic of shepherds or flocks; pastoral.
- n. A pastoral poem.
- n. A farmer or shepherd; a rustic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
- adj. Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants.
- n. A pastoral poem.
- n. A rustic, peasant
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
- n. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pastoral; relating to country affairs, or to a shepherd's life and occupation: as, bucolic song.
- Agricultural: used humorously or in disparagement.
- n. [⟨ L. bucolicum, pl. bucolica, neut. of bucolicus: see I.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, or the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds: as, the bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
- n. A writer of pastorals.
- n. A countryman; a farmer: used humorously or in depreciation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
- n. a country person
- n. a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
- adj. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
I tallied up my day spent basking in bucolic bliss ... and realized how it all added up to good business!
We had a perfect ceremony on a covered bridge in bucolic upstate New York, which was followed by a fun and lively reception filled with the best of friends and — of course — Long Island wines.
The setup is simplicity itself: a small 19th century village tries to live in bucolic harmony and peace, while the surrounding woods bristle with unseen creatures.
"THE ISLE":: shocking art-house drama about sexual manipulation set in bucolic countryside.
With the help of his partner, Brent Ridge, known to fans as Dr. Brent on The Martha Stewart Show, they pack up their big city belongings from their small city apartment and a good chunk of their savings account to live the so-called bucolic life on the farm.
Annie Spiegelman: A Book About Escaping to Upstate N.Y. Is Just Like Walden , Only Campier!
These may not make a dent in the household budget of what Fearnley-Whittingstall describes as the "bucolic, rose-tinted world" of the River Cottage, but will impact heavily on those struggling in a tough economic climate to feed their families.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The former rodeo performer and announcer came to Palm Springs in 1927 and rented horses to tourists in the desert oasis known as a bucolic winter getaway for riding and hiking.
Dimock is a tiny town in the midst of green fields and sloping ridgelines -- the kind of bucolic countryside that drew me to this region over a decade ago.
Mark Ruffalo: Lessons from Dimock, PA: Calling for a Moratorium on Natural Gas Drilling in New York
In it, a writer's retreat in rural England provides the backdrop for a story that can mock both the pretentiousness of artists and the "bucolic" life in which kids trapped in small villages despair of anything ever happening.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Six and Seven: Biutiful is Beautiful and Jia is Beautifuler
Earlier this year I drove a black Audi A3 up into the hills of the Cévennes, that area of southern France that acts as a kind of bucolic refuge for Frenchmen and Frenchwomen who never really adapted to the failure of their 1968 dreams.
Born in Appalachia,
he now lives in the city
--and attends bucolics anonymous...
I couldn't agree more skipvia! Whenever my mother uses this word she always sighs saying, "Ahhh, that scene is just so bucolic," and all I can think of is someone barfing in a pasture.
Skipvia may be intested in the citation on salinity.
The actual meaning of this word is exactly the opposite of what it implies. It has always sounded like someone throwing up to me.
derives from Greek boukolikos , "rustic; pastoral," from boukolos, "a cowherd; a herdsman" from bous, "a cow; an ox."
And also from the Indo-European gwou, the Latin root is bos which we get bovine from.


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and one more thing...
ha! love it. have a super Thursday! :)
Great layouts.
I love it. great job
Fun pages, Jen! The cloud stamp is perfect on your storm chaser page.
I love these pages. The background paper and the embellishment enhance the setting for the photos and don't compete for attention. Great job.
Awesome layouts!!
Awesome, awesome layouts!!
cool! I love the soccer layout!
I love all your cool details..i always take a moment to study your layouts so I don't miss any of them! Great use of the kit!!
These smak images look fun in your layouts. Great accents for sure. :)
Love your scrapbook pages Jen!
Such fun pages! Thank you.
Awesome layouts! I need to get back into scrapbooking.
Those are fun layouts :)
Awesome layouts. I love the story about Abby. Super cute
Great layouts.
These layouts are precious! Great use of the stamps!
I'm not big on scrapbooking but yours is amazing. I love this.
I love the layouts, especially the clouds for the storm-chasers!
Great layouts! I like how you always use plain kraft paper and use the stamps to make the background.
SMAK kit is really awesome and how apt for your layout.
LOVE your layouts! Beautiful!
Great layouts!
Great pages. Great use of the EPIC stamp.
Cute layouts! TFS!
So cute! LOVE that first layout - and the cloud background tucked in there!
Great LO's! Love the clouds on your storm chasers layout, they're perfect! :-)
Super layouts! Love how you used the numbers stamp and then colored in the number 1, love that idea! TFS
Always awesome layouts!!! Fun stuff, Jen.
Cute layout. Love the SMAK kits stamps
Your scarp pages are wonderful.
Awesome layouts!
So great to see the stamps used on your layouts (since I've only used my stamps on cards).
Love these Jen!!
Great use of those SMAK stamps! Awesome layouts!
I just love your simple and bold scrapbooking style. Wonderful pages!
awesome LO...
Awesome layouts. I love the stamped clouds and the word EPIC stamps is to cute.
Great scrap pages! Very inspiring!
The clouds stamp is fantastic! Loved how you used it for your layout.
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Midweek Lunch Club
2 Courses for £10.95, 3 Courses for £13.95 – Served Monday – Friday 12 noon until 5pm.
Thursday Steak Night
Receive a FREE bottle of House red or White wine with every two Steaks ordered.
Friday Fish & Fizz
Continuing our ever popular Friday Fish & Fizz nights every Friday from 6-10pm.
All Day Sunday Roasts
Served every Sunday from 12 – 10pm.
Thursday Steak Night
Friday Fish & Fizz
Sunday Lunch
Midweek Lunch Club
A Warm Welcome to The Shrewsbury Arms
Fantastic food in a cosy, relaxed atmosphere.
The building, on the edge of the village of Albrighton, in Wolverhampton has stood proud for many years, opposite the beautiful St Mary Magdelene church. A warm and cosy feel greets you the minute you step inside this amazing building, and you know you are in for a treat.
With a menu that boasts some of the finest fresh and local produce around and a team that has been handpicked for their experience, enthusiasm and sharing our passion for good service and food, we genuinely believe that this once tired but much loved pub, has quite firmly been put back on the map.
With a selection of worldly wines, and a menu that makes even the most discerning palate water, The Shrewsbury Arms serves food all day, every day from 12 noon. With food served in the bar, the restaurant or the garden, the relaxed and welcoming atmosphere means that you can enjoy your experience, whatever the occasion.
The Shrewsbury Arms is a family run restaurant and pub offering fresh, locally sourced food in a relaxed atmosphere.
Fantastic food for every pallet and mood.
From snacks and sharing platters...
...to main courses and desserts.
All our ingredients are fresh and locally sourced.
With specials offers and new dishes created regularly.
Our desserts will tempt...
..and our hand-picked team will make sure your visit something special.
The perfect place for a great meal, or a relaxing drink.
With a fantastic menu created from fresh, locally sourced ingredients, ample parking and a family friendly atmosphere, The Shrewsbury Arms is the perfect place to relax with family and friends, enjoy a great meal or celebrate that special event.
- Spacious garden area
- Ample Car parking
- Dogs welcome
How to find us:
The Shrewsbury Arms is located in Albrighton, near Wolverhampton.


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Solutions for Brokers
Broker-focused. Since 1969.
MGIS has enabled brokers to significantly increase sales, retention, and credibility with medical professionals.
We are broker-focused. We've built our business around helping brokers achieve success and that hasn't changed in over four decades.
Let's work together to build something special.
Broker Sales Program
Grow with a Leader
In 1969 we opened our doors for business and began working exclusively with select brokers, enabling them to significantly increase sales and credibility with medical-professional clients.
Today our broker-focused approach remains the same, as does our commitment to providing the industry's best products along with the highest closing and retention ratios.
Success with MGIS means confidence that you are providing physician and dentist clients the best income protection options available on the market. With expert sales support, specialty experience, and one of the highest retention rates in the industry, you can be assured that both your clients' and your own income will be well taken care of.
Offer Your Clients a Full Range of Strong Options:
- Financial strength
- Legendary service
- Track record of serving medical professionals
- Multiple lines of insurance
- Strong industry reputation
Leverage our Experience
Over the years we've helped thousands of brokers significantly increase their sales in the medical-professional marketplace. How? We've done it through proven products and the highest closing and retention ratios in the industry. Brokers who work hand in hand with MGIS achieve close ratios that are significantly higher than average.
What about retention rates? Another home run. Our rates exceed 90%, the highest average in the industry.
Driver's Seat
When it comes to unmatched products and service that deliver the protection physicians expect, MGIS puts you in the driver's seat. Backed by carriers that offer impeccable financial strength and stability, we provide "A+" rated products designed specifically for physicians. Our pricing is competitive, so clients can enjoy the benefits of these outstanding products at a great price. Plus, you can enjoy these other advantages:
- We've built a successful business around a service model that's all about our nationwide broker network.
- We sell exclusively through brokers (not around them) and we wouldn't have it any other way.
- We understand the needs and pressures that come with selling and servicing physician insurance products—we can help you drive new business.
- Our service is world-class, according to decades of brokers and customers.
Cool Tools
We support brokers before, during and after the sale with joint marketing materials, co-branded selling tools, web resources and more. By backing brokers throughout the sales process, we help make their professional lives just a bit less complicated. Our broker-first commitment and no-hassle business processes free brokers to focus on growing their businesses, instead of doing paperwork. We know, that's pretty cool.
You're the expert. We're the specialists.
If you are a broker selling in the physician market—or if you are looking to expand that direction—then you will appreciate having a trusted partner by your side..
At MGIS, we work exclusively with expert brokers who help their physician clients choose the best insurance solutions. Why?
- They understand physician-specific insurance needs.
- They understand the unique features of specialized, built-for-physician insurance policies.
As an MGIS broker, you don't have to be a Group LTD specialist because that's what we do. We can provide you with expert policy and cost analysis, and we'll help you present our products to your clients and prospects. So you can expand your expertise by focusing on new sales and building relationships.
A Better Partnership
With years of successful experience working with dynamic brokerage firms and benefit advisors across the country, we recognize the value of strong relationships between companies like MGIS and key producers. As a valued benefit advisor, you can count on the competitiveness of our superior products designed specifically for physicians and their practices.
More Business
Many brokers use the MGIS Group LTD product to open the door—or break it down—to medical practice clients. Once you have an established client, you can offer other solutions from your firm's suite of products.
Let us help you educate your physician clients and prospects about Group LTD. From there, you can do what you do best.
Contact Us
Whether you have a question about your commission payment or need targeted marketing assistance, our team is here to help.
Broker Services
You can reach us at 800.969.6447 ext. 265 or email@example.com.
Partnerships That Make a Difference
If you can appreciate the importance of having a business partner and teammate who offers premier products, values your front-lines role in the sales process, and demonstrates serious staying power in an up-and-down healthcare market, then teaming up with MGIS makes perfect business sense. Here's why:
- Our programs are designed to ensure that your physician clients get the needed income replacement and claim management support they need.
- Our specialized team is knowledgeable, experienced, and most of all, committed to protecting your clients and everything they've earned.
- We believe each customer is unique and deserves our individual attention. You can expect frequent communication as our highly specialized staff works to provide the needed support for your clients through times of loss.
Speaking of the power of teamwork. MGIS products are backed by industry-leading carriers who deliver impeccable financial strength and stability. With our carriers, you get what you expect: A+ strength, a premier insurance policy and expert service and claims teams.
As an MGIS broker, you can be confident that your clients are covered by specialty claims practices and the best insurance protection in the industry. Because we focus on what we do best, physicians and other medical professionals can focus on what they do best with the confidence in their coverage.
Staying Power
We're in it for the long haul
We've spent 45 years understanding and supporting brokers' needs, providing tools and support, web resources, industry exposure, updated systems and more.
We have the proven track record brokers can trust. With A+ rated partners and years of success, you can count on us to be here for you and your clients when it matters most. Carriers and competitors have come and gone in this market space, but MGIS has remained strong.
Today we continue to design and administer specialized group disability and medical-professional liability programs for physicians and other medical professionals.
Data: Physician Group LTD Specialists Close 2/3 of Cases Worked.
Curious how physician group LTD specialist are changing the conversation and achieving these incredible results?
A recent analysis of producer data revealed a rather shocking statistic: physician group LTD sales specialists close 8 times more cases on average than their generalist colleagues.
Subscribe to the High Percentage Selling Podcast to find out how.
Key findings about these specialists:1
- They close over 2/3 of cases they work; compared to 1/10 closed by generalists
- They achieve a 25-30% price premium over commercial LTD alternatives
- A recent analysis of producer data revealed a rather shocking statistic: physician group LTD sales specialists close 8 times more cases on average than their generalist colleagues. Read more to find out how…
Subscribe to part one of our Podcast Series and learn how you too can engage in High Percentage Selling.
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Are you close for a trip for two to the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah? Check out the leaderboard.
We are inviting our top four brokers and their guests to join us in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival in January 2015. Land among the top four and you and your guest will enjoy an unbelievable vacation that includes:
- 4 days and 3 nights at the Canyons Resort
- Airfare for 2
- Sundance Film Festival movie tickets
- World-class skiing
- Movie star sightings and more
If you have questions about the standings, contact Mark Harris, AVP of Broker Marketing Programs, directly at 800-969-6447, extension 284, or email@example.com.
Great event! Everyone was so nice and helpful.
Extremely well-executed.
Fun, laid-back, comfortable environment, low pressure.
Great opportunity to meet great folks!
Excellent trip hosted by a great team
A relaxing, well-planned event.
It was a phenomenal time filled with skiing, movies, good food, and great people!
MGIS is the best! Great hosts!
An experience I will remember forever. Thanks.
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Then came the TV series revolution, with more sophisticated scripts, each episode becoming less of an independent unit but one of the many building blocks in the narration of ever increasing complex plots. Skipping episodes was no longer an option, even more so given the cliffhanger of the last episode.
The first such series I remember were 24 and Lost.
I'm not going to list all my favorite shows, nor try to compare them or do any advanced analyses. I just wanted to share some visuals I created allowing quick summarization of the quality of a series, episode after episode, season after season.
Here is the visual for Friends:
The blue line displays the IMDB rating of the episodes within each season - notice the break between seasons and the gray vertical bars delimiting seasons. There is a lot of data represented, so I've added some summary stats at the very top of each season:
- the number at the very top is the average of the IMDB rating for all the episodes of the season. The color on a red-green scale compares the seasons to each other: the seasons with highest averages are green, those with worst ratings are red.
- the arrow under the season average represents the evolution of ratings within the season: if episodes tend to get better and better the arrow will point upwards and be green, if they get worse the arrow will point downwards and be red. If the ratings remain approximately average over the season a horizontal orange arrow is displayed.
Revisiting the Friends visual, we observe spectacular consistency in ratings over the ten-year period. The summaries on top allow us to see through the noise, and that seasons 8 and 9 were among the worst in average episode rating as well as the only two that got worse over the season. But the tenth and final season was the highest-rated one, and had a strong positive trend until the series finale.
Although not a huge fan, I had to look at the Simpsons' incredible run. The visual highlights the surprising drop and plateau of the season average starting around the ninth season.
Now looking at some of my favorite series:
I have to agree here that the first seasons of 24 were the best. I also love the way ratings evolve in the final season, when people had very low expectations and thought it would be the same old jack-bauer-aka-superman-prevents-nuclear-attacks-every-thirty-minutes but soon realized this was Jack Bauer on a revenge rampage without any rules.
Breaking Bad is the perfect example of the TV series that keeps getting better, throughout the seasons and throughout the years. Can't wait for the second half of the fifth season!
The last few seasons of Dexter aren't rated as high as the first ones, but ratings remain high.
I loved the first season of Prison Break but clearly it should have been a one-season series, you jsut couldn't top the suspense and originality.
Game of Thrones started really high but just kept getting better à-la-breaking-bad. The seesaw effect in the third season is rather impressive!


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Braised Sea Cucumber, Woodear Mushrooms 红烧海参黑木耳
It eases joint pain. It reduces arthritis pain. It is high protein food, and almost has no (or low) cholesterol. Dad loves it and Mom does not mind it. Throughout my observations these years, older generation typically appreciate this delicacy, more so than youngsters. My elder brothers dislike it, just like most of my friends. They will not eat it at all.
Well...me? I don't mind. My taste buds are easy to tame. I actually enjoy it especially when it cooked well to perfection. In the school of love, this can be described as soft pillowy almost melt-in-your-mouth, not anywhere near slimy as many in the school of hate might claim.
Ol' Mighty Sea Cucumber. You big fat slug. And since you aid wound healing, I should eat you more often (in view of my injury) and eat you now.
Of course I did not cook this Braised Sea Cucumber, Woodear Mushrooms 红烧海参黑木耳. I don't even know where to buy sea cucumber in the US. But my friend saw the frozen version in the Asian supermarket one day and decided to cook it (so I get a chance to try it too!)
Typically sea cucumber 海参 come in dried form and have to be soaked for 12 hours or more.That is why they are usually served in special banquets with advanced order required. In Singapore, my family usually enjoy sea cucumber once a year - during Chinese New Year, when the sea cucumber will be cooked together with other vegetables in a soup. Then a scene of "pass the parcel" - my brothers will pick out all the sea cucumber in their bowls of soup, and these sea cucumbers land themselves in my parents' bowls. I just eat my share, diligently! Good girl! HA!
These frozen versions were much easier to prepare since they do not have to be soaked for days. However, according to my friend, they do need some cooking time (to braise) before the sea cucumber turns soft. Here, she cooked it with some ginger and green onions braised with woodear mushrooms. It was a success in my opinion and I even told her it was restaurant-quality level.
Sea cucumber, a cartilagenous body, is a rich source of mucopolysaccharides, mainly chondroitin sulfate, that helps builds collagen and cartilage (no wonder it is good for easing joint pain and wound healing). Sea cucumber also nourishes the blood and strengthen the kidney.You can read more about sea cucumber, its uses and benefits (including health benefits) at the Livestrong.com website.
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It was a quiet Thanksgiving this year, but that didn't stop me from making WAY too much food. Evidence:
Now the obligatory what I am thankful for:
My beautiful daughters who keep me laughing on a daily basis. I love to see how excited they are about Christmas this year.
My wonderful husband who found me such a perfect Christmas gift that he could not wait and already gave it to me (it was a new camera lens)!
My mother who inspired my craftiness. I am also thankful that she spent Thanksgiving with us and was able to help us decorate for Christmas. She is a Christmas junkie (wonder where I get it from???)
My sister Julia and that she found the love of her life, Alya, all the way in Africa.
My sister Patty who is a free spirit and has the kindest heart.
My wonderful friend since age 12, Kelley, who always listens to me complain about my kids, while longing for kids of her own. (and knows me better than most people in the world)
My great friend, Tina, who takes the most beautiful photos of my kids and inspires me to be a better photographer. (and loves the Twilight series as much, if not more than me)
The rest of my extended family, in-laws and friends. I am so grateful to have an awesome support system.
That my husband and I are employed in this difficult economic time.
That we have a president who wants to make sure everyone has access to affordable health care.
The internet for allowing me to be inspired my so many artists all over the world.
Pumpkin Pie.
Christmas, an excuse to get the whole family together every year.
I will leave you with these photos of my girls pretending to be high fashion models taken with my new lens. Forgive any blurriness because it is a manual focus lens and we haven't quite gotten the hang of it yet. (Also, don't mind the funky photo effects above, just messing around in photoshop)
Sunday, November 29, 2009
3 comments:
- Leslie said...
thanks for coming to my blog, saying hello and entering the giveaway. good luck
- December 4, 2009 at 10:27 PM
- christine said...
Awww, I'm thankful for you and your fam too. BTW, we need a card game sometime soon so we can reclaim our Euchre supremacy.
- January 13, 2010 at 9:14 PM
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Everything you need should be here
There's a lot more to Broomhill than meets the eye. We have gathered together on this page a sort of index to help you find your way around the web site.
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Buick Riviera T-Type factory turbo charged rebuilt engine not lowrider Regal
Price: - Item location: Bakersfield, California, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: Buick
- Model: Riviera
- SubModel: T-Type
- Type: Coupe
- Year: 1985
- Mileage: 85,117
- VIN: 1g4ey5790fe428044
- Color: Tan
- Engine size: Buick
- Number of cylinders: 6
- Power options: Air Conditioning, Cruise Control, Power Locks, Power Windows, Power Seats
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Au
- Drive type: FWD
- Interior color: Tan
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1985 Buick Riviera T-Type1985 Buick Riviera T-typeOne of only 1069 made that yearThis lovely original car came with a factory turbocharged V-6 231 engine 200 horsepowerequipped with factory finned aluminum valve covers and factory Gt style steering wheel and factory mag wheelsEngine was recently rebuilt costing over $4500
Factory all steel roof-notvinyl covered so no rot which usually occurs as a result of the soft topCurrently licensed and tagged!
Car is in excellent original condition, nterior andexterioris clean and in nice original shape (see photos)Power windows, oors, eat, emote mirrors-all the Buick Rivieraluxuriesgarage kept, uns and drives nice.
exterior paint is in in great shape, o damage or issues anywhere, o rustInterior has one small spot on seat and dash has 3 cracks. Really in nice original shape.
This is an auction to buy the car, lease bid to win and ask any questions prior to bidding. I have described the car to the best of my ability but I am no expert on these, have posted lots of photos.
Full payment due within 7 days, f end of auction. $500 deposit due within 48 hours.Delivery within California possible for reasonable pricecan also deliver to Docks in Los Angeles for reasonable price
Selling full shop manuel in another auction.


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Porous plastics are used in several niche sound and acoustic applications such as wind and debris screens or sound wave manipulation for microphones; backflow air dampers or protective screens for speakers; vents and sound isolators for headphones; and general sound dampening for industrial and consumer applications. With the ability to customize the shape, porosity, and base material and additives within our products, very specific results are possible.
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Chicago Fire
Chicago Fire Foundation
The Chicago Fire's goal on the field is to play hard and win. Its goal off the field is to contribute to the quality of life in Chicago and its surrounding communities. Through the Chicago Fire Foundation, the Fire is able to give back to the community by developing programs that reach out to Chicagoland's community. Since 1998, the Chicago Fire Foundation, the charitable arm of the Chicago Fire Major League Soccer team, has made significant contributions to enhance the lives of disadvantaged youth throughout Chicagoland. Each year, the Chicago Fire Foundation renews its commitment to improve the quality of life for youth and communities throughout Chicagoland by promoting health and wellness, education and the environment. The Foundation also supports organizations that share this vision so as to further extend the investment needed to make a meaningful impact on the lives of our children. The Chicago Fire Foundation is a non-profit organization that helps the Chicago Fire contribute to the community through grants and contributions. With great pride, the Foundation has contributed more than $1.5 million to the Chicagoland community since its inception in 1998. This outstanding achievement gives the Chicago Fire Foundation even more reason to set its sights on grander projects for the future. Learn more.
Colorado Rapids
Kroenke Sports Charities
Kroenke Sports Charities works to fill the needs of our community through support of education and recreation initiatives for under-served children and families. Kroenke Sports Charities supports children and families throughout Colorado. We pledge our resources to help fill the needs of many through support of education and recreation initiatives, appearances and sports clinics by players and coaches, donations of autographed merchandise and tickets and the gift of service by our employees. Learn more.
Columbus Crew SC
Crew SC Foundation
The Crew SC Foundation utilizes soccer as a vehicle to serve at-risk youth through education, field development and healthy lifestyles. Our core areas of philanthropic focus are: literacy and scholarships; soccer field creation, refurbishment and programming in underserved communities; and heart disease risk and prevention, concussion awareness and childhood obesity. Learn more.
D.C. United
D.C. United Foundation
The D,C, United Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 chartiable organization committed to bringing the international power of soccer directly to D.C. area inner-city communities. Through our local and national corportate partners, fan-base, governmental agencies, and our own fundraising efforts, the D.C. United Foundation is committed to continuing to reach over thousands of children each year and contribute over $1 million dollars to the chartiable need of our Nation's Capital. Learn more.
FC Dallas
FC Dallas Foundation
The FC Dallas Foundation is focused in three areas: build future soccer professionals; promote healthy, active children; and support disadvantaged youth. We would like to build Future Soccer Professionals by offering referee scholarships to teens ages 14 to 18. The FC Dallas Foundation seeks to Promote Healthy, Active Children by our involvement with fitness initiatives aimed at spotlighting childhood obesity. The FC Dallas Foundation is committed to Supporting Disadvantaged Youth through activities such as Kicks for Kids, the FC Dallas Community Clinics and Community Development through Field Development. Learn more.
Houston Dynamo
Dynamo Charities
Dynamo Charities is the charitable arm of the Houston Dynamo. We believe in using the power of the Dynamo and the sport of soccer to support our community. Dynamo Charities enhances lives through a variety of programs and initiatives. Focus areas include: Childhood obesity prevention through physical fitness, nutrition education and healthy lifestyle enrichment activities; college or continuing education scholarships for high school athletic program participants; and strengthening our communities through support to social service organizations and schools with emphasis on disease education prevention. Our mission statement is to utilize the sport of soccer and the resources of the Dynamo organization for the enhancement of a higher quality of life for the people in the greater Houston area. Learn more.
LA Galaxy
LA Galaxy Foundation
The Los Angeles Galaxy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to helping children through education, health and soccer based initiatives and programs. With your support, the LA Galaxy Foundation will continue to support organizations and activities dedicated to encouraging, educating and empowering the children in our community. Learn more.
Montreal Impact
Since 1993, the Montreal Impact is actively involved in the community and has development partnerships with various organizations over the years. The team supports and encourages causes that revolve primarily around the well-being and development of children. The Impact has opted to support and encourage causes that revolve primarily around the quality of life for children by addressing needs in the fields of leisure, health and education. Learn more.
New England Revolution
New England Revolution Charitable Foundation
The purpose of the New England Revolution Charitable Foundation is to assist a variety of charitable organizations and programs by supporting their educational, family and health initiatives. In particular, the Revolution will attempt to target our activities specifically towards youth programs and programs with close ties to the game of soccer. The New England Revolution Charitable Foundation is the nonprofit organization through which the Revolution support charitable and philanthropic organizations throughout New England. This support comes in the form of both direct grants and in-kind donations of tickets and Revolution memorabilia used at charity fundraisers and through a select number of player appearances at charity functions and educational programs. Learn more.
New York City FC
New York City Football Club was born from a commitment to the community, which began in 2010 with East Harlem's Lexington Academy. The syntheric grass rooftop field provided the first of its kind in Manhattan and continues to provide football opportunities to the elementary school and its students. The field is just one part of the story; as the Club grows, so does its community work. City in the Community's (CITC) is developing its outreach program using football to empower the most in need young people across New York City. Learn more.
New York Red Bulls
The New York Red Bulls support the community through the Kicks for Kids program, player appearances and donations.The Kicks for Kids programs began in 1996 in an effort to assist Major League Soccer teams with reaching out to various local charities that serve at-risk and disadvantaged children. The New York Red Bulls also offer the opportunity to meet your favorite New York Red Bulls players at various community and youth soccer events through the tri-state areas. The New York Red Bulls make numerous donations each month to non-profit organizations across the tri-state area in order to assist non-profit organizations holding an event to benefit your cause. Learn more.
Orlando City SC
Orlando City Foundation
The Orlando City Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 non-proft organization committed to improving the lives of children in our Central Florida community. We believe in using the sport of soccer and the powerful influence of the Orlando City organization to promote exercise and healthy eating with children and families in our community and inspire them to reach their full potential. Orlando City takes great pride in our active role in the community harnessing the cooperation of our players, staff, fans and community partners to make a difference in the lives of others. Learn more.
Philadelphia Union
Philadelphia Union Foundation
The Philadelphia Union Foundation provides opportunities for children through the power of relationships to offer transformational change in the areas of education, community, health and recreation. The Philadelphia Union Foundation believes the 21st century presents enormous challenges to youth in our cities. The Foundation will use soccer as a conduit for change by reinforcing the traditional family values of honesty, integrity, effort and accountability. It is our aim to have a positive impact on these children with respect to their character development, academic performance and physical well-being. We want to help develop the young children of today as potential soccer players, but more importantly as people with healthy minds and bodies. Learn more.
Portland Timbers
Portland Timbers Community Fund
The Portland Timbers Stand Together mission is to harness the power of sport to improve the lives of children and families in our region through targeted programs, deep partnerships and philanthropic giving. The Portland Timbers Community Fund (PTCF), an advised fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, supports charitable, non-profit organizations that are registered as 501(c)3 with tax-exempt status from the IRS and are located within one of the four surrounding counties of the Portland metro area; Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas and Clark County in SW Washington.Grant seeking organizations must fall under one of the following areas of focus: youth education, youth sports, youth health and fitness, environmental awareness and activism with youth and families. Learn more.
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake supports the community through appearances from players and their mascot, Leo the Lion, as well as donation requests. Real Salt Lake also established the Heroes Among Us program that honors everyday people who have made a positive impact to improve the lives of others. Learn more.
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Øystein Olaf Sunde (born 24 January 1947, in Oslo) is a Norwegian folk singer and guitarist. He is known for his high-speed guitar and banjo style and his satirical lyrics. Although often regarded as a comedian, Sunde is a versatile jazz guitarist who has played with several Dixieland bands and jazz combos over the years.
Early years[edit]
He was born 24 January 1947 in Oslo, but his family moved to Skarnes in 1954 where Sunde went to school. In 1955, the family moved back to Lambertseter in Oslo and Sunde continued school there. The same year he started playing piano, but he did not like this because he was forced to rehearse scales and partially because his teacher could play boogiewoogie and Sunde was not allowed to do so by his teacher. Despite protests from his parents he ended his piano playing career at the age of 7.
The next instrument Sunde played was a recorder but he started to cry after one hour, so he got a big grapefruit to comfort him, but after eating it he started to cry again. It was at this point his mother realized that he was not fit for playing this kind of instrument and later he started to play a B-Cornet. Even though Sunde did not quite find this instrument comfortable he played it for a few years mainly because he had failed so many times earlier.
When Sunde attended 6th grade his woodwork teacher made him make a mandolinlaika without any drawings. When finished, the instrument was too big but sounded magnificent. This was what caused Sunde to find music fun mainly because he was not forced to practice this instrument. Later Sunde bought a used guitar, and the mandolin was never used again.
In 1960 Sunde heard the song "Apache" played by The Shadows and he was "hooked". Later, at his confirmation, he got his first electric guitar. He dreamed of a Fender but it would take Sunde 11 years to get one. He also met one of his 'heroes' Chet Atkins in late 1971 who taught him some valuable lessons for 45 minutes.
Sunde attended the obligatory military service in the Norwegian Air Force base at Kolsås after basic training at Gardermoen. During his military training he wrote one of his hits "Fire melk og dagbla' for i går" on a boring night shift. After a while Sunde was allowed to postpone his military training to attend to "Schous Tekniske Institutt" for education. In 1969 he had to serve the remainder of his military training at Kolsås.
At the end of the sixties Sunde was working on an education as engineer. However, during a Norwegian class Sunde was bored and instead of paying attention he wrote one of his greatest hits, named "Jaktprat." "Jaktprat" is one of Øystein Sunde's most famous songs ever. Due to many positive responses to this song it was at this point in his life that Sunde realized that he was "on track" of something that he should continue doing.
After a successful cooperation with Mikkel Aas in late 1970 after releasing the LP "1001 Fnatt", who sold over 25000 copies, Sunde decided to drop education and work full-time as an entertainer.
The start of a career[edit]
In 1976, Øystein Sunde moved back to Skarnes with his wife Gudrun, where he could pursue his hobbies, like model airplanes and garden golf.
Øystein Sunde became a part of the musician social environment in the capital, and he could often be found at the singer's club Dolphins with talented people like Kari Svendsen, Lillebjørn Nilsen, Ole Paus, Finn Kalvik and Hege Tunaal. He has played in bands like Hitch-Hikers, Hi-Five, Christiania Fusel & Blaagress and Gitarkameratene (with fellow guitarists Lillebjørn Nilsen, Halvdan Sivertsen and Jan Eggum), and he has participated in matinées, but he gained most fame as a solo artist. His lyrics are often about everyday situations from his own life, like nappy changing and model airplanes. He has said that he cannot write a song that contains no comic element. Expressions like "kjekt å ha" ("nice to have") have entered the Norwegian everyday language.
His recordings also include several instrumentals, like the folk tune Fanitullen or the high-speed, technical Ned Vøringsfossen (Down the Vøringsfossen Waterfall) and Lynavleder'n and the challenging Kulingbarsel.
Andreas Diesen once described Sunde as "a master with words and a great musical talent". "When describing Øystein Sunde, I can quote André Bjerke, who once said about himself that he 'was into words'. Sunde sings about the German caravan on Norwegian roads or about artisans at their worst - all with a lot of irony."
Øystein Sunde was the first Scandinavian to receive a signature model series from C. F. Martin & Company.[1]
Sunde is by many considered one of Norway's finest guitarists, which has led to several myths about his skill. The most common is that Eric Clapton and/or Mark Knopfler is supposed to have said that Sunde is the world's best guitar player.[2][3] Evidence of this myth is non-existent and it is similar to another myth involving Phil Keaggy and Jimi Hendrix.
A handful of Øystein's songs are covers of other artists.
|Original Artist
|Original Songname
|Fordommens År
|Jack Yellen, George L. Cobb
|Alabama Jubilee
|Sett deg i armkroken min
|Flatt & Scruggs
|Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
|Kjepper i romhjula
|Roger Miller
|You Can't Rollerskate In a Buffalo Herd
|Det ække lett å værra kuul
|Shel Silverstein
|It Doesn't Pay to Be Hip
|Jerry Reed
|The Claw
|Jerry Reed
|Lightning Rod
|På kne over fisketorget
|Jerry Reed
|Jerry's Breakdown
|Jerry Reed
|Swinging 69
|Jerry Reed
|Woman Shy
|127 Vannrett
|Jerry Reed
|Stump Water
|De Hebraiske Alper
|Black Mountain Rag
|60 om da'n
|Roger Miller, Curley Putman
|Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit
|Åna Sira
|Louis Prima
|Buona Sera
|Hei, Henry Ford
|Dick Feller
|Lord, Mr. Ford
|Liten og grønn
|Steve Goodman
|The City of New Orleans
|Onkel'n til Per Erik
|The Beatles
|Lady Madonna
|Elvis Presley
|King Creole
|Sjåfør (Skynd deg hjem før det snør)
|Johnny Otis
|Willie and the Hand Jive
|Nå har'u fått meg
|The Kinks
|You Really Got Me
|En liten beta blues
|Jerry Reed
|A Little Bit of Blues
|Ikke no' spesielt sted å dra
|Chuck Berry
|No Particular Place to Go
- 1001 Fnatt (1970)
- Det året det var så bratt (1971)
- Som varmt hvetebrød i tørt gress (1972)
- Sunderfundigheter (1973)
- Ikke bare tyll (1974)
- Klå (1974)
- Hurtbuller i hvit saus (1975)
- På sangens vinger (1976)
- Øystein Sundes beste (1977)
- Hærtata hørt (1979)
- Barkebille Boogie (1981)
- I husbukkens tegn (1984)
- Overbuljongterningpakkmesterassistent (1986)
- Kjekt å ha (featuring Béla Fleck, recorded in Nashville) (1989)
- Øystein Sundes 40 beste (1990)
- Du må'kke komme her og komme her (1994)
- Nå er begeret nådd (1999)
- Sånn er'e bare (2005)
- Sundes Verden (2006)
- Meget i sløyd (2008)
- Sundes 5 første (2012)
- Bestefar (2016)
Books with lyrics and musical notes for his own songs[edit]
- Viser uten slips (1972)
- Kjekt å ha–1 (1990)
- Kjekkere å ha–2 (1992)
- Du må'kke komme her og komme her (1997)
- Sånn Er'e Bare (2005)
See also[edit]
- Ordentlig Radio – An Internet radio station with Norwegian music started by Sunde and others.
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Aberdeen University Gets OGIC Funding for Rock Mechanics Kit
The principal of Aberdeen University has said its selection by Scotland's Oil and Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) to receive $735,000 of rock mechanics equipment confirms the university's status as a leading energy research institution.
The university reported this week that it has taken delivery of high pressure/high temperature rock deformation apparatus from Sanchez Technology in France thanks to funding from OGIC. The kit can test rock and cement samples under conditions of extreme temperature and stress, replicating conditions deep beneath the sea floor.
By providing accurate data on the properties and the behaviour of rocks under such conditions, the equipment can aid exploration and production activity at depths far in excess of current drilling activity, according to a statement from the university.
Dr David Healy, from the university's School of Geosciences, commented:
"Taking the central North Sea as an example, operators have gone deeper and deeper and there are significant technical challenges to overcome as conditions become hotter and more pressurized.
"Operators can be reluctant to pursue these types of projects because of the costs and potential hazards involved, and this is especially true in the current climate.
"This apparatus can make a tangible difference by providing companies with accurate data about the properties and behaviour of the rock at depths of up to 10 miles, which is far deeper than current drilling activity.
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