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Here's a news flash I missed: "Secret sauce" isn't a secret anymore. Which should come as no surprise, I suppose, in the age of WikiLeaks. The only shocker is that Julian Assange didn't out the sauce himself from his sinister WikiLair in an abandoned Depends factory. I can see him rubbing his cadaverous hands together as he cackles, "So...the corporate clown thinks his sauce will stay a secret? Not if the Leaker has his way! Henchmen...to the internet!"
But no -- Assange can focus on revealing Colonel Sanders' "11 herbs and spices" or uncovering the "ancient Chinese secret" behind those super-clean shirts he gets from the Ecuadorian embassy laundry. Because the Daily Mail blew the lid off the secret sauce mystery way back in 2012. According to McDonald's Executive Chef Dan Coudreaut, the sauce splatted on Big Macs is made from "mayonnaise, sweet pickle relish and yellow mustard...whisked together with vinegar, garlic powder, onion power and paprika." (I hope the Daily Mail is now investigating an even bigger mystery: What does a McDonald's "executive chef" do with himself all day? Other than revealing proprietary information to dodgy English tabloids.)
So it turns out secret sauce isn't simply thousand island dressing, as so many of us had assumed. Nope. Look at those ingredients. It's thousand island dressing with some mustard. Which makes mustard the secret sauce in secret sauce. The more you know!
I was thinking about secret sauce this week because I just finished reading a novel that had a heapin' helpin' of it. Which would make a book a real pain to read, you might think. Thousand island dressing and mustard might bring a little zip to wafer-thin meat patties and sponge-like slices of bread, but try reading through the stuff. You'd need a fresh Wet-Nap, like, every two paragraphs. Only I'm talking about metaphorical sauce. A secret ingredient. A flavor that makes you pause and say, "Hmm...I wasn't expecting that to be in there."
I found that flavor in a surprising place: an obscure, long out-of-print (until recently) 1958 Western paperback called The Last Notch. I have a soft spot for Westerns, but I'll be completely honest with you, one reader to another. A lot of them are sauceless. Generic, bland. Big Macs without the sauce or even the pickles and onions. Meat and bread. Boring.
A lot, I said. Not all! It doesn't get any saucier than True Grit or Little Big Man or Lonesome Dove. And no one's gonna accuse Elmore Leonard and Joe Lansdale of being generic, bland and boring. The right writer can take any kind of story and make it unique and interesting. It's just that most writers of obscure 1958 Western paperbacks didn't really try.
But Arnold Hano did. The name on the cover of The Last Notch is Matthew Gant, but thanks to Scott Montgomery's Western/crime fiction website The Hard Word, where I first learned about the book, I know that Hano was the real author. And if you know who Hano is -- and I didn't until recently -- the fact that The Last Notch is anything but generic comes as no surprise.
In the '50s, '60s and '70s, Hano was a prolific writer of books and articles about sports and athletes. His 1955 book about a pivotal World Series game, A Day in the Bleachers, is still in print today. But the secret sauce in The Last Notch isn't that the good guys and bad guys settle their differences with a rousing game of baseball. Consider this: Hano was also an editor for the pulp paperback imprint Lion Books, where he worked closely with noir legends David Goodis and Jim Thompson.
A deep, dark streak of noir does run through The Last Notch. It's got a classic noir set-up, too: A hired killer who wants to escape his violent life takes on one last contract...but the intended target turns out to be the only person who could save him.
But you know what? We still haven't gotten to the novel's secret sauce. And I'm not going to tell you what it is, either. Part of the power of the book for me came from my surprise when it went somewhere Westerns almost never go. (But, hey -- I realize not everyone's as spoiler-phobic as me. If you want to know more about the plot of the book, check out Scott's review.)
I don't know why Hano decided to write a Western that was so dark and daring. I assume it wasn't something he did lightly: As an editor, he'd have known all too well that he was making his book less conventional, less commercial. But if he hadn't pulled the trigger (so to speak), I wouldn't have picked the book up six decades later, and I wouldn't know who Hano is today.
What makes The Last Notch special isn't just the noir and isn't just the twist. It's Hano himself -- a unique individual hidden in the pages of a paperback that looks like a thousand others.
Look inside, writers. The secret sauce is you.


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I watched an interesting documentary called Nanking last week. It's about the Japanese attack on the Chinese city of the same name. It's been called the Rape of Nanking, and with justification. The postwar commission that prosecuted Japanese war criminals estimated that over 200,000 civilians and unarmed prisoners of war were killed. In addition, it is estimated that something like 200,000 rapes occurred.
People get exercised about the atrocities committed in war, but what do they expect? You take a bunch of testostrone-soaked young men; you train and indoctrinate them to overcome the human reluctance to kill one's fellows; you give them and turn them loose. They're going to kill, and a lot of them are going to be quite enthusiastic about it. They aren't going to make a distinction between soldiers and civilians. See, shoot. That's what they were taught to do.
That said, the Japanese were particularly brutal. They regarded the Chinese as a kind of untermensch, and their warrior code said that one should fight to the death, that surrender was unacceptable. Hence, they regarded prisoners of war with nothing but contempt, and deserving of any abuse that was heaped upon them. That included summary execution. A lot of them were really into it too. The documentary showed a Japanese newspaper article, with an accompanying photo of two infantry lieutenants. It was a human interest piece about how the two men were having a contest to see who could first kill a hundred men with his sword. One man had already killed over fifty, the other over twenty. Now, these weren't deaths in battle. They were executions. In fact, there are several extant photographs showing Japanese officers beheading captives with their swords. No matter how high feelings ran in America during the war, no American newspaper ever would have run an article like that. It would have been unthinkable.
After watching Nanking, it's a bit harder to have sympathy for the Japanese killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It seems like a kind of karmic payback, but that's a petty sentiment. The fact is, if you want to prevent atrocities, then don't have wars. It's as simple as that. Wars should never be fought unless there is absolutely no other choice. As they say, no one who takes part in a war comes out undamaged, whether they were wounded or not. It's an inhuman activity. On that point, I read recently that the pilots of those unmanned aircraft that attack targets in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan are having an unusually large incidence of emotional problems. I suppose that they're more properly operators than pilots, since they aren't actually in the planes. They're far away in some safe base, and that's where the problem lies. They don't get the sense of being in battle, of participating in combat, so that many of them come to feel that they're merely executioners. I'm sure the military will soon adapt to that. All they have to do is recruit among those with psychopathic tendencies.
Here's an interesting side note from Nanking. It's based upon the letters and diaries of several Westerners who were on the scene and credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of Chinese by moving them into a safety zone that the Japanese authorities reluctantly allowed them to establish. Perhaps chief among these Westerners was a German businessman named Rabe. He was a Nazi, but he apparently didn't understand what his political comrades were up to back in the fatherland, because he was intensely disturbed by what the Japanese were doing, and did everything he could to prevent it. The Westerners managed to surreptitiously film some of the atrocities, and smuggle reels of the film to the outside world. When Rabe returned to Germany in 1940, he took a reel with him and showed it to Hitler. He was subsequently arrested and the film confiscated. The Gestapo interrogated him, and released him with the warning that he was not to discuss Nanking with anyone. After the war, the Soviets also arrested and interrogated him. Not long after, the mayor of Nanking learned that Rabe was living in poverty. He collected thousands of dollar, mostly from people who Rabe had helped, and flew to Germany to present it to him. It's proof that there is goodness in the world, though it appears all to infrequently.

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As a teacher, one of my jobs is to find the one thing a child does all day that is remarkable. It has been my philosophy that for a child, each and every day they are learning something and therefore, in a 9 hour period no matter the child, at least one amazing thing would have happened. With this theory, I usually find wonderful moments that I can write down and share with parents so they can hold onto a piece of the growth of their child while they are out supporting their family.
Today, it dawned on me that as adults we don't usually credit ourselves for having at least one remarkable moment a day. An accomplishment, a realization, a new skill learned...anything. As a teacher getting through the day without removing a child from the group is an accomplishment in itself, however, we never praise ourselves. We as adults rarely (if ever) pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. Sometimes in a time when so much is changing, and the world is not as it used to be, we should remember that we have the power to make a difference, a difference for ourselves and those that are closest to us. We have the ability to make the necessary changes in our lives and our minds. We need to remember that we are just as important as those around us, and if we don't highlight our own importance than it will be impossible to count on others around us to do it. Throughout my day, working with the most remarkable children I have had the pleasure of meeting, there are many accomplishments for them. In turn however, there are also many accomplishments for me. Skills I acquire, Talents I have, my memory even is a tribute to me. The more I learn. The more I do. The more I find ways to change and grow as a person which allows me to find the strength to better myself and the world around me.
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Motherwell FC chairman Brian McCafferty has revealed that fans can now join the club's Well Society for as little as £5 a month.
The 'Well supremo (67) is keen to get as many people as possible to sign up for the scheme, to keep alive the long term aim of complete fan ownership.
"Brian said: "We carried out a survey about 18 months ago and we had about 1200 respondents, 700 of whom said they would like to join the Society but they couldn't afford it.
"So that's why we did away with the original model asking people to pay at least £300 up front. That is why we reduced it to £10, to make it affordable for folk.
"But following up those indiduals on the telephone, they were still saying they couldn't afford it because they were out of a job or had other commitments.
"So that is why we have now said to those people and anyone else that they can join for a fiver."
Motherwell FC owner Les Hutchison has previously warned that the fan ownership plan could be in serious jeopardy unless significantly more supporters sign up.
The Barbados-based philanthropist acquired John Boyle's majority stake in January after putting forward an interest free loan to the club. The intention is for that shareholding to be transferred to the Well Society via repayment of the loan within a five-year period.
But that could be in serious doubt unless more Motherwell fans come on board soon.
Although the Well Society currently has around 1650 members, only a small fraction of these are thought to have signed up for the direct debit.
It works out that the members are only putting an average of £5 a month into the club, hence the major recruitment drive.
By the end of December, Hutchison wants to reach the target of 2000 members contributing an average of £10 a month.
Brian added: "The more money we get in, the quicker we can conclude the agreement. We can provide support for the club on a regular basis.
"I'm positively hopefully that we can reach 2000 members by the end of the year.
"It's part of the strategy that the club has established that it wants to be a fan owned, community centred football club.
"It's a model that we believe is worth pursuing.
"As a football club, we are keen to be a pillar of the community.
"We do a lot for the community. The community trust is an exemplary organisation that is part of the club."
Brian said that, should the target figure of 2000 not be reached by the end of December, the club's hierarchy would "keep on trying".
"Two thousand is our initial target. We have a five-year agreement which we're less than a year into."
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A pomegranate tree bears delicious seeded fruit as well as gorgeous five-petal flowers ranging from white to blood red. While fruitless varieties are grown as ornamental plants for their beautiful flowers and foliage, the pomegranate fruit is cultivated extensively in many parts of the Middle East and Europe as a food crop. The reddish pomegranate fruit is approximately 2 to 5 inches in diameter and has a round shape with hexagonal features. Fixing a pomegranate to eat is a simple and straightforward process. Rich flavorful arils, small seeds with a colorful cover, are the delicious reward.
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De-seed a pomegranate by washing it thoroughly under clear running water. It is necessary to cut through the cover to remove the seeds and the knife will transfer any contamination on the outside to the inside.
Remove the crown, or top of the pomegranate, by cutting off the top 1/2-inch of the fruit.
Set the pomegranate on the cut end so it is stable on a cutting board and use a sharp knife to make a cut through the cover all the way around the middle of the pomegranate.
Make four cuts through the cover equidistant apart on the pomegranate from top to bottom.
Submerge the pomegranate in a bowl of water for 15 to 20 minutes.
Break open the pomegranate and place it back into the water. The soft white membrane and seeds will float.
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An economical and reliable DC circuit breaker for DC voltage > 3.5kV is not commercially available today. The lack of such a breaker has been inhibiting the development of DC power distribution in factories (especially processing plants with many variable speed motors); for microgrids (including on ships, oil platforms, and wind farms), and for multiterminal HVDC power transmission, as in the supergrid.
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Presentation to the International Symposium on Electrical Insulation 2012
My co-authored paper with Clay Taylor of MSU "Determination of Optimum Resistor Sequence in a Ballistic Breaker" will be presented today by Clayborne Taylor, Junior of Mississippi State University (MSU). I was not able to attend this conference myself, and I am very thankful to Clay for traveling to Puerto Rico to make this presentation.
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At four months pregnant, you're finally starting to look like you're expecting and didn't just polish off too many fish tacos, your hair is full and shining and you're comfortable sharing the news. Welcome to the best part of your pregnancy; if you're ever going to radiate that pregnancy glow, this is it… now, um, what's that terrible pain in your chest?
• Hopefully your morning sickness has improved a bit and you're able to enjoy the best part of pregnancy: The eating. Remember that weight you lost from puking round the clock? You get to make up for it now.
• Say hello to new symptoms called heartburn and vaginal discharge! They aren't going anywhere, so get used to them. Your feet may also begin swelling and be unable to fit into those amazing new shoes you just bought on sale. The bad news: They may never return back to their previous size. The good news? Shopping spree!
• You'll probably be sent for your first ultrasound this month. What that really means is you will be subjected to the cruel joke of asking a pregnant woman to drink a shit-ton of water, and hold it for over an hour. But you'll get your first glimpse of you baby, making it one of the best parts of pregnancy.
Scary Mommy Tip: Now's a good time to back away from Pinterest. Though it's tempting to create board after board of perfect ideas, you'll make yourself crazy trying to keep up with the most creative and newest trends. Besides, there's no prize for best baby announcement EVER or most creative gender reveal. And, really, nobody else cares about that stuff nearly as much as you do.


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Devonport is a small seaside village settled on Auckland bay, just in front of the city: you can reach it by boat or by car passing across a bridges. Since the images are taken in winter the streets are quite sleepy, but in summer the atmosphere is more lively. You can find photos of the bay taken from the hill of the hamlet.
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I've been out and about this past week and haven't really had much time to write... You know how things start to fall into routine and you unintentionally totally neglect something like flossing or calling your mother? This blog is turning into one of those things.
It's reeeaaallyy hard to believe that I've been here for a whole month already. Yet, I've only written a post a few times. Tsk, tsk, McKenna Lee.
Don't worry, guys. Nothing much has happened on the home front. (Well, except for getting two flat tires in the span of a couple of days, but yeah.) It's the middle of winter here and I've felt really unmotivated to go on any kind of adventures that involve the outdoors. I have been spending a good chunk of my paycheck on checking out new cafes, so hey, at least there's that. (AllPress coffee is to die for, by the way. Just thought you should know.)
Here's a little peek into the life of McKenna Lee this past week or so:
|The view from my room is PER-FECT.
|While y'all are getting summer tans, I have to scrape ice off my car in the mornings.
|When you find a chocolate bar... :):):):):):):):):)
|*a million angry face emojis plus a few sobbing ones thrown in for good measure*
|homemade pizza + a glass of Rose = one happy McKenna Lee
|This plant is growing in the backyard... SO. WEIRD.
Welp. That's about it. Basically: it's cold. I drink a lot of coffee. (And probably too much wine.) The plants here are weird.
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For the first time, in Wandry v. Commissioner, the Tax Court approved a defined value formula clause without a charitable component. In this federal gift tax case, the Tax Court determined, in a memorandum opinion, that the taxpayers' respective defined value gift clauses were enforceable under state law, were defined value gifts of LLC membership interests instead of gifts of percentage interests and, thus, were to be respected for federal gift tax purposes.
Albert and Joanne Wandry ("Petitioners") and their children formed Norseman Capital, LLC ("Norseman"). The Petitioners wanted to make gifts to their children and grandchildren using their annual exclusion and lifetime exemption amounts, so they consulted a tax attorney to begin a gift-giving program. On January 1, 2004, the Petitioners transferred gifts of specific dollar amounts of membership units in Norseman to their children and grandchildren. The gift documents stated that if the IRS challenged the eventual valuation of the units, the capital accounts would be adjusted so that the number of units transferred equaled the specified values. An independent appraiser determined the value of the LLC and the Petitioners' CPA used the appraisal to report the number of units transferred on the Petitioners' gift tax returns. However, the IRS determined that the values of the gifts exceeded the Petitioners' Federal gift tax exemptions and issued a deficiency notice on February 4, 2009.
The Commissioner (the "Respondent") argued before the court the following four points: (1) the gift descriptions on the gift tax return were admissions that the Petitioners transferred fixed Norseman percentage interests to the donees; (2) Norseman's capital accounts controlled the nature of the gifts and their capital accounts were adjusted to reflect the gift descriptions; (3) the gift documents transferred fixed Norseman percentage interests to the donees and the adjustment clause was not effective; and (4) the adjustment clause was void as against public policy.
The Court ruled in favor of the Petitioners stating the following on each point respectively: (1) Petitioners used specific dollar amounts to describe the gifts and their consistent intent and actions proved that the dollar amount gifts, rather than specific percentages, were always intended; (2) because the IRS has the ability to review the accuracy of capital accounts, such accounts are not final until the statute of limitations runs, thereby allowing the taxpayer to make a similar adjustment; (3) based upon the analysis set out in a similar case of Petter, the Court upheld the validity of a value formula clause because the "ascertainable dollar value of the stock" transferred was a fixed set of rights, even though the units themselves had an unknown value; and (4) there is no public policy issue in this case because there is a mechanism outside of an IRS audit to ensure accurate reporting (ie each donee had a competing interest to make sure the transfer was accurate). The Court went on to further point out that it is "inconsequential" that the adjustment clause allocated units among the Petitioners and donees, rather than a charitable organization.
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ROSE HALL, St James — Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says that by the middle of June the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is slated to roll out a new website.
The project was made possible through a partnership with technology company Google, which specialises in Internet-related services and products.
Bartlett said the new website, which will be the most powerful website in the Caribbean, will be used to market and analyse the tourism industry.
"We will roll it out in the middle of June. It is costing just about $30 million to roll out that kind of a powerhouse of a website that will give us connectivity to all the big portals of the world and to do advertising ourselves, and to stream to destinations and to markets all across the world," Bartlett said.
"To be able to utilise big data and to create analytics around it, that will make us far more predictive in terms of customer response and [being] targeted in terms of specific market. Laser-like targeting, so that we go into South America, but we are not just crawling all over South America. We are going specifically to Leme, or we are going specifically for Buenos Aires, because that's where the energy is. That's where the energy is to be drawn from," Bartlett added.
"It is that new ability that we will have in the JTB to geo-market and to be able to be laser sharp in terms of our application, so we will use the dollar better, so we will be able to manage and measure our expenditure and returns," the minister explained.
Bartlett was giving remarks at the second staging of the Tourism Linkages Network's Smart Destination 2018 Workshop, which was held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James on Friday.
Head of public relations at Digicel, Elon Parkinson, who chaired the workshop and whose company was part of the Smart Destination Workshop, was excited about the minister's announcement.
"The minister's big $30-million project with Google is out. You will see how you can plug into that Internet of things, in terms of the streaming, the videos, all of that stuff that the millennials are going for," Parkinson told those in attendance.
"They want to see what the experience looks like. They want to be a part of it before they get here, so that when they get here, they get maximum value for the tourism dollar that they are spending," he added.
In the meantime, the minister said networks such as the Linkages Network and the Smart Destination Workshop, "have established Jamaica as the leading tourism country in the world for innovation".
And, for this reason, the minister said he has been invited to address Asian leaders this week on policy options on sustainable tourism development.
Friday's event took the format of workshops, with discussions led by technology-based companies specifically targeting small and medium tourism enterprises.
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I think Bikram Yoga would be a nono for me as I get intolerant and moody in heat above 80 degrees.
I am lucky to have a friend whom is a Yoga instructor and understand how Yoga can be very beneficial for a person's health.
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Yoga is one of those exercise styles that you don't get until you "get" it. People who consider themselves avid exercisers and use the outdoor terrain and gym as their primary locales to get fit (a.k.a. cardio junkies) often dismiss the restorative quality of yoga as passive.
While the approach to fitness is different than what they are used to (though some yoga fusions incorporate HIIT principles, such as XY) yoga can provide health benefits that other practices cannot. Flexibility and stretching are integral in many sports- the more limber you are the easier it will be to sprint and change direction. Professional athletes are beginning to see the benefits in adding yoga to their regimen, which is effecting a change in mindset across the fitness world.
If you already participate in a rigorous exercise routine, a more calming style of yoga is one to investigate. Calming your mind, lengthening your body, and restoring health to your overall structure are not as easy as you might think. Here are some practices that you should consider:
Kundalini yoga is invigorating but not because of the difficulty of the poses. This practices focuses on unleashing energy by providing a fluid string of movement. Holding poses is not easy by a long shot, though, and will require a dedication to legwork.
Iyengar yoga focuses on form above everything else. Body positioning and pose mastery are at the base of this style.
Often called Hot yoga, Bikram yoga takes you through a series of 26 posses that are repeated in succession. What makes this style unique is that the poses are performed in a room that is heated to over 100°. The heat combined with effort aids in weight loss.
This calming meditative style focuses on breathing, exercise, diet, a positive outlook on life, and relaxation. This practice actively boosts vitality and fosters a mind/body connection. There are twelve poses in Sivananda yoga. This practice is designed for those interested in more than just physical movement, but also in spiritual release.
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I think Bikram Yoga would be a nono for me as I get intolerant and moody in heat above 80 degrees.
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Just a note for future elections: Debates count. A lot! Far more than most people realize.
And the most recent poll by Signal / Toronto Star shows that even debates designed to avoid having millions of Canadians watch them, as our recent series were, count.
Here's a snapshot of voting preferences for the period August 30 until yesterday, with the time of each debate shown by a vertical line. In each and every area of the country, the debates moved the needle, but not to the same extent.
Let's start with the national polls - note the takeoff of Justin and the start of the downward trend of Mulcair:
Now let's see what happened in Ontario - note the significance of Justin's performance in the foreign policy and second French debates - these are the points when Harper lost Ontario
And in Quebec - the significant trend here is the Dog that did not bark in the night (that is, for those not familiar with Sherlock Holmes, the absence of any uptick in the steady downward trend of the Mulcair/NDP support since before August 30 - it's as if the debates just did not take place):
And the Liberal bastion of the Atlantic provinces:
And in the prairies - Justin takes off after the foreign policy debate, when he showed he was ready to govern over foreign events:
And in Battleground BC - the foreign policy debate kickstarted a steep rise in Justin's fortunes:
And the needle even moved in Tory Fortress Alberta - Justin moved ahead of Mulcair with the first debate, and kept increasing the gap:
And the needle even moved in Tory Fortress Alberta - Justin moved ahead of Mulcair with the first debate, and kept increasing the gap:
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My Current Home Grooming Setup And Why I Love It So Much
It's been mentioned in previous posts, but this site is a joint effort between me and Ryan. He's the true professional and has helped tremendously with some of my reviews here. You'll always see him giving a bit more in-depth advice, perfect for barbers or stylists.
Me, on the other hand? I'm your perfectly average home user with some diffuse thinning and a beard that needs to be taken care of thrown in the mix.
I got hooked on clippers and trimmers a few years ago and have experimented with quite a few models in my Average Self-Grooming Joe role.
It recently occurred to me that I haven't shown you what I currently use to keep my hair and myself properly groomed in my daily life. Time to change that and, who knows, you might find something that will work for you too?
Here's a quick snapshot of most of my home grooming setup and products:
This might seem like an overkill for some people and I admit I might have a little bit of a hoarding problem that is evident in my home grooming setup.
(Also yes, my mirror needs some cleaning. It's so darn dusty around here!)
Let's go through the two groups of products I use to make sure I'm neatly groomed and not a wandering caveman instead.
Chop-chop-chop that hair!
As you can see, the right corner consists of the various clippers and trimmers that help me stay fashionable. The top row looks like this:
These five awesome products are as follows:
1) Philips Norelco beard trimmer (furthest right)
2) Panasonic nose hair trimmer (middle)
3) Wahl Super Taper clippers (left)
Bottom row complements these with:
4) Andis T Outliner hair trimmer
5) Remington HC4250 cordless clipper
Honestly, you could easily cut this group of 5 products to only 3. For example, the T Outliner can be used for beard trimming as it's a great all-purpose trimmer anyways. Few people need two sets of hair cutters either.
I like having diversity, however, so I'm keeping all of these guys around. Here's why:
The HC4250 is ridiculously lightweight, small and easy to cut hair with. It's wider blade achieves professional buzzcuts in only a few minutes, as it covers a bigger surface.
Why I love it? I don't need to concern myself cords and with the usual clipper weight (around 1lbs) here. Remington HC4250 is designed to be convenient and give you a hassle-free buzzcut in as little time as possible.
It's my personal top cordless clipper and my HC4250 review speaks volumes about how much I treasure it for my home grooming setup.
This neat palm-sized machine, however, has an important drawback: it lacks the taper lever other cutters have. Without it, you can't layer your hair/texturize it for some cooler hair styles. Its wider design also can be tricky when you want to clean up around the ears properly.
That's why I'm keeping the Super Taper around. Easy to control hair length and taper things a bit, plus you can navigate around the ears with ease. That said, it's corded and weighs quite a bit, not to mention its vibrations and the heat after 10-15 minutes of use.
While I like this white-yellow-black baby, I tend to mainly use it as a complementary home tool right now due to these exact reasons. Also, it's not as diverse as what a Wahl Elite Pro kit might offer you.
As I mentioned, you can always ditch the Norelco beard trimmer and just groom your beard with a T Outliner. That's what I do quite often, actually.
However, sometimes I don't want to bother with oiling blades or cleaning them after a trimming session. The Norelco's always cordless with a great battery life, so when I want a quick, plugging-free beard action, I work with it.
That said, the T Outliner excels in every way possible. This is a professional tool you'll see in most barbershops. The blades are sharper, so it doesn't pull on your beard. You can feel the motor roaring with power and it's pretty awesome.
Going further on myhome grooming setup, the T liners (read our full review here) are also perfect for anything from sideburns to shaping that neckline or doing touchups. You can't do this with the Norelco, of course – or with the clippers either, actually.
That's why I love this grey-colored beast and Ryan recommends it as the go-to liners/edgers for barbers too:
The nose hair trimmer is pretty self-explanatory. I'm a hairier dude so sometimes those ugly little thick hairs make their appearance out of my nostrils.
Panasonic have pretty great nose/ear trimmer models and while the first time I took care of my nose hairs it felt weird, this quick ritual is an important part of my grooming routine right now.
Taking care of shaving and your skin
Cutting itself is half the task. If you groom yourself without taking measures to protect your skin, you're not going to have a great time. At all.
While my hair isn't as curly as the issue Ryan discusses in his article on shaving for black men: how curly hair is prone to bumps and ingrown hairs, I still have quite the sensitive skin.
There's a few important products which have helped me take care of keeping things soft and avoid irritation as much as possible:
It's actually exactly Ryan that recommended using witch hazel to me. It's miraculous. Whenever I shave to the skin, I grab some cotton pads, sprinkle this magic liquid on them and gently rub my face.
You'll be shocked to see how much such a simple routine can do for your razor burns/ingrown hairs or other skin irritations.
As far as cream goes, I found out Gillette/Nivea gels or shaving creams don't jive well with my skin. Instead, I'm getting special shaving soaps or medical creams and it's been working out great so far.
Sure, it might be a little bit more expensive, but I prefer that to itchy skin or constant red spots on my face.
The soap you use for washing your face is also pretty important, especially if your skin is prone to drying out, like mine.
Now, this also depends on the size of your beard, as you can always go with a special beard soap too. I'm keeping things to a neat trim at the moment, so a moisturizing bar for my skin that also softens my beard is my personal pick.
Again, this might run you a bit more expensive than your standard soap, but it's completely worth it. After all, it doesn't make sense to be perfect in your hair/beard grooming, but skip on protecting your skin, right?
If you have any questions about my grooming routine or want some recommendations, let me know in the comments below! Alternatively, look around the site – especially the home clippers reviews should get you on the DIY home grooming setup track fast enough 🙂


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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Possible Dream Late Model Cherokee
3 comments:
- Jim said...
I noticed you dropped by my blog. I've met you guys before out there. I'm hopping to be back out there during spring break. We are supposed to have a big 4-wheeling party then. Maybe see you guys then.
- February 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM
- Off Grid R and D said...
We are going the week before spring break, 3/3 - 3/10. No real plans except riding our side x side UTV exploring the Solitario part of TR. We would like to do some evening socializing at the Starlight and Ghost Town Saloon but usually have a decent buzz goin by dark and end up not going anywhere. We didn't do La Kiva last trip which is usually a ritual. Plannin on goin this trip for sure.
- February 15, 2012 at 5:52 AM
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Not the One!
I took off of work, drove 6 plus hours, using 60 bucks in gas to check out the Gold Jeep. It is not the 'ONE!' It had some problems with a real noisey front end and fluids leaking near the tranny. I will continue the search locally and slowly fix up the 1999 with limited spending.
- February 17, 2012 at 6:35 AM


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Over the weekend I had an awesome time at the annual Scrapbook Capital Retreat. Arrived on Friday afternoon and from then until Sunday afternoon the time just flew. I met some great girls - Maria for the first time IRL and Tracy for the 2nd time ( yay that she is coming to Vic to live again in December). The theme was Halloween as the photos show and we had a great dress up night on Saturday. Who is that scary looking witch in the red hat????
Amidst all the chatting, i did mange to - have a wonderful massage - thanks Lorrie, scrap a book about my boy Nitro, run a few scrap games - Scrapaggories, ScrapHead ( like Celeb Head) and a Trivia quiz, eat lots and lots and LOTS of very yummy meals , have a few drinks, dress up as a scary witch, laugh, take part in the raffle and auctions, make a great Xmas card - ta for the class Lyynne-make new friends and generally have a blast!!! Roll on next year I say.


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The company was founded by Miranda Moreira, an Australian who was inspired by six years of living in Paris and by a tiny timber Hansel and Gretel silhouette she discovered in a local shop. The beautiful fairytale imagery motivated her to began crafting her own timber cut-outs after her return to Melbourne.
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June 20, 2018 06:36 PM
Newly-released body camera video captures the tense moments leading up to officers opening fire on a man during an interrogation at Minneapolis City Hall last December.
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The video shows officers ordering then-18-year-old Marcus Fischer to drop his weapon before firing.
RELATED: Man Shot at Minneapolis City Hall Sentenced to 6 Years
Fischer pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree assault and one count of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm earlier this month, as well as two other counts.
He has been sentenced to 74 months, which is just more than six years.
RELATED: Man Shot at Minneapolis City Hall Pleads Guilty to 2 Charges
Fischer admitted to shooting and injuring a man he was attempting to buy a gun from in December in Minneapolis.
Six days later, he was questioned about it by police at Minneapolis City Hall. When he was left alone in a room, Fischer pulled out a knife that police had not confiscated from him and began stabbing himself.
The video shows that 12 seconds after Minneapolis officers walk out of the police interrogation room at Minneapolis City Hall - leaving Fischer inside - he pulls out a knife that had not been confiscated and begins to stab himself in the neck.
For at least nine minutes, Fischer is inside the room alone with the knife. Police won't go in until an officer with a Taser is there.
When that happens, police unlock the door, and fire a Taser at Fischer. It appears the Taser missed or doesn't work.
Twelve seconds later, Fischer is still standing. Police say he is walking toward them with the knife in his hand. That's when officers open fire.
After Fischer is shot and on the ground, officers tell him to move over toward the wall because his right hand is underneath him and they can't see the knife.
Once the knife is spotted, it's another minute before he is pulled from the room.
"It's a little incongruent to say we want to save his life, but we're going to do it by shooting him and then not rendering aid as soon as possible when the knife is now away from the body," said Teresa Nelson with the ACLU of Minnesota.
Nelson said de-escalation should have been the priority.
"When you're yelling orders at someone to put a knife down, that's not de-escalating the situation, that's not calming him down, that's not engaging him in conversation and trying to resolve the dangerous situation," she said.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS did reach out to the city of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police union with questions, but did not hear back.
The attorney for the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension made the decision to edit the video and blur some of the body camera video before releasing it to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Often when a case is closed, like this one, we get complete access to the investigative file, and it's our discretion of what we air. We are very careful making those decisions.
The attorney for the BCA cited a state statute that allows law enforcement to withhold information if it is "clearly offensive to common sensibilities."
RELATED: Man Shot by Police in City Hall Charged in NE Minneapolis Shooting
KSTP's Jessica Miles is tracking this story and will have the latest starting at 4:30 p.m. on Ch. 5.
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Just wanted to take a moment to wish Happy Holidays to one and all. The last few months have been busy for us and it's guaranteed to be more exciting in the new year. I am so thankful to have this opportunity to be at this point in my life. I have a wonderful husband and gorgeous boys. That's all I really need but low and behold I am on the cusp of building a wonderful new home for my family. I can't help but feel blessed.
Here's to you and your family and may this time of year find you surrounded with love.


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Washington got a glimpse of what next year could look like in the second half of Friday's Fight Hunger Bowl. And it wasn't by choice.
Injuries to both quarterback Keith Price and running back Bishop Sankey -- players who have combined for almost 5,000 yards of total offense this season -- forced the duo out of the game, but the Huskies defense made sure that the offense didn't need to score again in a 31-16 win over BYU.
Sankey, a Doak Walker Award finalist who entered the game with 1,775 yards rushing and had 95 yards and two touchdowns Friday, left the game in the third quarter after suffering an injury to his right hand. While he's a junior, he's requested his draft evaluation from the NFL (and gotten a third-round grade), and is expected to make his decision about turning pro soon. He was replaced by junior Jesse Callier.
Price, a senior, was replaced by freshman Cyler Miles after he took a shot to the ribs on a third quarter run. Price went to the locker room and returned to test himself on some warmup passes on the sideline but wasn't able to come back. Miles, who got extensive playing time against UCLA and Oregon State, finished the game.
After BYU made it a five-point game at halftime, Washington got the ball to start the second half and Price hitAustin Seferian-Jenkins, the Mackey Award winner, for a 16-yard touchdown and a 28-16 lead.
And then the Cougar offense was stifled. While, as to be expected, BYU ran a ton of plays (97), Washington limited quarterback Taysom Hill's chances down the field and sacked him five times.
Washington finishes with it's first nine-win season since 2000, while BYU is 8-5. The quarterback in that 2000 Rose Bowl season was Marques Tuiasosopo, the Huskies' interim coach for Friday night's game after Steve Sarkisian was hired by USC.


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A week ago a friend was talking to me about the project which he was looking at on Facebook and explained his understanding of the project, something in line with a photo a day idea. I corrected him, but it then dawned on me that maybe it will be a good idea to explain what it's all about.
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PROJECT 52 WEEKS - an ordinary but interesting experience
Many times I have found myself intrigues by the simplicity of things, but at times have found myself astonished about how misleading the media, travel magazines and books can be about South Africa. So I started exploring the idea of an expression of exactly the "bits in-between" the headlines and highlights, from an ordinary point of view. In this case being mine. I do understand that ordinary could mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, however I am in a unique and privileged position to share my ordinary experiences.
So it's time to document my subjective view on the world around me, to express my life, and to educate and entertain others. This doesn't mean that it won't be factual, it will just be factual to me. I find that holistically better compared to the media who has a tendency to over exaggerate the bad things and the travel magazines and institutions to over exaggerate the tourist locations. The media and travel magazines do both of these for very specific purposes. Media is more desirable when it is dramatic and travel agencies and resorts (who are the primary sponsors of the magazines) attract more people when things are pretty and prefect. Now that doesn't mean I want to prove them wrong, because they not. But I would like to share the ordinary perspective I have.
I have found myself on numerous occasions before going on a trip somewhere, trying to find some information about the destination I'm planning to visit. At the start I visit the most popular websites and information centers and learn all about the weather, the major tourist attractions, and ring fenced representation of the destination. But I also find myself realising I am missing some information . The little bits of information that will make or break my trip between a fantastic experience or a really bad one.
I learnt an important lesson when I visited Dubai. I went to visit a special friend there and booked a 2 week stay. Because I knew someone there, who had local friends who had been in Dubai for quite some time, I got to experience life in Dubai from their point of view. it was fantastic, and the most amazing experiences I had were some of the most unlikely and were definitely not easily accessible to me via the internet or from any of the travel centers I came across before my journey. I was lucky enough to go during Ramadan, which initially I thought was a bad thing. But because I hung out with my friend and her friends, some of which was muslim, I learnt so much about their culture and religion, and the small details of the commitment and celebration, which made it special. I didn't even ride a camel or do quad biking on the sand dunes. I'm sure that it's fun, and would loved to have tried it, but ultimately I was too busy enjoying the "non-mentioned" smaller details.
So that brings me back to why I am doing this. For me, I get to share my experiences of South Africa and my immediate environment. For my readers (actually viewers, because it will be mostly photography based) they will experience life as it is, and the events, people and things I see.
Now I initially started my thinking around a 365 daily project. But it soon dawned on me that this is going to be close to impossible. Firstly because I have a full time job, and secondly because I want to do this with some level of quality, not "a photo a day" thing that others have done. So my plans to do a "Project 365 Days" soon changed to do a "Project 52 Weeks". This way I get to be selective on the weekly chapters and for you, I bet it would actually be quite boring to hear (or see) how I travel daily to work in the traffic and back and to most people, a boring and mundane daily job.
Now you might get some of the normal tourist activities in-between the bulk of my experiences, but if you really want the main attractions or weather, there are plenty of websites and brochures for that. If you want to know the news headlines, there is plenty of that too. What I'm offering is the gaps in-between the headlines and highlights. The things that make my life interesting, and that isn't available to you. This is my life, which from my perspective is ordinary and interesting.


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Future for Engineers in Oil, Gas
Engineers still have a bright future in the oil and gas industry, despite its current lull, according to Ollie Folayan, the chairman of the AFBE-UK engineering association.
In an association statement, Folayan confirmed that fossil fuel energy demand will exist for "at least" the next 50 years, providing engineers with plenty of working opportunities:
"It's generally accepted that our dependence on fossil fuels, whether through shale, oil, natural gas or, to a lesser extent, coal will continue for at least the next 50 years."
The AFBE-UK Chairman also stated that there are still reserves left to be explored and extracted in the North Sea, in a claim that was backed up by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, which increased the petroleum resource estimate of the Norwegian Continental Shelf last month.
Warning of the potential pitfalls of the UK engineering industry, Folayan revealed that a lack of students and teachers could spell disaster for the sector:
"According to Engineering UK's 2015 report, the single biggest threat to the ongoing success of the UK engineering industry lies with education. To meet demand, we need enough young people to study STEM subjects at schools and colleges. Currently, there are not enough specialist STEM teachers trained to a sufficient level to support this aim."
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Mars bound India- NASA mission to Mars set to fly off in May 2018
Approximately 1,38,000 people from India are all set to go on the Mars bound trip to explore the red planet. They have successfully booked their seats from the NASA's InSight Mission, which is all set to launch on 5th May, 2018. The people who have booked seats will be provided an online boarding pass, according to NASA.
The names of the people for the NASA mission to Mars will be embedded on a silicon wafer microchip, which will take help of electron beam for forming the letters of the name of a person. The letters will be one-thousandth of the diameter of a human's hair. These chips are going to be attached to the top hull of the lander.
When NASA called for names for the Mars Mission, there were lakhs of people who enrolled for the same. Out of which, several Indians responded as well. The total number of names received by NASA were 2,429,807, from all over the world.
Looking at the people country wise, The US stands at the first position. Followed by China, and at the third spot- India. US has 6.76,773 people ready to go to Mars, while China at the second position has 2,62,752 people.
Many experts all over the world say the India being at the third position is a matter of significance. Just followed by China. It could be linked to their enthusiasm about their ground-breaking ISRO Mangalyaan Mission, or even signify the diplomatic ties between India and The US. The United States being at the top spot was not surprising for the experts, since the mission was by NASA.
The Mars bound mission is estimated to land on the equator of Mars on November 26, 2018. The mission is going to be a 720 day mission for gathering information of the Martian interior. They are going to be monitoring the marsquakes for the same.


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I had a dream last night about bicycling. That's not really news worthy. I dream about biking pretty much all the time these nights. Oh, wait, now that I'm digging into my subconscious, I 'm remembering another biking dream from last night, too. See what I mean? Ho hum – do it all day, dream it all night.
In the first dream I was riding at night and it was somewhat cool. That's how it's been lately. It may sound surprising to those living in cooler climes, but I'm just now able to get rid of some of my warm layers on night rides home.
That's not to say that I couldn't, or haven't, ridden home at night in shorts and a T, but there is a certain cozy factor that feels really nice right now. Maybe I'm in denial about the approaching heat wave, aka summer. Last night, in the non-dream world, what do you call that, "reality," I rode back down the hill in jeans, double rolled on both sides, T, open flannel, and wool cap. I could have made it home without freezing to death in far, far less, of course, but like I said, it feels nice to cruise home easy down the hill, no chill, over-shirttails flapping behind, a burrito in the basket.
So, anyway, the dream. I was riding and I had one glove on and I was thinking, I wish I'd brought both gloves because this left hand feels cozy and nice.
And in the other dream I was riding Totally 80's (eighty-eight Centurion, steel road bike with seven-speed downtube shifters) on a golf course. There were a couple other people riding with me, up ahead – I couldn't quite catch up to them, of course, but it was an awesome ride along the cart paths and up against the banked mounds for the tees and greens. The grass was cut real short so we could pretty much ride wherever we wanted. There weren't more than a couple golfers out to get in the way of. But then we came upon some equestrians so we had to dismount and follow the "bikes yield to hikers and horses" trail rules.
The toe clip straps on T80's seemed to be those from the fixie (seventies Schwinn Supper Sport single speed, SSSSSS). They've got color to match the fixie, sort of a honey gold to compliment both the brown paint and natural sidewalls. I think, my subconscious wants me to get some matching blue toe clip straps for Totally 80's blue-splashed front and rear frame and bar tape.
Plus. I think golf courses could be used for much more than golf. Many of them would make great parks. I'd also like to see more courses using a diversity of plant material, native to the area, rather than just endless blades of grass.
Friday, May 28, 2010
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I could only lay on my left side. Everytime I was on slightly on my right side, K's heart rate would drop down.
Birth story- Kingston
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I could only lay on my left side. Everytime I was on slightly on my right side, K's heart rate would drop down.
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ohmygosh he is so beautiful! congratulations!ReplyDeleteReplies
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wonderful story and sweet sweet baby photos!ReplyDeleteReplies
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awwww congratulations! We're three months away from becoming a family of 5 (AHHH!), and I'm starting to get addicted to reading birth stories again, so this came at a perfect time :) So did the epidural wear off completely, or just over your belly? Had one with my first, but not my second, and I hated that numb feeling after I delivered my daughter.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much!! Gaaah, zoo exciting mama! My legs were numb the entire time but not my belly lol...it was the weirdest thing! I cannot wait for you to meet your new addition :)Delete
Beautiful family! Congratulations on your new addition.ReplyDeleteReplies
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He is so precious! I don't have any kids yet but I am absolutely petrified at the thought of an epidural. I don't want to be all druggy when I have a baby but I'm sure my instincts will instinct when the time comes. I LOVE how much of a pro you were when your water broke (the shower, the meal). I probably would have ran out to the car. lolReplyDelete
Absolutely precious and beautiful! Love this ❤ReplyDelete
Congratulations! So beautiful. I absolutely love reading birth stories. Thank you for sharing yours!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! Your family is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing, I love birth stories!ReplyDelete


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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Trainers and our inner children
My first riding instructor when I was a child was a very gruff "old school" type. The best you would ever hear from her was "that wasn't Horrible..." Her criticism was not very constructive either. I would often hear her yelling over the wind in my ears "DON'T FALL OFF" Needless to say she made a lot of young pupils cry. I do not remember especially losing it in front of her though I do remember coming home in a rage about her and my mom saying "you could just quit riding?"
That was never an option!
Honestly though I remember feeling mostly apathetic towards her, and her yelling. I never learned much from her, only from her horses, but she did not really get to me like she go to some of the others.
My next trainer(s) was another story. They were a pair of dressage rider twin sisters. My father worked with one of them and they saw my picture on the wall and asked if I wanted lessons... for free. My father jumped on the chance to get me free riding time and I jumped on the chance to learn something new.
They were quite different. They took the zen-master approach. No yelling but no praise just constant criticisms and corrections. They took my stirrups away and locked them in their truck for months. When I eventually got my stirrups back they tied my reins on the neck and I had to learn how to ride in a circle without reins before I would get my next lesson. I practiced in a large pasture so I spent a good deal of time in the woods before I managed to ride my circle. This brings me to my point about the extreme behavior that trainers can bring out of a person. They did not yell though they were brutally honest and still pretty gruff. I found my self filled with emotions sometimes during lessons and I was bewildered about where they came from and why? I didn't have that problem with the other trainer. Was it that these women were actually criticizing not just yelling, was it because I was growing up???
I was at a show and about to go in the ring for an over fences class. I had been warming up off and on and watching the competition. One of the twin trainers comes up and tells me to go warm up over fences. Instead of telling her I already had warmed up I go to pop my mare over the small vertical in the warm up arena just to appease. She chastises me harshly for being so careless to start to jump with out a warm up and I burst into tears. Both of us just sit there in stunned silence. I could not believe I was crying and she could not either! We never really recovered after that. I still don't know why that happened, or what it means. I was 14 at the time so still young but even now I can feel pretty overwhelmed during instruction. Why is that?
My current trainer is amazing. She really breaks things down and explains why things work. Two things I need in order to learn. She is also very positive. Quick to tell me when I do things right and open minded about my positive reinforcement training. I would consider us friends as well. We talk on the phone, and go out for coffee. We have still had a few humorous moments.
One time in particular that really sticks out was a lesson early on when Bodhi was very green, during one of our first dozen rides with the bit and out of the round pen. He was having a bad day. Being very fussy and nervous and I was getting frustrated. That was when Bodhi started stopping and standing there refusing to move. I figured he had to poop. As a baby it sometimes took him a while to actually get his business going. Also when Bodhi gets afraid or nervous he poops a lot. (Does this happen to anyone else by the way???
)My trainer tells me to get after him for his stubbornness and I tell her "No, he has to go!" She retorts that I am making excuses for him and that I need to be more firm.
"No he really has to go!"
"NO he is being difficult. Kick him. He has your number."
"No, I don't think so..." I can tell she is getting frustrated with me and she thinks I am being difficult. I feel horrible.
"Molly trust me on this one, he is being a brat. It should not take this long!"
"No I think your wrong, his back feels funny.. he has to go!" I kick him anyways and he takes a few tentative steps and then stops again. Before my trainer can say anything else he finally does his business. The tension is so high between us that we both start laughing hysterically.
It is amazing what lessons bring out of us. Trainers have a very special place in peoples psyche I think. Is it because they are telling us what to do? Is is because we are so used to having the relationship between just the two of us that adding a third party is weird? Is it just because of the fact they are challenging us and putting us out of our comfort zones? I think there is this special balance between trust and discipline without giving away your individual problem solving skills and integrity when riding with an instructor and maintaining that balance can get a little hairy.
So tell me folks what are your experiences with riding lessons? Have you lost your cool? Have you had some really bad trainers? Good ones? How are your relationships with them?
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It can be interesting in a lesson when you get frustrated. I haven't had any bad coaches, but I have had little meltdowns where my coach has told me to just walk and catch my breath and then start over.ReplyDelete
A friend took lessons from this lady and the lady would talk to the horse and ignore the rider. She would say stuff like "Vale, you are doing a wonderful job, too bad your rider can't figure this out...". Most of the time my friend was able to laugh about it, but she soon realized the instructor really didn't like people much so she swtiched instructors...
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM
I love it when I spur others into examining something a little more closely. I think you pretty much sum it up in your post. Our trainers push us outside of our comfort zones in an attempt to get better results. Society has trained us to look up to our "teachers" and to respect them. They have knowledge that we don't have yet and we're trying to learn it. Pleasing them by trying to do as they request. However, we need to find teachers/trainers, etc. that match our styles of learning. I don't believe in berating. You can point out errors but you also need to let riders know when they do something correctly. That's how we learn to ride correctly. I find that when I hear a lot of chatter (commands) I get stressed out. I need time to process what's happening and try it on my own. Thankfully all of my instructors have been wonderful and understanding.ReplyDelete
Keebler- How bizarre your friend must have felt! I think there are a lot of horse people that feel like they like horses more than other people but that is taking it a step further!ReplyDelete
dreeagerider-Yeah I agree it is important to find a trainer who works well with you. I have had people tell me that they like the yelling-it is the only way they will push themselves. I think I am more like you. If you give me to much correction not only do I get frustrated I get confused. My brain shuts down when there are too many commands at once. I guess we know how our dressage horses feel sometimes!
I am admittedly the worst student ever. I have had no luck in keeping a consistent relationship with trainers. It my fault and I am aware of the (hey, its a start isnt it?). When I was small I had a trainer for a few years then she sold out and I had another trainer for a few years. But once I was on my own and had my own horse, I really just took a lesson here for there. I hope one day I find someone who clicks, but I have never been the type to have 1 person that I look up to as a 'horse god'. I'm just a natural born skeptic...ReplyDelete
I think it is better to have multiple trainers to take lessons from. It keeps people well rounded and asking questions. I wish I was more consistent with lessons as well. It is hard to afford lessons in both time and money. I think being a skeptic is good!ReplyDelete
I don't remember too much about the lessons I took as a kid. I remember having to learn to dismount at all gaits, all kinds of exercise (toe touch at the trot etc), lots of figures. I know they put a good foundation on me because I was able keep up pretty well after a 15+ year period where I barely rode at all.ReplyDelete
Now, I have a coach that suits me well. Sometimes I wish she was a little harder on me! I am comfortable enough to question, listen, and yes, sometimes talk back, lol. I only get frustrated when I AM doing something she said and it isn't obvious to her, so she keeps telling me to do it! Usually she listens well and helps me learn by hearing what I'm experiencing and guiding me starting from there.
So, do you think all that no stirrup, no reins work made you a better rider, or not?
Yes riding as a child really gives you a great foundation doesn't it? I only wish that I had done Pony Club!ReplyDelete
You know there are actually using clicker training in coaching people now but they call it "tag-teaching" I want to try it! Does that sound a bit weird?
Yeah I think the no stirrup work gave helped my independent seat(which I am not so sure I have now!) and the no rein work put me in the habit of asking with the reins last. I don't know if that is "right" but it is how I train and I have noticed others having more trouble steering Bodhi when they ride.(though it is his weakness).