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If you know me, you know my love of music. And if you know me well, you know my love of Southern music.
I grew up listening to OutKast, UGK, Jeezy, Gucci, T.I., Ludacris. I've said often that I found southern music far more relatable than northern music. Growing up in southern Virginia, I was fortunate to have the best of both worlds as it relates to hip-hop. I listened to Dipset as much as I did 3 6 Mafia.
But southern music holds a special place in my heart. I've always thought of trap music – a sub-genre defined by Urban Dictionary as the "use of the 808 Roland drum machine, pitched and re-sampled hiphop/rap vocals" – as therapeutic. I listen to it while I'm working, while I'm at the gym, and while I'm writing for this blog.
With the rise in popularity and its commercialization outside of the south, trap music has become more mainstream and millennials are capitalizing off of it. There's Trap Karaoke, Trap Brunch, Trap Yoga. You get the point.
But more importantly, trap music, to me, is inspirational. I've said that Gucci Mane is an American success story, and with good reason. 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, Migos, Future – all of these guys worked hard in their music careers and are enjoying the benefits. It's easy to apply that work ethic to my every day life and how I approach traveling.
I haven't done any of the things described in any of the songs, and my life hasn't been nearly as difficult as the lives described in the music. The trap is just that. Issa trap. Trap music is about the struggle for success. We all have had situations that could have trapped us in the circumstances we've faced. But we got out. Life could've gone very differently for me, and you. But I've been blessed to see success and see the world, and I owe at least a part of it to my grit and determination.
I've written about my go-to travel playlist, but here's my non-comprehensive trap music playlist.


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Mint Chocolate Kiss Blossom Cookies are not only the cutest Christmas cookies around, they’re out of this world delicious! Anyone that loves mint and chocolate is going to fall in love with these melt-in-your-mouth cookies topped with a big kiss!
You guys! Have you seen a cuter Christmas cookie? I’m totally in love with these cookies!
The other day Branson texted me and asked me if I could make Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies for him to share with his Algebra class. Apparently, the class fell in love with those cookies when I made them for a party earlier in the year. Of course, I could make them again, but it’s almost Christmas now and I’m ready to move on to all things mint! By the way, if you’re looking for another Christmas cookie to make, you’ve gotta check out my Gingersnap Cookies! They’re to die for!
I’d been dreaming about Mint Chocolate Kiss Blossom Cookies anyway, so I decided to make them for his class! Talk about a hit! They were in love! I’d be in love too if my algebra class sat around and ate goodies instead of graphing inequalities!
Like I said, I’d been dreaming of these cookies for a while. In my mind, they were going to be perfect in every way! I whipped up the first batch and they were gorgeous, but dry, like fall apart in your mouth dry! And they tasted like toothpaste! Not dreamy!
So I played around with a few different recipes and created a new cookie, that come out of the oven flatter than a pancake! Not pretty!
I was determined to make the perfect mint blossom cookie! Giving up wasn’t an option! Thank goodness the third time was a charm!
They’re puffy, perfectly minty, and gorgeous! These cookies are dreamy!
Why should I use real butter in baking?
These cookies have powdered sugar in them and I’m in love with them! It makes the cookies almost taste like a cross between a shortbread cookie and a traditional cookie which is what makes them melt in your mouth!
Another important ingredient in making these cookies is REAL butter! I’m a dairy girl and think all baking should be done with REAL butter! There are a few reasons butter works best in baking.
- Have you noticed the ingredient list on the box of butter? It’s cream. That’s all! Just cream from real milk. Unless you buy salted butter, then it’s cream and salt. Still, you recognize those ingredients and feel safe eating them right?
- Some alternatives to butter contain less fat and more water. That’s going to affect the consistency and overall outcome of your baked goods. Stick with real butter for best results.
- There is nothing like the taste of real butter! There’s no comparison! It has the best flavor and can’t be matched by other products!
Can I omit food coloring in cookies?
When I was in high school my mom took me to a restaurant, not a fancy restaurant but not fast food. The waitress asked me if I’d like butter or margarine. My mom only bought real butter once a year, at Christmas. And she used it to make her famous pastries. Other than that I’d never tried butter.
I told the waitress I’d go ahead and stick with margarine. I’m not very adventurous when it comes to food. My mom looked at me like I was crazy, and instructed the waitress that I really wanted butter! I was in love! To be honest, I haven’t purchased a single cube of margarine since!
Butter is where it’s at! If you’re not in love already, you’ve got to trust me on this one! Butter from now on!
Who’s in love with that green color? Start with just a few drops of food coloring and add more from there. It’s easy to add more, but hard to take it out! I know there are folks out there that aren’t into consuming food coloring. If that’s you, simply leave it out. Obviously, the cookies won’t be green, but they will taste exactly the same!
If you’d like you can roll cookie dough balls in granulated sugar. It adds a pretty texture to the cookies. Or you can leave it off if you don’t want to mess with the extra steps!
By the way, some of these pictures are from my first batch of cookies. They have cracks in them, which I think is actually kind of pretty, but not tasty! The photos with noncracked cookies are from the recipe I’m sharing with you. You can expect your cookies to look like that as long as you don’t overbake them!
When should I add a chocolate kiss to blossom cookies?
Food nerds like me like to read about questions like this! I can’t help myself and it will save you some time from having to research it yourself!
Remove cookies from the oven, let them sit for about 1-2 minutes. Then gently press a chocolate kiss into cookies. The chocolate will get a little soft, but not to worry. As long as you don’t touch it, it will hold its shape. Remove cookies from the cookie sheet and finish cooling on a cooling rack. Completely cooled cookies can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container.
Adding chocolate too soon will melt the kiss right away and it could make a mess. Waiting too long gives the cookies a chance to firm up a bit, then they crack when the kiss is added.
Cookies and milk are always good snacks!
It’s getting cold and dark here on the dairy and when my boys come in from working they are always starving! Their bodies must burn extra calories trying to stay warm in the winter because I cannot keep them filled up.
I guess you could consider my boys to be cookie experts, and they think a glass of ice-cold milk is a must with these cookies …or The Best Chocolate Snickerdoodles, Coconut Cream Cookies, Mint Chip Sugar Cookies, No-Bake Caramel Cookies, or any other cookie recipe! You really need to try my Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars too!
Grab the Mint Chocolate Kiss Blossom Cookies Recipe!
Be sure to pin this recipe for later! Be sure to add it to your list of Christmas cookies! These gorgeous green cookies are always a standout on goodie plates!
MInt Chocolate Kiss Blossom Cookies
- 10 Tablespoons butter room temperature
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 whole egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon peppermint mint extract use less if you like a less minty cookies
- 6-12 drops green food coloring
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoons Kosher salt
- 24 chocolate kisses
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, a silpat, or spray with nonstick baking spray.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add egg, egg yold, peppermint extract, and green food coloring. Start with 6 drops of food coloring, mix until smooth. Gradually add more food coloring until desired color is reached.
- Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until combined.
- Roll cookie dough in 1″ balls. Place on cookie sheet.
- Bake 7-9 minutes. I bake my cookies for 8 minutes and it’s perfect. Be sure not to over bake them or they will be dry.
- Remove cookies from oven. Let sit on cookie sheet for about 2 minutes. Gently, press chocolate kiss into tops of cookies. Move cookies to a wire rack to finish cooling.

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The Woodward Shakespeare Festival presented Midsummer in the Rotary Amphitheatre during its second season, and it has staged a new production of the Shakespeare play to open its ninth season. I have a fondness for the show, since I had a non-major part in the 2006 staging. This year, director Aaron Spjute has a different vision.
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Fresno City Councilmember Esmeralda Soria is honoring some local women tonight at the 7th annual Women Leading the Way Reception Tuesday evening.
This year nine women from District, Soria’s district, will be honored, including Ying Lee, principal of Steinbeck Elementary, and the 2021 District 1 Woman of the Year.
These are the other remarkable women to be honored:
Alexis Freeman, Business & Labor Honoree – Hairstylist and Teacher, Central Unified School District
Betzavet Saari-Ayala, Health & Wellness Honoree – Massage Therapist
Joan Minasian, Community & Advocacy Honoree – Community Benefit Professional
Dr. Jackie Ryle, Arts & Culture Honoree – Community Facilitator and Consultant
Tressa Overstreet, Education Honoree – Principal, Design Science Middle College High School
Ketti Davis, Education Honoree – Assistant Superintendent of Education Services, Central Unified
Maeketah Rivera, Public Safety Honoree – Crime Specialist, Fresno Police Department
Rohini Randhawa, Youth Honoree – Student, Fresno State University


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As the market makes the slow and consistent shift from fee for service to fee for value, healthcare groups and networks are taking on different forms of financial risk. Programs in both the Federal and Commercial sectors have tied reimbursement to quality. Across the country, these vary in level of risk, from a modest incentive, up to 100% risk-bearing (capitated payment) models. With this market reimbursement shift, finding and closing gaps-in-care are critical to managing the health of your patient population and successful reimbursement.
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What is Silver?
Sterling silver is 92.5% silver and is sometimes referred to as pure silver. Sterling silver will tarnish over time but with care and regular cleaning can be restored to its good as new sparkling condition. The remaining 7.5% is usually copper but can be other metal and is used to give this precious metal strength and durability.
Generally, the higher the silver content the brighter or whiter the metal but beware of antiquing effects that can make a piece of sterling silver jewellery or decorative silverware look dark. Silver which is 99.9% silver is too soft to be practical for most day to day uses. Do not use tissue or anything other than a jewellery cleaning cloth to polish your jewellery as unseen tiny hard fibers will scratch the surface.
Dazzling and spectacular diamond jewellery
Dazzling and spectacular jewellery designs are made using the diamonds. In the bridal and jewellery sets Brides usually like to have champagne colored diamonds. Using certified diamonds designers also make terrific designs and styles of diamond items.
Give a glowing effect to the pieces of diamond jewellery items they look very classy. Because gold and platinum is too expensive silver is also used when you want comparatively low priced jewellery in diamond ornaments. The champagne colored diamond has its own uniqueness and sophistication. You will not see many people wearing the earrings or rings that you have got in your collection because this type of jewellery is very expensive.
Taking care of gemstones
Steam cleaning is quite effective but can result in thermal shock because of the often-quick temperature change. It can result in cracking because parts of the stone are forced to expand at different times. Most gemstones can be immersed in a solution of mild detergent and warm water.
Likewise with pearls; although soaking can result in discoloration, so this should always be avoided. After soaking for a few minutes, gently clean the stone with a soft brush. Pearls should be dried after cleaning, using a soft towel, and air-blown dry. Extra care should be taken to remove dirt from the bottom of the setting, a common place for build-up to occur.

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A commercial fisher has become the first person to be banned from fishing in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park under ‘three strikes’ legislation.Read full article
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No matter the means of propulsion, there is a penultimate length. That length depends on the caliber, weight of the bullet or pellet, the force behind it (air or gun powder), twist rate, and even the ballistic coefficient of the projectile. And I should add, about a dozen other variables.
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The bottom line is, length matters, but it is only one single, perhaps fixed, variable, not the whole gambit!


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IMPD announces planned changes to K-9 unit policies in effort to 'improve public safety'
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said it intends to change when and how it uses police dogs.
IMPD announced "forthcoming changes" to its K-9 unit in a news release sent Wednesday. Officials said a new policy was drafted "following months of reviews of national best practices and consultations with subject matter experts."
The announcement also came at the tail end of a year-long IndyStar investigation that was published online Wednesday afternoon.
The investigation found that people in Indianapolis are more likely to be bitten by a police dog than anywhere else among the nation's 20 largest cities.
The investigation was done in collaboration with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, AL.com and the Invisible Institute.
How IMPD's K-9 Unit would change
IMPD said changes "will tighten the criteria for K9 deployments and allow for more thorough and deliberate searches for potentially violent suspects."
“Amidst national and local conversations around policing, IMPD is listening to calls from our community and looking inward – making changes that are responsive to our neighbors’ requests and improve public safety,” IMPD Chief Randal Taylor said in the release.
“Our goal with these updates... is to change the way our officers think about K9 deployment and ultimately make search environments safer for both community members and officers.”
The new standard operating procedure, or SOP, for the department's K-9 unit will codify three criteria for when police dogs are called to a scene. The criteria are:
- The suspect must be wanted for a felony; or wanted for a misdemeanor and reasonably believed to be armed with a deadly weapon
- An effective perimeter must be established around the area
- Incident command must be established by a supervisor
The new policy would also include new deployment protocols, including:
- K-9 search teams will consist of three handlers and a supervisor, "all who have received higher levels of continuous training." Currently, search teams include one handler and assisting patrol officers.
- Search team officers will be equipped with "a variety of less-lethal solutions to provide more options for apprehensions of suspects with minimal force."
- Officers will also be equipped with additional body armor, "enabling them to safely conduct more thorough and deliberate searches for suspects wanted for violent crimes or who are suspected of being armed.
IMPD will also remove K-9 teams from vehicle pursuits. Currently, a K-9 unit would be one of the lead cars in a pursuit in the event a person flees the vehicle on foot, IMPD spokesperson Aliya Wishner said. The new policy would remove K-9 units from pursuits entirely.
Iif a vehicle pursuit becomes a foot pursuit, a K-9 unit could be deployed but only if the three new criteria have been met.
"What they're trying to do with these changes is create a more thorough and deliberate search process so that we have more options to be able to apprehend an individual and make the environment for everyone involved safer," Wishner said.
The proposed policy changes are being reviewed by someone externally, according to IMPD.
'Mauled': What IndyStar's investigation found
Across the nation, police dogs bite thousands of people a year, including bystanders, police officers and even their own handlers, the "Mauled" investigation found.
Dog bites cause more hospital visits than other uses of force by police, according to a 2008 academic analysis.
In Indiana, a police dog chewed on a man’s neck for 30 seconds, puncturing his trachea and slicing his carotid artery. A dog ripped off an Arizona man’s face. A police dog in California took off a man’s testicle.
The IndyStar investigation also found that the majority of those people who were bitten by IMPD dogs were not armed and not acting violently. And most of them were wanted in low-level crimes such as misdemeanors, traffic infractions and Level 6 felonies, which are the lowest level. IndyStar also found that a disproportionate number of the bite victims were Black.
IndyStar will continue to investigate police dog bites. If you have information you would like to share, please email IndyStar investigative reporter Ryan Martin at email@example.com, call 317-444-6294 or securely use Signal at 317-500-4897.

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Because the poor health of King George VI had led to the cancellation of
proposed world tours in 1949 and 1952, a world tour by Princess Elizabeth
and the Duke of Edinburgh was planned for 1952. A stamp issue was prepared
for this visit but the stamps were destroyed when the tour was cancelled
following the King's death.
After the 1953 Coronation
, the Royal couple embarked
on a gruelling six month Commonwealth tour during which time the Queen
visited many countries which had never before seen their ruling monarch,
including New Zealand. The Queen and the Duke flew from London to Bermuda
and Jamaica. There they boarded the S.S. 'Gothic' and visited Fiji,
Tonga and New Zealand where Queen Elizabeth made her live Christmas
broadcast for 1953. The Royal couple then continued to Australia, Ceylon,
Aden, Uganda and Malta where the Queen and the Duke were reunited with
Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Finally they sailed from Malta to London
via Gibraltar on the new Royal Yacht 'Britannia' which the Queen
had launched earlier in that year.
These stamps were issued to
commemorate the Royal visit to New Zealand. Only two stamps were issued as
the 1953 Coronation
commemorative and 1953 Queen Elizabeth II
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Wishing you peace, love, contentment, abundance
& laughter in the new year!
And in the wise and inspirational words of Neil Gaiman:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
...I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

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We all want to benefit from fair treatments and working conditions. Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to find a job in which to feel respected and valued. Too many of us end up hating our jobs, our daily commute and many other things that bring us on the verge of depression. These problems are universal, many psychologists and sociologists trying to understand their mechanisms. Their goal is to come up with viable solutions to decrease the number of people suffering from depression and various anxiety disorders. Many of these are triggered by unfair working conditions and treatments. This is why equality in the workplace is so important.
When employees feel valued and respected, they are more motivated to work. In addition, they feel less inclined to seek new job opportunities. This is how companies that apply the right principles regarding treating their employees enjoy a lower staff turn over.
Discrimination is a problem in many companies, especially in very large ones, with hundreds of thousands of employees. When big numbers of people have to cooperate and work together, some of them are going to feel frustrated because of less favorable treatments applied to them, as opposed to some of their colleagues. As this situation is inevitable, team leaders and managers should be trained to deal with these issues as soon as they arise. They have to be able to assess whether the frustrated employee has been the victim of discrimination or it’s just an illusion. The more accurate their conclusions, the better for everybody in the company. A good working environment has to cater to all employees and all teams involved in the various projects of the company. Only by close cooperation and effective communication can a business thrive and develop in this competitive environment.
Equality in the workplace also implies that all employees are provided equal pay for the same work. However, in most industries, men are better paid than women sharing the same responsibilities. This is a fact, so we have to face it, to acknowledge it and to actively seek for solutions to secure the same salary level for all employees doing the same work for a company.
There are many things to be discussed here, as this is one of the hottest topics of all times. Since women have to work as hard as men do, it makes sense that they receive the same pay as their male counterparts. Also, disabled people may also be victims of discrimination. This is another sensitive topic which has to be tackled with great care. It’s true that some disabilities prevent employees from doing their job properly, but most of them are perfectly able to do the things they’ve been hired for. These people should get the same treatment as everybody else on their level of skill and experience.
By joining our forces towards building a better working environment, we can hope in a better future for all employees in all companies from all over the world. This may seem a utopia, but how far are we really are from making it real?

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That’s the title of a new article which I have just submitted en masse to law reviews. [Note: the full text hasn’t yet appeared on SSRN. So here’s a link to the full text via Berkeley Electronic Press.] Here’s the abstract:
Currently, the United Nations is drafting an Arms Trade Treaty to impose strict controls on firearms and other weapons. In support of hasty adoption of the Treaty, a UN-related organization of Treaty supporters is has produced a report claiming that armed violence is responsible for 740,000 deaths annually. This Article carefully examines the claim. We find that the claim is based on dubious assumptions, cherry-picking data, and mathematical legerdemain which is inexplicably being withheld from the public. The refusal to disclose the mathematical calculations used to create the 740,000 factoid is itself cause for serious suspicion; our own calculations indicate that the 740,000 figure is far too high.
Further, while the report claims that 60% of homicides are perpetrated with firearms, our review of the data on which report claimed to rely yields a 22% rate. The persons responsible for the report have refused to release their homicide calculations, or any other calculations.
This Article also shows how a narrow focus on restricting firearms ownership continues to distract international attention from life-saving, viable solutions. We propose some practical alternatives which have already saved lives in war-ravaged areas.
My co-authors on this Article, as with many of my international law articles, are Dr. Paul Gallant and Dr. Joanne Eisen, who are Senior Fellows at the Independence Institute.


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Meet the Moseley Team
My first encounter with yoga was in 2000 in India where I went traveling for a year. I completed a one-month long yoga course and I was then convinced that this is what I would like to be doing for the rest of my life.
It took me a decade to realise that I should actually teach it and so I returned to India to complete my Yoga Teacher Training Course, which enabled me to change my life completely. Since then Yoga has become an integral part of me and I strive to learn continuously. I teach from the heart and only from personal experience. It is an honour to share this ancient science and art with others.
Every day I feel the need to take some time for myself and practise yoga. t feels my mind connects with my body and they really communicate in an amazing way together. It allows me to really listen to myself (body, mind and soul). I am able to fully understand my body, by knowing what it really needs.
I learnt to really communicate with my mind and it gave me the ability to stop the conversation for a while, making place for inner peace, letting myself enjoy good energy and the beauty in every thing.
My training and teaching experience allows me to combine traditional Indian Yoga styles with a contemporary western approach to authentically help guide others to find their own love for, and benefits from Yoga.
My teaching is spontaneous, light-hearted and I aim to adapt to meet the energies and needs of the group.
I am deeply connected to the spiritual aspects of Yoga, but I also know that to tame your mind and find the still and small voice inside, you need to start with the physical body and perfect your asanas (postures).
Hello I’m Babus, after a stressful career in medicine as a GP I had chronic health issues and mounting stress.
When conventional western medicine didn’t really help me get to the source of the issues, I decided to try yoga. I was taken aback with the holistic nature of yoga practice and just how much this ancient practice is relevant still today.
I do yoga everyday and try to get to at least one class a day and was inspired to become a yoga teacher due to the invaluable help, support and guidance from my yoga teachers.
I hope I can help those with chronic illnesses and those who want to exercise healthily benefit from yoga.
I’m Mary and I am passionate about yoga’s potential for self-healing. Yoga is the best system I have found to help you transform yourself, so that you regain control of your life.
Yoga found me 6 years ago, during a truly challenging time. I have always struggled with mental health problems, and the effect of years of going through life without adequate treatment left me paralysed with fear at a time when I had to rebuild myself from the ground up. The philosophy of yoga, along with its practices, helped me to get out of my own way and start working on my fears.
I am now grateful for the opportunity to help other people heal themselves using yoga.
In my classes you can expect a strong focus on going “inwards” and applying yoga concepts to your personal life.
In my workshops you can expect to learn practical tools to work with difficult emotions to find balance and a sense of personal agency.
Hi, I’m Tina and I have always been surrounded by Yoga but started practicing myself around 7 years ago. I found Yoga is so different to conventional ways of keeping fit and the added bonus of it nurturing the mind as well as the body, made me fall in love with it straight away! It helps me focus on myself when things get too stressful and I need to reflect, but the feeling of inner calm when practicing is bliss, and for that time, having to focus on nothing but myself is precious.
Earlier this year I obtained my Children’s Yoga Teacher qualification, and whilst my sole reason for qualifying was to learn how to instruct my daughter (who is 5yrs old), the more I learnt and researched, the more reasons I found to teach. The benefits of Yoga for anyone are immeasurable, but for children, it provides them tools and principles which they can carry through life.
I am passionate about teaching children what I have learnt from Yoga, and for them to love it the way I do. Yoga can help them manage how they deal with their feelings, develop body awareness, manage stress through breathing and meditation, build concentration, build confidence and develop a positive self-image. In addition, it provides an alternative way to tune out and relax, so what’s not to love??
Yoga creates a peaceful and calm environment, allowing children to realise that they are, for a change, not competing to be the best, but do the best they can, which can only have a positive impact on their mental health wellbeing. Even at this stage in life, I appreciate the way yoga makes me feel, mentally and physically, so imagine what a child can achieve if they are taught from a young age?
My approach to teaching is to make the class fun, my aim is to teach the children to practice without fear of judgement, to fill the room with happiness and positivity, for the children to leave feeling happy, de-stressed and content.


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Commerzbank stock is down by almost 11 per cent this week, after tumbling around four per cent today.
It comes after the German giant yesterday announced it is cutting a staggering 10,000 jobs, in a desperate effort to stem costs and maintain profits.
The lender shocked investors further with plans to axe its shareholder dividend payment for the first time ever.
Eurozone banks are struggling to generate profits after the European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates below zero to try to kick-start the economy.
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The candidates politely fielded a series of public policy questions before business and community leaders.
The first topic was the issue that most expect will be the key issue in next year's election -- the war in Iraq.
Mike Ciresi called for a United Nations International Peace Conference, to help find a solution.
Ciresi said U.S. troops should be redeployed as the Iraqi government takes control of its country.
"They have to meet the benchmarks which they established. We did not establish them, both economic and political benchmarks," said Ciresi.
Cohen also called for a peace summit.
"And when we have this international peace conference, which I support, we need to be sure that we will have Iran and Iraq and Syria and Turkey, and the countries of the entire region. We need to talk with those with whom we differ to find a lasting solution," said Cohen.
But Al Franken insisted the best way to convince other nations to try to find a solution in Iraq would be for the U.S. to begin pulling out troops.
"This talk about an international conference, we've been trying to have an international conference for a long time. They're not going to do that job unless we start leaving," said Franken.
The three DFLers also expressed alarm about the growing disparity between the rich and poor in the nation. And each called for ending the Bush administration tax cuts for Americans with annual income in excess of $350,000.
Franken questioned the logic of the tax cuts.
"This is the first time in the history of civilization that we've had a tax cut at a time of war," Franken said. "We're making our guys go over to fight -- our men and women go over to fight -- and then come back and pay for it for the rest of their lives."
Ciresi said by rolling back the cuts on top earners, tax collections would increase by as much as $60 billion -- money he says could be used for universal health care.
"Everybody has got to be covered. We need affordable, accessible," said Ciresi. "There's got to be an essential benefits policy that is an identical policy that everybody can purchase. If you want to go beyond that, there's a smorgasbord like federal employees have, they have a smorgassboard effect -- you can do that."
Ciresi said he opposes a move toward a single payer system.
Franken said, like Ciresi he favors universal health care for adults. But Franken wants a single payer plan for children.
"It would make premiums cheaper obviously for small business. Kids don't cost that much, and then it would provide a basis point to see how single payer works," Franken said. "Because that's what Canada did. Saskatchewan adopted a single payer. It worked, Canada adopted it."
On immigration, Ciresi called for more secure borders and five-year worker permits. Franken said the best way to prevent illegal immigration would be to furnish legal workers with high-quality documents, so employers would clearly know with whom they're dealing.
The candidates also talked about wheter to increase the federal gas tax in the context of the I-35W bridge collapse.
Franken and Ciresi called the gas tax regressive. Franken said he was unsure about a federal gas tax hike. Ciresi said he would support a four- to six-cent per gallon increase.
Cohen said he also supports increasing the federal gas tax.
"We see that we either pay now or we pay later," said Cohen. "Either bridges are supported and built and maintained, and roads, or we find that they collapse and we have an infrastructural disaster."
In remarks at the beginning and the end of the debate, Franken and Ciresi underscored their Minnesota connections.
Ciresi hammered home the fact that he's lived in Minnesota his entire life. As the attorney who won Minnesota's massive settlement from the tobacco industry, Ciresi pointed to his legal track record of fighting for Minnesotans.
"I think this election is going to be about leadership and who's delivered for Minnesota. For 35 years, I've been delivering for Minnesotans," said Ciresi.
Franken did not talk much about his career in comedy, and instead focused on his middle-class, suburban St. Louis Park roots. He railed on President Bush.
"When this guy goes, the world's going to breathe a sigh of relief and we're going to start a new era," said Franken. "We need a new president and a House of Representatives with a large progressive majority, and a Senate with a majority of people who care about average, working people. And I intend to be one of them."
Cohen used some of his own time to contrast himself with his much better known DFL competitors.
"There used to be a day not too long ago when you didn't have to be a famous celebrity and a multimillionaire to run for the United States Senate, and I'm making a part of that American dream come true. Nor do you have to be beholden to special interests," said Cohen.
All three candidates pledged to drop out of the race if they lose the DFL Party endorsement next year.


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Boy already met girl, girl already left boy, that was “Once.” What can a filmmaker do after a success like that? Writer-director John Carney doesn’t fully succeed Twice, but there are sweet and knowing moments throughout “Begin Again,” his latest romance about songwriting and a city, in this case, New York City in autumn. His script’s conceit is that Gretta, a young English songwriter (Keira Knightley) abandoned in New York by her rising-pop-star boyfriend (Adam Levine) would be discovered in an Arlene’s Grocery-like East Village music showcase by a just-fired, hard-drinking, burned-out music label co-owner named Dan (Mark Ruffalo), and record an entire album live on locations in Manhattan. (Accept the premise, you’ll like the smaller bits.) Until we get a city symphony like Ang Lee’s never-made sung-through version of Stephin Merritt’s “69 Love Songs,” “Begin Again” will have to do. Ruffalo has called Carney “the John Cassavetes of cinematic musicals,” which is a reach, but his little fillips and niceties speak to his years as an observant touring musician. “Once,” probably the shittiest-looking great movie I know, demolishes me. Its elemental swooniness, its shameless earnestness, are the confectionary movie romances ought to be shaped from. Even thinking of putting the DVD in makes me stop: I don’t want it not to do what it did to me the four-five times I saw it when it came out. “Begin Again”? Very entertaining. Sometimes silly. Laced with bouquets of fine fuckin’ swearing. And a dramatic-romantic resolution for all concerned that puts its world right, rather than rise to empty wish fulfillment. The early fall setting exploits the warm candied glow of New York City streets, and Gretta warms them further in a range of effortless, perfectly summery sundresses and sandals and half-cocked ponytails. When they meet, Gretta insists she’s not “Judy Garland just off a bus looking for stardom,” she’s insistent on authenticity. Who has that authenticity, Dan asks? Takes her a second, she says, “Randy Newman.” And what else could he say in turn? “I. Fucking. Love. Randy Newman.” There are a lot of nuggets like that, and there’s a shot of the Manhattan skyline, widescreen, bright digital colors, a fantasy of a city still all promises and dreams and no voices of recrimination. As Dan’s estranged wife, Catherine Keener does her usual finery with small moments, and Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit”) hits high notes as his teenage daughter. With James Corden as a friend of Gretta’s and fellow musician who has a busking scene in a square echoing “Once,” CeeLo Green, Yasiin Bey. 104m. (Ray Pride)
“Begin Again” opens Wednesday, July 2 at River East, Landmark Century, Cinemark Evanston, Showplace ICON, Renaissance Place and other locations.


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1983This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Barrie Mitchell.
Single page pen and ink original from an episode of Look-In magazine's adaptation of the popular Central TV children's programme.
The TV series was broadcast between 1982 and 1985. The Look-In version lasted from just March to September 1983.
The series featured Ken Hutchison as Mac Murphy, who takes charge as manager of a struggling fictional Third Division football club, Dunmore United, and a group of young supporters of the club whose day-to-day troubles included attempts to set up a junior supporter's club and clubhouse within the stadium. Scene's featuring Dunmore playing were cut-in scenes of Watford FC.


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The Ebola virus is spreading and the crisis is quickly spiralling out of control. Help stop the spread
Farms have been abandoned, food prices have skyrocketed: there’s not a lot to celebrate in South Sudan on this year's World Food Day...
“Girls my age should be wearing school uniforms, not wedding dresses,” says Muzoon, a 16-year-old Syrian refugee who has vowed “to fight against child marriage and for education for my fellow Syrian girls”
Over 140,000 Syrians have fled across the border into Turkey in the past week. They are desperate and terrified. Many left their homes with just the clothes they were wearing; some made the journey without any shoes.
About CARE International
We fight poverty and injustice in more than 80 countries around the world to help the world’s poorest people find routes out of poverty. We also deliver emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and help people rebuild their lives in the aftermath.


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More than a dozen Iowans are among the hundreds of American Red Cross volunteers who’ve been sent to the southern U.S. to help flood victims.
Thousands of people have been forced out of their homes from flooding in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas. Kara Kelly, with the Iowa Region of the Red Cross, says the workers from Iowa are from Albion, Ankeny, Cedar Falls, Dubuque, Marshalltown, Sioux City, and Waterloo.
“Some of them are disaster mental health workers, which means they may talk with people about the stress and the trauma they’ve experienced,” Kelly said. Other workers are distributing food and supplies.
Kelly expects many of the Iowa volunteers could be in the region for up to a month and more Red Cross workers from Iowa could be sent to the southern U.S. in the days to come. Two Des Moines based volunteers are “virtually deployed,” working with flood victims on the phone and/or online.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Performance, Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes has handed out “spy shots” of its sub-SLS AMG sports car prototype, which tells us that this on-again/off-again product is most definitely on again. Looking smaller than the company’s SLS AMG in these first shots of a running prototype, it nevertheless appears to retain the same basic shape as the larger halo car with a long hood and the cabin located far back on the chassis. Despite the similarities in shape, it does not have gullwing doors and appears to have barely enough room for 2+2 seating like the Porsche 911.
Moving into the realm of speculation and hearsay, the sub-SLS should have a good fighting weight thanks to a new all-aluminum spaceframe, and be powered by a twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 producing in the neighborhood of 485 horsepower. Of course, being a Merc, we can expect a 500+hp S variant and a bonkers Black Series model with something approaching 600 hp, the latter of which would be spoiling for a fight with the 911 Turbo. As for the car’s name, we’re told internally its codename is C190, but the production model could go by GT, SLC or even revive the SLR moniker.
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A Little Golden Book
Little golden books.
At head of title: Disney Mulan.
A young woman dresses up as a man to take her father's place in the army. She becomes a warrior and brings honor to her family.
Mulan (Motion picture : 2020)
9781518261251 (Paw Prints)
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Crimson Blades: Dark Fantasy RPG
Simon Washbourne was looking for a new project and decided to write a dark fantasy/sword & sorcery games heavily influenced by Elric/Corum, using the rules for his other RPG, Woodland Warriors (which uses a heavily modified Swords & Wizardry as its base). Here is the result:
With a familiar yet different set of rules, Crimson Blades gives you fantastic old school-style dark fantasy/sword & sorcery role-playing. You can be a brooding sorcerer with a demon blade, a savage barbarian with an equally savage panther companion, a grim tomb-robber seeking the riches of a long-dead empire or even a Dendrelyssi – one of the last members of a decadent race of necromancers looking for redemption in the lands they once ruled. Included in the game are five human character classes: Barbarian, Fighter, Mountebank, Sorcerer and Thief plus the inhuman Dendrelyssi and the NPC class Royal Redeemer. There are the traditional rules for spell-casting as well as rules for summoning and binding demons, elementals and undead. Included in the game is a brief setting “The Crimson Lands” for you to use as the basis for your own campaign.
There is also a supplement available for it, Crimson Lords, which details new character classes, demons, monsters, demonbound items, mass battles, sea battles, adventure ideas and NPCs.


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The Supreme Court is expected to consider taking up a case today involving a Virginia woman who claims the state's sex offender registry law is unconstitutional.
The woman was convicted in 1993 of unlawful sex with a teenager under 16 and served 30 days in prison. But in 2008, the state passed a new law that reclassified her as a violent sex offender.
The reclassification subjects her to new restrictions, including a ban on entering school property without seeking permission from state courts and the local school board.
The woman says that process unfairly risks revealing her children's identity and could take years to resolve.
Lower courts have rejected her case on procedural grounds, saying she failed to first exhaust state remedies.


President Trump over the weekend said that mail-in balloting would destroy America as we know it. It’s hard to not agree with him.
The following is from our friends at Breitbart:
“President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday continued to berate Democrats for pushing vote-by-mail, despite concerns about voter fraud.
“We’re not going to destroy this country by allowing things like that to happen. We’re not destroying our country,” Trump said during a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. “This has more to do with fairness and honesty and, really, our country itself.””–Breitbart
What are your thoughts, do you agree with the President that the Democrats agenda to steal the election is at hand?


text: Marvel games often show what psychologists who study the presence in space call “participation”. “It is an active and intense psychological treatment of what the player is experiencing, and is one of the most important levers that developers can use to bring players to this other world. My section was devoted to how Marvel games can be particularly effective in creating a dive – or, as psychologists often call it, “spatial presence”. “I thought it would be great to share my thoughts here if you weren’t in the room at the time. The transitions between the swings and jumps on the rooftops and sidewalks of the city streets were smooth, and I always had the impression that I was experiencing the so-called “cosmic presence” of psychologists. “I felt like I was a DATE in the game world. There are many ways in which the content, themes and mechanisms of the game can create space, and Marvel often uses them in “his” games. One of the main reasons why participation in Marvel games is often high is because people bring information about the game world. Marvel games are also particularly well suited to give players the opportunity to take pictures of a character they know and for whom they live. This time I was on stage at the Sasquatch Theatre with other psychologists and gamers, and I talked about video games based on Marvel’s characteristics. Studies1 show that this activity increases participation compared to the “shoot your hero” approach, which Marvel often avoids. This, in addition to the intense focus on the story, was also shown to help players participate and focus on the world of video games. Games that create a presence are more attractive, people love them more and play longer. Presence in space fundamentally forgets that there is technology between you and the fictional world. A model of the process of creating experiences in the presence of space. Finally, nostalgia and other emotional states are often caused by Marvel characters, stories and gender stereotypes that many of us remember from childhood. No one believes that they have been transferred to the game world as Jeff Bridges did in Throne. This helps them to fill in the corners of their mind map of the world without the explicit help of the game. This leads to the creation of a richer and more complete model of the world and the place that the player occupies in it.

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NEW YORK — Something about fashion week forces designer Alice Roi to venture into new areas of her life and work.
Last season it was her fiancé’s doing, when he used models carrying signs to propose marriage. This time it’s of her own volition, as Roi dives into the fur market with her fall collection.
During next month’s New York Fashion Week, Roi will show fur garments and accessories with her regular runway collection. Tendler Furs will manufacture the line under license.
“Fur is not something I usually work with, nor is leather,” Roi said. “So I really wanted to explore new territory.”
Edgy downtown designers like Roi are not the sort usually associated with fur stoles, jackets or hats. But the guard is changing as young starlets and hip twentysomethings embraced fur looks last fall. They wore it in their own style, of course, and now Roi wants to lead the pack with her own designs.
“I feel like most times when [designers] make fur garments it’s in a very over-the-top way,” Roi said, “and I feel like that’s another reason young designers don’t do it, because it could have a cheesy, ostentatious connotation. But I really want to change that and make it really chic and less about the dyed chartreuse over-the-top...more sophisticated, less trashy.”
Roi has twisted classic styles such as cable knit using cutting-edge techniques. For instance, a mink scarf features a fishermen’s knit and pompom details. Vests and beanie caps are made with a stretchable knitted mink, and Roi uses a laser-cut sheared mink made to look like eyelet and velvet for her shawls and scarves.
Knit gloves are in the works, and mittens are made with black sable and cashmere. To tone down the looks, Roi is sticking with a muted palette of black, navy blue and light whisky brown.
Handbags will also be part of the new collection. For fall, Roi will offer a bag in a combination of black rabbit fur with dried cactus hardware and a patent leather handle.
“Playing up the patent is so techy, and then the cactus is natural, and the fur is too, but it has a totally different feel to it,” she said. “It’s playing up a lot of different textures and origins.”Wholesale prices will range from $100 to $695 for the collection, which will be sold to specialty stores, fur retailers and fur salons at department stores. Wholesale volume is expected to reach $5 million over the next five years, according to Tendler Furs.
So is Roi nervous about any potential protests from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals at her upcoming show?
“What we do is make clothes, and people have made clothes in fur forever,” Roi said. “It’s a fabric.”
“Azzedine has been one of the biggest influences in my life. He has always been such a strong, loving, fatherly figure to me. I call him Papa. His designs are indescribably unique, they are pieces of art. He knew how to make the female form look its loveliest. I have so many memories of him; my favorite might be during my first show with him in Paris. He liked me and he wanted to help me get more work. He called all his friends at Kenzo and Comme des Garcons, and asked them to book me. They said, ‘But she can’t walk!’ And he said, ‘but she has such a great ass!' His friendship and support has been the great privilege of my career. I can't imagine life without him. Repose en paix mon Papa.” - @stephanieseymour tells @wwd. #wwdfashion (📷: @steveeichner) #alaia #azzedinealaia
Azzedine Alaïa, flanked by two of his closest friends, models Stephanie Seymour and Naomi Campbell.
He designed Seymour’s dress for her 1995 wedding to Peter Brant, and treated Campbell (who famously called him Papa), like a daughter. For more on the legendary designer, tap the link in bio. #wwdfashion #alaia #azzedinealaia
Azzedine Alaïa's “I-did-it-my-way” ethos stood out starkly at a time when brands are experimenting with consumer-facing fashion shows, coed formats and trans-seasonal collections – anything to perk up lackluster sales of ready-to-wear in an age of Insta-everything. “It’s not creation anymore. This becomes a purely industrial approach,” the late designer told WWD in an interview last year. “But anyway, the rhythm of collections is so stupid. It’s unsustainable. There are too many collections.” Read more about the iconic designer’s life and work on wwd.com, link in bio. #wwdfashion #azzedinealaia (📷: @WWD Archive, 1986) #alaia
Sneaker reselling app @goat’s latest exhibit, "The Greatest: New York," tells the story of New York's sneaker culture. To celebrate the exhibit, an intimate crowd gathered on Thursday night at the pop-up gallery space, located at Platform in Culver City, to hear guest speaker and illustrator @esymai talk about her own rise in streetwear and women in the business. "For me I'm just someone who is creative. I like to create things," said Chang. #wwdfashion
Azzedine Alaïa, one of the most iconic couturiers of the modern era whose body-con designs defined Eighties fashion, has died in Paris. The diminutive Tunisian-born designer, known for his structured knitted dresses with fitted waists and impeccably cut, figure-hugging second skin silhouettes was deeply admired by his peers, and counted supermodel Naomi Campbell - his adoptive daughter - among his inner circle, one of a gang of glamazons including Farida Khelfa, Carla Bruni and Stephanie Seymour who became ambassadors of his style. (📷: Alexandre Guirkinger) #wwdblast


Monthly Archives: August 2010
The art of politics
When the President vacations on Martha's Vineyard, Island art turns into a political celebration.
Film crew shoots scenes in Vineyard Haven
A film crew for a new comedy, "Jumping the Broom," shot some scenes near the Steamship Authority terminal in Vineyard Haven last week.
I started to write this column from a hotel in Santa Fe, N.
Shopping on Summer Street, Edgartown
I love when I have the opportunity to visit a new store.
So long, Bo Obama
Dogs, dog-owners, and dog-lovers are invited (along with everyone else) to convene at Ocean Park for the second annual Good Dog Goods Martha's Vineyard Dog Parade this Saturday, August 28 at 6:30 pm (this event was rescheduled from August 22 due to weather).
Vineyard band Grateful Dread is built to last
Tom Major doesn't need to feign modesty about his current band.
Entertainment on Island
Fall's approaching, yet the Vineyard still bustles with all forms of entertainment in up-close and personal small-town settings.
John Thayer’s practical art
Function, order, and no wasted space.
Worthington: Design for living
He is an affable man, used to being interviewed and being quotable.
A heartrending issue
I was surprised by the small turnout at the Tabernacle two weeks ago when a California organization called Not For Sale did a compelling presentation on the worldwide human trafficking problem.
Stephanie Danforth: Artist with a mission
It's hard to tell if the glow in the sunlit living room comes from Stephanie Danforth's incandescent paintings or from her expression as she describes the decade she's spent as a full-time artist and humanitarian.
The schoolhouse beckons – for learners, it’s a matter of ardor, not mere facts
We haven't a lot of ceremony left in American life, alas, but commencements do go on, year after year, and in the grand tradition, with full, appropriate panoply, bringing together, as we see here today, people from all walks of life, all parts of the country, and indeed of the world, to pay tribute to genuinely worthy accomplishment.
North Water Gallery, 5 to 7 pm, Artists' Reception.
A note on hosting visitors on the Vineyard
Fifty years ago, my grandfather sat down at his typewriter with a mission.
Pretty as a picture: Wearable art
That's the question we sought to answer when we visited Michael Hunter, gallery owner and fashion stylist, Stina Sayre, clothing designer, Ronni Simon, and Beth McElhiney, both jewelry designers and gallery owners.
Tisbury selectmen meeting change
Although the Tisbury selectmen usually meet biweekly, their next meeting has been rescheduled from August 31 to September 7, at 5 pm at the Tisbury Senior Center.
“Fish” by Greg Mone is a great catch
"Fish," by Gregory Mone, Scholastic Press, 2010.
Year round galleries on Martha’s VIneyard
Between the months of May and September the number of residents on Martha's Vineyard increases tenfold.
Ruth Adams' Treehouse Studios on State Road will be glowing with the vibrant paintings of Islander Enos Ray through Labor Day.
Children Rule at Old Sculpin
Children from 7 to 12 years old, art students at Martha's Vineyard Art Association's (MVAA) Studio School, revealed their accomplishments this past Saturday, August 14, at a show of their work at Old Sculpin Gallery on Dock Street, Edgartown.


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John, 43, and Shay, 31, first connected in Vancouver while the actor was filming Playing With Fire between February and March 2019. An eyewitness told Life & Style exclusively at the time they had seen the couple out four times in the Canadian town by the end of March and would run into them “once or twice a week.”
The following April, the couple continued their courtship when John relocated back to the United States. “They looked happy and peaceful and would occasionally touch each other’s legs,” an eyewitness told Life & Style of one of their back-to-back dates in San Diego at the time. “It was quite a romantic dinner!”
Six months later, the happy couple made their red carpet debut at the Playing With Fire premiere in October 2019. “What’s truly special about this one is that, no matter what projects I’m involved in in the future, this one will always have a special meaning because I got to film a special project and meet someone special,” the actor told Entertainment Tonight.
The couple continued to progress their romance. In February 2020, the product manager was spotted brandishing a huge rock on ~that~ finger when the dynamic duo stepped out and posed for photos with fans. So far, however, the pair has yet to announce an engagement. Life & Style confirmed on October 14, 2020, John and Shay secretly married during a ceremony in Florida.
Shay works at Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions Company based in Vancouver. She graduated from the University of British Columbia in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with intentions to pursue engineering.
Before the WWE alum started dating the engineer, he was in a long-term relationship with fellow wrestler Nikki Bella. The former flames started dating in 2012 and got engaged publicly during Wrestlemania 33 in April 2017. A year later, they broke off their engagement, just one month before their wedding was scheduled to happen.
The pair reconnected for a few months after calling off their nuptials but finally split for good in July 2018.
Nikki, 36, has since moved on with fiancé Artem Chigvintsev, whom she met while competing on Dancing With the Stars in fall 2017. They started dating in March 2019 after months of speculation and got engaged during a trip to France that November. They welcomed their first child, son Matteo, on July 31.
Of all the celebrity couple meet-cutes, this one is definitely one of our favorites.


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A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article’s premise of impending runaway global warming (“RGW”)is off the mark, by a lot. More to the point, off by really a lot in order to temper the sting expected when abrupt temperature increases hit hard, as projected in the article, which is entitled: “Greenhouse Gas Levels Keep Accelerating.” Oh, BTW… the worst-case scenario happens within one decade!
Here’s a snippet: “… such a rise in greenhouse gas levels has historically corresponded with more than 10°C or 18°F of warming, when looking at greenhouse gas levels and temperatures over the past 800,000 years….” (Source: Greenhouse Gas Levels Keep Accelerating, Arctic News, May 1, 2019)
Obviously, it goes without saying no sane person wants to believe, and likely won’t believe or accept, studies about killer temperatures locked, loaded, and ready to fire, right around the corner. That fact alone serves to christen the title “Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming.”
Furthermore,and for journalistic balance,it is important to mention that mainstream science is not warning of imminent Runaway Global Warming (“RGW”), as outlined in the Arctic News article.
Still, the article does have credibility because it is the product of academic scientists. Therefore, metaphorically speaking, one can only hope that their Ouija boards were out-of-whack, misinterpreting the data.
Alas, the Arctic News article would not be out there if only the U.S. Senate had taken seriously Dr. James Hansen’s early warnings about global warming way back in 1988. The New York Times headline d/d June 24, 1988 read: “Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate.”
Curiously enough, ten years later, in 1998, the process of assembling the International Space Station (“ISS”) commenced as approved by Congress, which included 100% solar power. But, ignoring the obvious, no solar initiatives were suggested for the country, not even mentioned.In fact, ever since Dr. Hansen’s warning of 40 years ago, Congress is MIA, a big fat nada, not even one peep or word about efforts to contain global warming.
As such, it’s really no surprise (but somewhat shocking) that a Children’s Climate Crusade, originating in Sweden, is brewing and stewing about the global warming crisis, and they’re addressing a very long list of failures by “the establishment.” Honestly, does it take children to figure this one out?
The Arctic News article is a haunting commentary on the current and future status of global warming,as follows: The article describes a powerful combination of greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrogen oxide (NO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O)in combination with oceans and ice taking up ever-less planetary heat, threaten life on Earth within a decade.
According to the article: “So, how fast and by how much could temperatures rise? As oceans and ice are taking up ever less heat, rapid warming of the lower troposphere could occur very soon. When including the joint impact of all warming elements … abrupt climate change could result in a rise of as much as 18°C or 32.4°F by 2026. This could cause most life on Earth (including humans) to go extinct within years,” Ibid.
That can’t possibly be true, or can it? The good news is nobody knows 100% for sure. But, here’s the rub: Some really smart well-educated scientists think it could happen, in fact they are almost sure it will happen. According to the article, the setup for the worst-case scenario is falling into place much faster, and sooner, than ever thought possible. It’s highly recommended that interested parties read the entire article, Google: Greenhouse Gas Levels Keep Accelerating, Arctic News, May 1, 2019.
Based upon the article,civilization has been living on borrowed time, meaning, the oceans as well as glacial and ocean-bearing ice have been absorbing up to 95% of the planet’s heat, thus, minimizing atmospheric global warming and saving civilization from a bad heat stroke.
However, those two huge natural buffers are losing their mojo, kinda fast. Increasingly, extreme ocean stratification and heavy loss of ice minimize the effectiveness of those two crucial buffers to rapid global warming. Consequently,forcing the atmosphere to take up more and more, and way too much more, planetary heat, leading to bursts of global temperatures when least expected, the Custer’s Last Stand moment.
One of the primary causes of upcoming acceleration of global warming includes a very recent study about nitrous oxide, N2O, which is 300xs more potent than CO2 and has a lifetime of 120 years, found in huge quantities (67B tons) in Arctic permafrost, to wit: “The study by Jordan Wilkerson, et al: https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/19/4257/2019/shows that nitrous oxide emissions from thawing Alaskan permafrost are about twelve times higher than previously assumed. A 2018 analysis (GuibiaoYang, et al, Magnitude and Pathways of Increased Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Uplands Following Permafrost Thaw, Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society) points at the danger of large nitrous oxide releases from thawing permafrost in Tibet. Even more nitrous oxide could be released from Antarctica,” Ibid: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b02271
N2O, the third most important GHG, is an intensely effective molecule that impacts global warming 300xs more than CO2. That is an enormous, big time, impact. In that regard, the rate of current N2O emissions is extremely concerning. According to recent research, nitrous oxide is being released from melting permafrost “12xs higher than previously assumed.”That could be asure-fire formula for helping to turbocharge global warming, and it lends supporting evidence to the underlying thesis of the Arctic News article.
So long as bad news is the order of the day, in addition to N2O as a powerful GHG (greenhouse gas), it is also an ozone depleting substance, uh-oh, which brings to mind shades of The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer of 1987, an international treaty designed to save civilization’s big fatass.
For those who missed class back in the day (1987), the ozone (O3) layer of Earth’s stratosphere (10-30 miles above ground level) absorbs most of the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation, without which Homo sapiens would be toast!
Ozone is widely dispersed in the atmosphere, to an extreme; however, if it were all compressed into one thin layer, it would be the thickness of one penny. From a narrow viewpoint, as just explained, one penny of thickness of ozone molecules separates humanity from burning alive, and thus explains the Great Panic of the late 1980s when a Big Hole was discovered in the ozone layeras a result of too much human-generated chlorofluorocarbons (“CFCs”) Halons and Freons.
According to James Anderson (Harvard professor of atmospheric chemistry), co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on ozone depletion, speaking at the University of Chicago about global warming in 2018: “People have the misapprehension that we can recover from this state just by reducing carbon emissions, Anderson said in an appearance at the University of Chicago. Recovery is all but impossible, he argued, without a World War II-style transformation of industry—an acceleration of the effort to halt carbon pollution and remove it from the atmosphere, and a new effort to reflect sunlight away from the earth’s poles… This has do be done, Anderson added, within the next five years.” (Source: Jeff McMahon, We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says, Forbes, Jan. 15, 2018).
Based upon that gauntlet as laid down by professor Anderson, only 4 years remains to get something done to “save us.” But, sadly, there is no “WW-II style transformation of industry”under consideration, not even a preliminary fact-finding mission.
But, there is a very active ongoing Children’s Crusade prodding adults to do something… for a change, but as the children are quick to point out, they do not expect much help from the adults in the room based upon years of “doing nothing.”
Still, children skip classes to publicly protest the misbehavior of adults and occasionally, they give speeches, for example: At Katowice, Poland, COP-24 (Conference of the Parties) in December 2018, Greta Thunberg, a 15-year old from Sweden at the time, addressed the UN secretary general António Guterres. Here’s her speech:
“For 25 years countless people have stood in front of the UN climate conferences, asking our nation’s leaders to stop the emissions. But, clearly, this has not worked since the emissions just continue to rise.
So I will not ask them anything.
Instead, I will ask the media to start treating the crisis as a crisis.
Instead, I will ask the people around the world to realize that our political leaders have failed us.
Because we are facing an existential threat and there is no time to continue down this road of madness… So we have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future. They have ignored us in the past and they will ignore us again.
We have come here to let them know that change is coming whether they like it or not.”
Robert Hunziker, MA, economic history DePaul University, awarded membership in Pi Gamma Mu International Academic Honor Society in Social Sciences is a freelance writer and environmental journalist who has over 200 articles published, including several translated into foreign languages, appearing in over 50 journals, magazines, and sites worldwide. He has been interviewed on numerous FM radio programs, as well as television.


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Meet Zadie Ma, a girl who writes magical stories that sometimes come true. Can Zadie bring to life her most important story of all . . . the one where she finds Jupiter, the dog of her dreams?
From one of Australia's most esteemed and award-winning children's authors comes a heartwarming story set in postwar Melbourne about courage, friendship, the magic of stories and one girl's unwavering love for her dog.
Zadie Ma has a special talent for telling stories . . . and it seems that some of Zadie's stories come true. Zadie's dearest wish is to have a dog of her own and so she starts to write the story of a poor unwanted dog called Jupiter, who's just waiting to be rescued by a loving girl like Zadie.
One morning when she's supposed to be minding the family shop for her mother, Zadie sets off to look for Jupiter. The scene that unfolds isn't quite the same as in her story but she does find a real dog, and his name is Jupiter. Once Zadie has rescued him, she realises she can't just take Jupiter home because her mother won't let her keep a dog. Luckily her bold new friend Sparrow lets Zadie keep Jupiter at her house till Zadie can work things out.
But a series of unlucky events means that Zadie can't write the happy ending she dreams of for her story, and now she may lose her beloved Jupiter forever.
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Gabrielle Wang is the Australian Children's Laureate for 2022-3.

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While at PAX Prime this past weekend, we had the privilege of meeting one of the coolest groups of people – and one of the most fun bands we’ve ever seen – The Returners! Lauren, Wedge, Danger, John and Lobos sit down with Mike and Cameron in the world famous (not really) Orcas Room to discuss their career, the honor of playing PAX, and how exactly you go about creating a cover of a famous video game song. Plus – Mike and Lauren fangasm over Final Fantasy 6 and King’s Quest, Lobos gives us advice on being a professional streamer, lightsaber collections, Earthbound, Dark Souls 3, and all the coolest stuff we all saw on the show floor. Don’t miss this one!
If you want to check out more of the Returners, visit their website right here.
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I’m working on a very old application which was originally developed for the Mac and I ported to Windows. The application does some work with images in OpenGL then saves the result. I get good results on AMD cards, but on GeForce cards the results are sometimes very wrong (this depends on the system).
I traced this to some accumulation code which used glReadPixels and did accumulation on the CPU side. Saving the result of glReadPixels I saw that only part of the image was written to the buffer. This is often the top part, but sometimes several rows at the top are written, then some aren’t, then the bottom is written.
I decided to change the code to copy the viewport to a texture using glCopyTexSubimage2D, and then do the accumulation on the GPU side. Again this works well on AMD but shows the same problems on the NVIDIA system I tried it on.
Has anyone encountered this problem? Am I doing something wrong or is it that so few people use these functions that they just aren’t tested and don’t work?
I will try to revise the system to draw directly to a texture instead of the viewport and see if that works. It’s a complex application but I think I can hack this. I’d still appreciate a response about this problem.


PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Another three stolen cars were found at Delta Park during a clean-up that has already turned up several other stolen vehicles.
A number of police officers have been assisting with clean-up efforts around Delta Park over the past two weeks. Within the first day, four stolen cars were located in the area.
On Monday, the Portland Police Bureau said another four cars were checked at the site — three of which ended up being stolen.
“These crimes impact the livability of our community, the environment, and the victims’ ability to get where they need to go,” the Portland Police Bureau stated in a tweet.
The cars were being stripped for parts at the site. The vehicles were missing items such as batteries, catalytic converters and more. The PPB said one pick-up truck was unrecognizable after being stripped.
The City of Portland says a notice for the clean-up of Delta Park was posted last Friday and a notice was posted for a clean-up of North Victory Park the day before. Efforts to clean both parks began this week.
Both parks are large sites and will take some time to clear, according to the city. Although the city says significant progress has been made, it is expected to take crews several weeks to completely clean the areas.


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How do you remember food in the 90s?
By Rebecca Almond
Toys in cereal boxes, Zack from Saved By The Bell, Neil Buchanan’s mind-blowing Big Art Attacks – THE SPICE GIRLS! How I loved the 90s. Granted I was just a child but the way I remember it, things were simpler back then.
Trading Pogs, finding your first love through Dream Phone, learning every single word of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air rap (I still know it by heart)… Panda Pop chugging at Charlie Chalk Fun Factory, playing Snake on a Nokia 6110, having nightmares about the Godzilla-esque notion that was The Millennium Bug… Ahhh those were the days.
Recalling the food of the 90s makes me equally as misty-eyed with nostalgia. So what if it wasn’t defined by sophistication and superfoods? Convenience was king and Captain Birdseye his right-hand man. We welcomed the gastropub, toe-tapped to the catchiest food jingles and cooked along to Ready Steady Cook. I wouldn’t change a mouthful. Grab a bite down memory lane with me, why don’t you…
Kellogg’s Banana Bubbles
Launched in 1995, it was the cereal that thought it was a milkshake. It was confused – as were we – and its bubble burst a few years later.
Bernard Matthews Turkey Dinosaurs
Inspired by the 1993 box office hit Jurassic Park, old Bernie’s logic was: “They’ve seen the movie, now they can have them for tea.” Because who doesn’t want to come face to face with T-Rex at dinner time…?
PG Tips Pyramid Bags
The ‘it’ bag of 1996.
Richard Branson’s 1994 fizzy drink launch fell flat in the shadow of Coca-Cola’s new ad campaign.
Fusion food reared its curious head
Asian-style this, Cajun-spiced that, the Chicken Balti Pie… Some dishes were innovative, but most were inedible. In my house, the trend materialised as Mum serving curry with pasta shells (I’m not sure she understood the concept).
The alcopop that filled A&E bays countrywide with teens needing their stomachs pumped.
Hula Hoop BIG O’s
Bigger and, if you ask me, even better than the original, but for some reason the beef and mustard potato snack didn’t cut the, err, mustard.
The sweets that proved copying an 80’s nerd gets you nowhere – they were too similar to their predecessor, so were taken off shelves after a few years.
A slap in the face for parents who’d taught their kids not to play with their food.
The ‘healthy’ fruit juice that had as much sugar as cola and turned children into Oompa Loompas. Tasted lush, though.
If there’s one treat from my childhood I’d reinstate, it would be these bite-size, chocolate-filled, cartoon-faced biscuits.
The launch day was dubbed ‘Fuesday’ 24 September 1996, but we forgave Cadbury’s folly and bought 40 million of its new chocolate bar in the first week. Something went wrong, though, and now the crunch-chew chocolate ‘fusion’ is but a fond memory.
By the early Noughties, this 10p tuck shop favourite had spun off into nonexistence. The closest thing to it these days is the 20p Dairy Milk Freddo Caramel, but I can’t bring myself to part with the extra cash.
The yogurt version of a Kinder Surprise – the toy in the middle was equally as naff.
What are your food memories from the 90s? Share them in the comments below
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2019 Carson Scholar, Brian Blais, published on Terrain.org
Nov. 22, 2019
On November 22, 2019, Carson Scholar Brian Blais published his first op-ed on the non-profit online literary journal, Terrain.Org. Terrain.Org has was established in 1997 and searches to understand the human experience between the the built and the natural environment. Its segment, A Life of Science, seeks to share the experiences of young natural scientists, such as Brian, as they tell the story of their interaction with nature at a deeper level.
To read Brian's full piece, visit Terrain.Org here.


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It is quite possible these protests could escalate. In this environment, it is to be expected that any protests will be used by the defenders of “free speech” to bolster their opinion that Muslims are fundamentally “intolerant” and “totalitarian” and that they threaten western democratic society. Thus the “freedom of the press” campaign will be used to promote the most reactionary of political ends.
Ah yes, there was a counter demonstration too:
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Guess who’s Al Jazeera’s new weekly specialist on the US elections?
One guess. Yep, Avi Lewis.
Wankers of the world, unite!
Asked if Al Jazeera Arabic’s reputation for airing terrorist propaganda played into his decision, Mr. Lewis said the question is “absolutely hilarious.”
“What’s the allegation? That Al Jazeera aired [Osama] bin Laden videos? So did CNN, FOX and everybody else,” he said. “I know that Al Jazeera is a favourite target of nationalist right-wingers in the United States, but as a journalist, I like to judge things on the evidence.”
You may remember Avi Lewis from such clips as “Cartoonishly Anti-American Host Interviews Ayan Hirsi-Ali”

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Marrakech to Ouzoud Waterfalls Tour to Demnate Groves, Lmi Nifrid Natural Bridge, Ouzoud Waterfalls & Tanaghmeilt Berber Village. Book Day Trip to Ouzoud From Marrakech to Uncover the impressive nature and landscape.
Early morning pick up at 8 from Marrakech hotels then travel to the countryside of Morocco through the lovely olive groves of Demnate, natural bridge in Imi Nifrid then arrive near Tanaghmeilt village to Ouzoud. Relish an easy hike up to the falls wandering the wheat field and impressive green scenery around. Get your lunch in local restaurant then transfer back to your hotel in Marrakech.
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Porter Regional Hospital will be sponsoring and speaking for the Duneland Chamber of Commerce’s free Sunrise Seminar on Thursday, September 4. In this educational seminar we will be hearing from Dr. Jessica Haloskie the Medical Director of Porter’s Health at Work Clinic.
The event will be held from 9:00 am – 10:30 am at Riley’s Railhouse – an historic bed and breakfast located in the heart of downtown Chesterton at 123 4th Street. The public is invited to attend this free seminar, which will include a continental breakfast and networking opportunities.
Dr. Jessica Haloskie will be discussing workplace wellness as it relates to your employee’s health risks, quality of life, personal potential and your company’s bottom line. As Medical Director of Health at Work, Dr. Haloskie oversees and is responsible for ensuring operational excellence for Porter’s occupational health and corporate wellness programs. With more than 350 physicians representing 50 medical specialties, Porter Health Care System is a leader in technology, innovation and overall patient care.
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Amcor: Sale of investment in AMVIG Holdings Limited
September 24, 2020
ZURICH (News release) -- Amcor plc announced it has entered into a binding agreement with New Prospect Capital for the sale of its 47.6% equity accounted investment in AMVIG Holdings Limited (AMVIG) for cash consideration of US$124 million. AMVIG is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the transaction, by way of share sale is expected to close in the coming days.
AMVIG is a Chinese tobacco packager.
For the year ended 30 June 2020, Adjusted EBIT for the Amcor Group included a US$12 million contribution from the investment in AMVIG and cash flow from operations included US$10 million related to the receipt of annual dividends.

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The eruptions of Popocatepetl Volcano in Mexico continue.
While ashfall continued in the surrounding cities due to the eruptions in the volcano, face-to-face education was suspended in schools in 22 cities in Puebla state.
In a statement, Puebla State Governor Salomon Cespedes announced that due to the constant ashfall in the cities near the Popocatepetl Volcano, it was decided to continue education in the region in a virtual environment, in consultation with the mayors of these cities, until a second announcement is made.
Stating that the volcano was being watched by civil protection officials, Governor Cespedes stated that there was no situation that would cause panic and called on the public to remain calm.
Flights suspended due to ashfall
The recent eruption activities on Popocatepetl Volcano and the resulting ashfall in the surrounding area also negatively affect air transportation.
Flights were suspended for one day in order to clear the ash accumulated due to ashfall on the runways of Puebla International Airport in April.
In the past days, it was reported that the windows of some houses were broken due to the violence of the explosions in the regions close to the volcano. Popocatepetl Volcano, which has seen an increase in its activities for more than a year, had a total of 113 eruptions last year, and the number of eruptions recorded from the beginning of 2023 to date has reached 503.