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Perfectionism, Novels, Songs and The Great British Bake-Off
Stacey from Hertfordshire is desperate to be crowned star baker, which is why she is sitting on the floor in front of her oven holding its door shut with her hands with the patience and determination of Churchill, or Queen Elizabeth (either Queen Elizabeth). A moment ago, the oven door fell off its hinges, but since she had perfectly pre-heated it for her Victorian Savoy cake––and it’s the quarter finals of The Great British Bake-Off––she is just going to sit on the floor, pressing on the broken door with her two hands for the next thirty-five minutes until that cake is good and done.
As usual, Stacey has made overly elaborate plans, but as a Savoy cake is meant to be 90% decorative (in its heyday was rarely consumed, or if it was, rarely enjoyed) this is understandable: Stacey’s cake must not only look the show-stopper it is, but also taste divine. Fortunately, she has learned, lo these last eight weeks, to plan ahead, and thus she’s already prepped her decorative jellies, choux buns and macaroons. She actually does have the time to simply sit here on the floor holding the oven door shut, and thus I admire her and am learning from her example. Prepare strategically, hold on with tenacity, never give up!
My family has taken to watching The Great British Bake-Off on Sundays and Tuesdays––evenings when I don’t work but also don’t want to give my full attention to a show that demands it––say, a show with subtitles. Or a show that actually has a plot and acting. I learned, during the Pandemic, that I like to sit in South Couchland with my dog Hudson on my lap, my MacBook to my right, and my family scattered about me, each on their own little screens. The GBBO is good background noise for things like planning the grocery list and meals for the week, rectifying my checkbook, paying bills, responding to emails that don’t require a lot of thought.
I watched Stacey’s struggles one night as I paged through three novels I’d recently read, marking passages with two different colored post-its in order to write an essay on the narrator’s temporal position in each of these texts. (Essentially, I was trying to determine what the narrator knew and when she knew it.) I was trying to figure out how exactly the authors accomplished the weaving of a present/past structure––where present story weaves with past story, such as in Angle of Repose, The Remains of the Day and Americanah. Visual learner that I am, it helps me to see these movements.
Sometimes I ask myself why I am taking so much time with these critical essay requirements of my MFA program. It’s not as though I’m being graded. The worst that can happen should I write a “bad” essay is that I’ll have to feel ashamed when my faculty advisor responds with a scathing comment. But of course, that means I’ll have to live with my own shame––not doing my best. I sometimes forget that I am not at grad school to be published. I am at grad school to be taught. One of the things I need to be taught is how to practice experiencing failure and rejection.
Stacey should not be ashamed if she doesn’t get star baker, and I’m already confident she won’t get kicked off the island, because she did second best in the “technical” bake, producing something called a “Rum Nicky,” which looked like an alcoholic fruit tart; and she did well in the signature bake, making a disgusting looking thing called a “clanger.” The worst that can happen is that Paul will stare at her with his cruel blue eyes and say, “I don’t think that worked,” or “it’s a little bit stodgy,” or Prue will pull her upper lip down and say, “It’s not worth the calories,” or––worse––“No one likes to eat raw dough.”
But anyone who remembers “Sticks and stones can break my bones…” knows full well that names––and pretty much any kind of disapprobation––can hurt plenty, and from the looks on the poor bakers’ faces after a Paul Hollywood dismissive comment, it seems bad enough for them, too. And it’s part of what makes me keep scribbling away on these essays, writing multiple drafts when I should just toss them off.
There’s also that I don’t want anyone to see me struggling.
But it’s not just that I want to be star baker at my grad school. I actually want the satisfaction of nailing something. In the real world, the only judge for these bakers will be the clients or supervisors at the future restaurant at which they might become employed, where it will all come down to consumption. Do they like it? Does it work? If they don’t, if it doesn’t, the average eater might not be able to articulate why as clearly as Paul Hollywood, who would say something like, “I’m not getting any strawberry. The rhubarb overwhelms.” Similarly, my essay or short story might not get chosen for publication by an editor who can’t necessarily put her finger on why she doesn’t like it as clearly as my faculty advisor can.
I decided finally to commit to an MFA Writing program in fiction exactly a year ago today. Although I’d thought about it for almost twenty years, the timing never felt justifiable. How could I devote 25 hours a week to an academic program when I already had achieved a measure of literary success without an Masters in Fine Arts? I was gone from home too much as it was, traveling around for gigs. Pandemic or not, I have always had to scramble to make a living in my patchwork career of teaching, writing, recording and performing, so who has time for school? I still have fairly young children at home who need me and with whom I need and want to spend time. Also, my husband. I like him a lot, and it would be nice to stay married. Last but not least, I don’t need a degree. I don’t want to work in an institution. I have my own institution, and I’m a pretty avid perpetual learner without an advisor breathing down my neck, bothering me with their opinions.
I think this way when I hear Paul or Prue natter on with what can seem like outsized passion about the exactitude required to make a meringue sculpture or a free-form pie crust out of flour and suet. Or when they say, “If I closed my eyes, I would really love this, but it needs to look good too, and it just falls a little short.”
Oh, boo hoo hoo! I yell at the TV. It’s fucking dessert, people! It’s hardly a life requirement!
At that moment, I looked at the well-worn copy of Angle of Repose dangling in my right hand, and at the piles of manuscript papers to my left––evidence of my second novel-in-progress, about eighty pages of undigested scenes. And I thought, Well, what is novel writing if not dessert?
Strangely, I’ve never had this question when it comes to writing songs. From the age of five, I have always believed that songwriters are anointed with the most important—and difficult—job on the planet. I live in awe of the magic that produces a tiny portable slice of literary and musical art that can become as omnipresent and personal as an earworm or as rare and unique as a single performance of a tune you can’t quite remember—but you’ll never forget the feeling you had when you first heard it.
A song is a message in a bottle, an avatar, a light and lovely virus that infects the population of the world and reproduces indefinitely. I feel grateful for every single song that’s allowed me to write it. A song can change the world, change hearts and minds, involve the entire body the way no other art form can. I dare anyone to challenge me on this. Only theatre comes close to being so universally accessible with its full-bodied opportunities for individual interpretation. But songs, because they are so short and easily memorized, are more efficient. Music gives the words the power of flight, of depth, of soul itself.
Novels, on the other hand, (I grumble at the TV) take years to complete, then years to sell, years to publish, and most writers––even if they are lucky––only have a couple of great books in them.
So why am I torturing myself by trying to write novels? Why not stick to songs?
Well, for one thing, when I lived my life in vans and airplanes, touring the country 340 days out of the year, performing four nights a week, I got to a point where I didn’t want to buy anyone’s album, listen to the radio, or read biographies about musicians. I was tired of songs back then; burned out––almost––on music itself. What I yearned for was an independent book store in the hip side of whatever town in which we’d landed, and in which I could browse for hours. I wanted to fall into a novel, get lost in the world the author had conjured for me. I wanted to read, and then talk with others who had read what I had just read, and maybe write something that had been inspired by the reading.
Novels change minds, hearts and lives, too, after all. I needed to read Beloved, Sing, Unburied, Sing and Giovanni’s Room to understand how the world works, has always worked in this country, in this world. I needed to read Pachinko, Palace Walk, The Golden Notebook, Americanah, Fun Home, White Teeth, City of Angels, Department of Speculation, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; not to mention James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austin, Hawthorne, Faulkner, Erica Jong, Margaret Atwood, Ann Patchett, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Dave Eggers, Tommy Orange, Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan, and on and on and on, all the way back to Little Women and Goodnight, Moon. Reading teaches us empathy and compassion just as surely as music does—at times, even more powerfully and directly.
Poor Stacey was booted out in the semi-finals for being too whimsical, too much a suburban mom who loved flamingos and the color hot pink. I, after my essay got to be 16 pages, gave up on trying to get it right––I was in too deep to start over, and too tired to ask for an extension, which is what I would have needed to make it shorter and more cohesive. It did what it needed to for me, reading really like a well-written discussion with my advisor. Writing the essay clarified my own thinking about narrative structure, timelines, protagonist consciousness, not to mention gave me tremendous respect for Stegner, Adichie and Ishiguro. so I pressed send and moved on.
Sometimes I notice, as Paul is scolding a baker standing before him, wringing her hands, because she’s just botched her pastry crust, or failed to adequately proof her dough, he has a look in his eye that is almost beseeching. You need to….he starts, and as he’s telling the less-experienced-than-himself-baker what her mistake was, what she should have done, it occurs to me that he desperately wants this real life baker––all of his contestants–– to learn, to grow, to become the very best versions of themselves, and that the best moments in my academic career might just come when I expose my weaknesses to a teacher who cares deeply about the precision that any art or practice requires. From Paul’s point of view, it is this passion for the art, the word, the music, the cake, that truly distinguishes artists. Indeed. A great artist is painstaking about every detail of her work, details that 95% of her readership, audience, viewers, listeners will miss. No matter. She can go to sleep knowing she has integrity, that she has created something for which she takes full responsibility. When she wakes the next day, she can begin something new, or return to the unfinished mess, with renewed resolve to continue to love those words, that song, that cake until it can’t become any more wholly itself.
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The Library’s imaging studio is home to two full-time photographers and a studio supervisor. We handle the high end digitisation of a variety of collection items for public orders, digitising projects and other library requests. A day in the studio is never dull.
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Fall convocation opens each academic year with a formal celebration of scholarship and innovation. A bookend to commencement, convocation is an annual event open to university faculty, staff, students and friends. This annual event features an academic procession and a keynote speaker.
Fall convocation 2012 begins at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 at Severance Hall. This event is free and open to the public. Free tickets will be available later this summer by contacting the Severance Hall box office.
Self-taught inventor William Kamkwamba fought against economic hardship and stood up to skeptical neighbors to bring electricity to his home in Malawi with a homemade wind turbine. He chronicles his story in this year’s common reading selection—The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope.
The Cuyahoga County Public Library will be sponsoring book discussions in advance of William Kamkwamba’s appearance. Dates and times are still being determined—please check this site for updates.
Tuesday, August 23rd / 7:00 p.m.
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These discussions are free and open to the public. Books available for check out from the branch. Please visit cuyahogalibrary.org or call the host branch to register.
Self-taught inventor William Kamkwamba, author of this year’s common reading selection The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, will deliver the keynote address at fall convocation. Learn more about the featured speaker.

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The City of Austin held a public meeting Monday to consider spending more than $500 million to add more green energy to the power grid.
“We have a goal of getting our carbon footprint down to 1995 levels by 2020,” Austin Energy General Manager Larry Weis said.
The proposed expenditure would go towards building two massive solar farms in West Texas. Using power generated there, existing wind energy, and by phasing out the Fayette County coal power plant, Austin Energy says they will provide 35 percent of their customers’ power from renewable sources.
“We have a 200 megawatt goal of solar resources,” Weis said. “This is moving us towards fulfilling that goal. In fact, we’ll exceed it.”
The move would point Austin Energy in a greener direction, but how would it impact your electric bill?
“The key point is there will not be an increase in customers’ rates due to these acquisitions,” Weis said. Leaving a greener future for the next generation, and keeping a bit of extra green in your wallet.
“We’re reducing the carbon that we use overall in serving our customers,” Weis said. “It’s good for the environment, and it does not raise their bill. In fact, it may lower it a little bit.”
City Councilors will vote on the solar energy purchase on Thursday.

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Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marshall Kilpatric, a.k.a. Der Baron M. Kilpatric has spent the past two-plus decades as a drummer for a number of different bands including Black Light Burns, The Esoteric, Seaspin, Kylesa, F-Minus, Today is the Day and others.
Kilpatric stepped away from the music industry for several years to refocus and evolve in other areas of his life. Back in 2020, the grizzled music industry veteran began to step out into the limelight as a solo artist when he started his recording project The Behaviour, a representation of the sounds, harmonies and noises he has heard in his head and ringing in his ears for quite some time.
The project’s full-length debut, A Sin Dance is slated for a September 15, 2023 release. While the project — and in turn, its full-length but — has been brought to life with a vision of artistic integrity, passion and substance informed by his decades of experience and intuition. The album’s material is meant to be a cathartic, a medicine for melancholy, a remedy for repressed emotion, an enlightenment for evolving senses, Kilpatric explains.
A Sin Dance‘s latest single “Burning of the Neon Dream,” is a slithering and serpentine-like track that brings Queens of the Stone Age and Josh Homme‘s The Desert Sessions to mind with the song being built around arena rock friendly power chords and enormous, remarkably catchy hooks.


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Morgan Stanley's former chairman and former president reiterated a call yesterday for the ouster of current CEO Philip Purcell, stating...
NEW YORK — Morgan Stanley’s former chairman and former president reiterated a call yesterday for the ouster of current CEO Philip Purcell, stating that a management shake-up announced earlier in the day was not in the best interests of the company.
Purcell said he was replacing President Stephan Newhouse with two co-presidents, Morgan Stanley veterans Stephen Crawford and Zoe Cruz. The move, according to a Morgan Stanley statement, would provide new oversight of the company’s institutional securities and investment management operations.
However, a group of former executives and major shareholders, led by former Chairman Parker Gilbert and former President Robert Scott, said the restructuring could result in the loss of other executives.
The group also released a letter, dated March 3, sent to the current Morgan Stanley board calling for Purcell’s departure. The group blamed Purcell for the company’s lagging stock price and financial performance.
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“We believe that the overriding cause of the firm’s poor performance is a failure of leadership by Philip Purcell as the firm’s CEO,” the March 3 letter said.
A spokesman for Morgan Stanley did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the shareholders’ statement. A spokesman for the group of shareholders and former executives also did not return a call seeking comment.
Shares of Morgan Stanley, which had risen shortly after the new co-presidents were named, tumbled in afternoon trading once the former executives’ statement and previous letter were released. They fell $1.87, or 3.4 percent, to close at $53.61 yesterday. Shares have been trading in a range of $46.54 to $60.51 over the past 12 months.
The firm reported strong first-quarter growth, with profits up 20 percent. Investors, however, failed to push the shares higher amid concerns that the company was too focused on fixed-income earnings and commodities.
In the statement announcing the management changes, Purcell said Crawford and Cruz would have responsibility for institutional securities, as well as individual investor and investment-management groups.
He emphasized that the goal was improving performance.
“The appointment of a new generation of leaders for our integrated securities businesses reaffirms our commitment to building long-lasting shareholder value,” he said.
The former executives, however, said the restructuring “was not responsive” to their concerns.


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Hello, my name is Savanna. This year has been an important year for me in politics because I actually started to listen. My main concern is homosexual rights. This is a topic that hits home with me. Another concern I have is abortion. This is a concern to me because I’m pro-choice and I feel strongly that women should have the right to decide about their own bodies and something so personal.
When I was nine years old my Father told my sister and I he was gay. At the time I didn’t really understand why he got so upset when he listened to the people talk on the T.V. Now I do. Our country says everyone should have equal rights but they don’t back up what they say. Ask yourself this, why shouldn’t I love my father for who he is. Why should I judge him for who he WANTS to be. In 2002 my father met a man. They dated for two years and found out they wanted to be together forever. They wanted to too marry but they couldn’t because the law our country has. My father had to fly all the way to Canada to be with the one he loved. Now he’s happily married to a man, my stepfather and I’m happy about it. Why shouldn’t everyone else be happy for him? If your daughter decided to be a lesbian would you shun her from your family, or would you try to understand? If that happened would you try to change the law then, so your daughter could be happy? I bet you would. People who oppose homosexual marriage, don’t know what love is. They’re so closed minded that they don’t understand how they feel. They think if people are not like them they shouldn’t have equal rights. But I have one thing to say. No one is the same.
Abortion. Pro-life or Pro-choice? Personally I’m pro-choice. I believe that women should have the right to say what happens to there bodies to a certain extent. If you’re over three months into your pregnancy you shouldn’t be able to get an abortions, if you go out and have unprotected sex without thinking abortion should not be an option. It makes me so mad when people think getting an abortion is doing the devil’s work. Its not. If a teenage girl goes out one night with her friends and she’s on her way home and she gets raped is she supposed to have the baby if she gets pregnant? Is she going to want the baby as an everyday reminder? No. Not to mention the therapy she’s going to have to go to. It’s just too much to handle. I don’t see why anyone would want to put a girl through that.
As you can see I feel very strongly about these two topics and I hope you take what I say to heart. It would mean a lot to my dad and I if you tried to change the way the people of the United States perspective on life and the way we choose to do things.

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Chili Mustard Onions, has officially opened its doors in the Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit, bringing vegan New York seaside staples — Coney Island style hot dogs to the Midwest. Traditional Coney Island hot dogs are meat-based. They’re served with chili and topped with yellow mustard, white onion, and sometimes cheese.
But the new restaurant, owned by husband and wife Pete and Shelle LaCombe, and their daughter Darla, is covering all of the bases without the meat.
The family told Detroit Free Press that they were excited to officially open the doors to the public after holding an invitation-only soft opening. Pete said, “It’s been such a long journey, but the build-out is done and this is what I was born to do.”
Pete, who is also the head chef, became vegan around six years ago. He has always loved cooking. At sixteen, he worked at a steakhouse and regularly cooked with his grandparents.
“We were always talking about food we were going to miss,” he said about his transition to veganism. “We loved coneys, and I experimented with making them [vegan] and it turned out great.”
Chili Mustard Onions’ vegan dogs have been praised by customers, with several customers rating them five stars on Facebook, and one in particular writing, “I’m beyond impressed! Everything tastes like the real deal.”
Since the opening, the restaurant has received much support, even selling out of food on some days. LaCombe took to Facebook to say: “Hello everyone, I am absolutely blown away by the incredible amount of love and support for our first week open.” He also added that “We are a very small family owned restaurant… and I make all my sauces and chili every morning.”
The restaurant also offers vegan Hani – a sandwich created at National Coney Island restaurants with chicken tenders – burgers, chili fries, and gyro. There is also a children’s menu for the little ones, gluten-free options for coeliacs, and a liquor license for the adults.
The Chili Mustard Onions restaurant is located at 3411 Brush Street, Detroit, and will be open from 12 am- 5 pm Monday-Saturday.
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Banking & Cannabis: The Next Frontier WebinarClient Alert
On Tuesday, September 21st, BMD’s own Banking and Cannabis Partner, Stephen Lenn, hosted a star-studded cast of panelists in a webinar titled Banking & Cannabis: Cannabis Lending, The Next Frontier. The webinar, which had to suspend registrations when hitting a maximum cap of 500, aimed to explore issues related to cannabis and banking, with a particular emphasis on lending. With the sponsorship and support of the Bankers Associations of Arizona, Colorado, Ohio and Utah, Steve was able to recruit an elite group of bankers, bank regulators, cannabis industry players, and cannabis regulators, who took the topic head on. The discussion kicked off with an opening from the keynote speaker, VP of Congressional Affairs for the American Bankers Association, Tanner Daniel.
Mr. Daniel opened the panel discussion with an observation that even though he never envisioned being involved in cannabis lobbying, yet the political climate and rapidly changing laws of cannabis thrust him into the space. With that, Mr. Daniel discussed the realities of passing the various pieces of legislation currently pending at the federal level, but a pervasive theme followed his comments and the rest of the conversation – banking the cannabis industry is here, and it going to keep moving forward!
From there, the discussion was passed onto the panel of bankers, industry players, and regulators who addressed banking and cannabis from their points of view. The robust conversation ranged from how bankers got into the business, their experience with regulators, how they perform risk-based assessments to categorize certain cannabis businesses when providing bank services, to issues facing cannabis executives and employees who are trying to obtain personal loans and mortgages, then topped off the discussion by describing how cannabis regulators interact with financial institutions throughout the licensing process.
The webinar ultimately created several important results. First, the program brought together prominent constituencies in the banking and cannabis space which will facilitate greater collaboration and future successes among those stakeholders. Second, it provided actionable information to the attendees – about 75% of whom were bankers representing more than 200 banks, including a dozen of the 56 largest. Finally, even if measured only by the level of interest reflected by capacity registration, it substantiates the almost inevitable expansion of banking for the cannabis industry – and that everyone must be ready.
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The Kosovo Liberation Army was formed during the mid-1990s by Kosovo Albanians seeking independence from Serbia and the creation of a monoethnic state. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008.
According to different estimates, currently at least 500 KLA veterans are fighting in the ranks of Daesh in Syria.
"Compared to the entire population of Kosovo, this number is the fifth-largest among other European countries. Many of the KLA veterans fighting for Daesh receive payments from the Kosovar budget which regularly funded by the US, the EU and the IMF," journalist Brankica Ristic wrote for Sputnik Serbia.
Currently, there are 46,000 KLA veterans in Kosovo. A list was made up to identify those who deserve pensions from the budget. The IMF unveiled €106 million ($113 million) for the initiative.
The first payments were made in 2015. Some 12,000 former KLA members, who fought against the Yugoslavian government and law enforcement agencies in the 1990s, received €170 ($181) each.
The Kosovar budget for 2017 is €2 billion ($2.1 billion), including money to transform the Kosovo security forces into full-fledged armed forces, which will be funded by the IMF.
However, the IMF does not want to give money for pensions for 46,000 KLA veterans. The fund asked Pristina to clarify the number of veterans. The government hopes that if the IMF rejected to give the money the US could do. But the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election has put this into question.
"After the 1999 war Kosovo received $3.8 billion of international aid. According to different sources, between 2000 and 2010 the region received up to $40 billion. Part of this money could have been paid to those fighting now in the ranks of Daesh," the journalist wrote.

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Mr. Marco Jewelers
Open Monday thru Saturday. Fine jewelry. Custom creations.
Fine cigars, gourmet coffee, boutique wine. Featuring the #1 coffee imported from Italy. Largest cigar selection in the Midwest.
With an old-fashioned general store feel, Schenk's Market offers fresh meats, groceries and refreshments for weary travelers.
Jennings Cards and Currency
Coins, sport cards, books, postcards, stamps, gold and silver. We buy, sell, trade and appraise.
Louis Vuitton will certainly catch your eye on Michigan Avenue with their signature LV monogram, luxurious leather goods, and avant-garde fashions.
Engel's Jewelry and Clock Repair
Complete jewelry repair (ring resizing, stone setting, etc.), watch and clock repair, battery replacement and bead and pearl restringing. Open: Monday - Wednesday: 9 am to 4 pm
Check out Puma’s complete line of sports apparel for men and women at its innovative new Block 37 store.
Don Rodger's Boutique
Operating since 1976, Don Rodger's Boutique offers a wide variety of men's and women's clothing and accessories. Don Rodger's clothing is fun, unique, and timeless. Also, Don Rodger's has one of the largest selections of sansabelts in the Metro, St. Louis area.
Trellis Farm & Garden
Your local Purina Feed Dealership offering the best in equine, small animal and wild bird needs. The new face of feed, seed and urban gardening.
Dick Pond Athletics
Dick Pond Athletics is America's running shoe store specializing in footwear, clothing and accessories for runners, walkers and triathletes. Open daily. Across from Salerno's on the Fox Restaurant on Second Street (Rt. 31)
Becky Beck's Jewelry Store
Becky Beck’s Jewelry Store has been serving the DeKalb, Il area since 1992. Owner-operated, Becky and her expert staff are committed to providing their clients a comfortable, enjoyable jewelry buying experience, guided by a professional, knowledgeable Associate.
King's Mill Refinishing
Beautiful hand-rubbed finishes, brass & metal polishing & repair, hand painting & stenciling, gold leafing, hand carving, woven cane, Rush splint & wicker, upholstery & slip covers, and hand-tied Oriental rugs.
We are a flower & gift shop, garden center, landscape, nursery, patio and grill shop. We can landscape and decorate your home, your garden ... your life! Flower arrangements for any occasion.
Engraving by Lin
Engraving plaques, trophies, and name plates.
The Wood Shed
Choose your furniture wood, style, size, and hand mixed color. No particle board. Surprisingly moderate prices.
Gaby's Gift Gallery
Gaby's Gift Gallery offers art and craft supplies, acrylic paints, artists brushes, modeling mediums, paper mache polymer, clay, tin shapes, wood cut-outs, and more. Also, gift wrap, greeting cards, and stationary.
Sporting goods retailer and team sales. Equipment and apparel for baseball, softball, soccer, football, basketball, and volleyball.
Fantasy Costumes Headquarters/Custom Wigs
More than one million items fill a block-long store of fun and fantasy. Must see it to believe it. Thousands of costumes for all occasions and seasons. Vast selection of fun and everyday wigs, makeup, masks, novelties, accessories, Santa Claus, Easter bunny, passion plays, Purim, Mardi Gras and patriotic costumes for every season or whatever the event. Theatre, film, corporate and sports-themed events. We can handle it all. Open daily. Sales & rental.
A small, family owned and operated butcher shop that has been in business in Freeport since 1929 - Celebrating over 80 years of home-raised beef and pork. Enjoy individual cuts, quarters and sides. Locally raised lamb, custom butchering and deer processing.
The Black Orchid Boutique
The Black Orchid Boutique has fashionable apparel, jewelry and footwear for women.
Open daily. A shop of home furnishings.
Starved Rock Marketplace
The Starved Rock Marketplace is home to Cattails Gift Shop, The Starved Rock Inn (a seasonal, roadside Inn) and Chillin' On 6 (artisan ice cream and gelato). You'll find unique gifts, gourmet food, candles, floral arrangements, jewelry, home decor, garden accessories, signature Starved Rock Wines and more.
Belgian Chocolatier Piron
Gourmet Belgian style chocolates mad fresh on the premises. A Belgian-trained Master Chocolatier provides authentic recipes and uses only the finest and freshest ingredients. Only fresh cream and butter are used.
Come visit our unique Catholic Gift Store. Not only do we carry books and bibles, but we offer gifts from Russia, Yugoslavia, USA, and The Holy Land. Our "made in Freeport" assortment of crosses are a must see, and every inch of the store is filled with our rich tradition and faith. Our selections serve all denominations. We pride ourselves in the selection of jewelry, nativities, pictures, music, videos, rosaries, and baby items. We carry first communion dress as well as baptismal gowns. Yard statues make great house warming gifts. You will be greeted and welcomed by the friendly staff of Mary's Mantle. Open: Tuesday thru Friday: 10 am - 5 pm; Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm.
Nostalgia Decorating Co.
Fine home interior decorations. China, crystal, Christmas ornaments, cooking ingredients, candles and pictures.
Down On The Farm Toys and More
This shop offers 3000 square feet of toys including farm toys and farm related collectibles. All makes and models are featured. Plus they offer peddle tractors, dolls, "Melissa and Doug" puzzles, music and jewelry boxes, signs, pictures, games, canvas art, clothes and many more items. Open: Wednesday thru Friday: 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday: 10 am to 4 pm
Besides creams and clusters and toffee and caramels, The Confectionary also make hard to find pieces including divinity, chocolate dipped ginger, sponge candy (seasonally) and sugar free chocolate clusters (made with real chocolate). Their batches are small and much of the work is done the old fashioned way: by hand.
Skin Deep Day Spa and Salon
Skin Deep offers facials, microdermabrasion, make-up application, waxing, massage therapy, and reflexology. Skin Deep also carries the most up-to-date beauty products.
Granny's Nook has a wide variety of gifts and collectibles.
Select consignment, antique store with items for home, garden and more.
The Wolf's Den
This awesome new store features Marshfield Furniture's Woodlands collection offering sofas, chairs in fabulous nature designs, leathers, authentic Pendleton wools, plaids and solids.
Unique clothing for petite, misses, and plus sizes.
Wilson Home Furnishings
Wilson's has furniture, draperies and curtains, rugs, appliances, and kitchen cabinets for your home.
Deininger Floral Shop
Deininger's offers flowers for all occasions with both traditional and contemporary designs, fresh-cut flowers, blooming plants, green plants, planters, and gift items. Open: Monday thru Friday: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm; Saturday: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Mrs. Mike's Potato Chips
Mrs. Mike's old-fashioned, open-kettle style potato chips are cooked in vegetable shortening with no cholesterol to provide a great potato taste. They also offer gourmet cheesy popcorn and caramel corn. The Freeport Pretzel Company, and other party/picnic items are also for sale at the factory retail store. Open: Monday thru Friday: 9 am - 5 pm; Saturday: 9 am - 2 pm.
Wool & Company
Wool and Company is a full service knitting and crochet store with an extensive gift selection. We spread our love of knitting in a fun, creative and informative way.
Thousands of sweets for the young and the young at heart. Connect your candy choices to your personality - that's your Candyality!
Hy-Vee operates more than 230 retail stores in eight Midwestern states, including Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
New Copperfield's Book Service
Adult, youth, and children's books. Special orders available.
Something Special Florist
Something Special Florist offers floral bouquets, silk and fresh floral arrangements, a large variety of gifts and collectibles including Crosley Reproductions, 1800s antique furniture and Abe Lincoln memorabilia. Also, on on-site, all-year Christmas room and wine room with a variety of outstanding wines from California to Illinois.
S G Too
Select consignment and antique store. Everything for the home and garden.
Clarks offers a wide array of comfortable, stylish footwear and accessories for every occasion.
The very best breads, bagels, donuts, muffins, cinnamon rolls, scones, coffee cakes and cookies baked fresh each day. Soups and sandwiches also available.
Community Thrift Store
Cathrine's Custom Framing Gallery & Gifts
One of a kind and handmade items fill the gallery. Find yourself strolling among pottery, jewelry and beautiful photography. You can find your favorite goodies with a selection of chocolates, jellies and butters and more. 85% of items sold are from artisans in the county.
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
Used, out-of-print & antiquarian books in great condition. Browse 35 subjects! First editions, signed, collectible, plus historical autographs/maps. Member ABAA/PADA.
Blue Violet BodyworksSpa
Facials, manicures, pedicures, body polish, haircuts, massage and more.
Gifts and jewelery. Also J.C. Penney catalog.
There is a caring in people who cook that leads them out to the kitchen time and again. Those of us who "Love to Cook and Cook to Love" will find ourselves right at home at Penzeys Spices. Stop by for a visit soon.
Geneva Running Outfitters
Experience a unique approach to fulfill all of your running & walking needs with personalized shoe fittings, apparel and accessories.
Unique gift shop featuring holiday seasonal and everyday decor. We also carry several lines of jewelry, Carlibe clothing, Melissa & Doug toys, Leggy Karr glassware and Feed the World dinnerware. Many more items, too numerous to list, are available year-round.
Dreams has it all: clothing, jewelry, accessories, shoes and the expertise to achieve the desired look for your busy life.
An Artisan Bread Bakery featuring a delicious variety of fresh-baked breads, buns and more. Breadsmith is open Tuesday through Sunday. Stop in and see what makes us the special choice of bread lovers!
Elite Design Team Salon & Day Spa
Full-service salon and day spa offering complete hair styling, nails, wigs, waxing, piercing, electrolysis, massage, facials, and body treatments.
D & H Florist & Candle Shop
D & H has a large selection of wonderful flowers and beautiful candles.
Shearer's World of Variety
Downtown retail store -- antiques and collectibles.
The Little Traveler - Geneva
This historic mansion features 36 rooms filled with treasures from around the world and a history over 80 years in the making.
Cheesekeeper is a small town shop with a big city taste and offers a large variety of wines and gourmet cooking items.
Designs on the Boulevard
A quaint boutique offering unique, high-quality home decor and latest trends offering inspiration for your decorating needs. Select from a variety of jewelry, scarves and floral arrangements both fresh and dried. A visit that offers a lot of things to sparkle and delight you.
Contemporary and traditional literature. Outstanding service and selection make Barbara's a browser's paradise.
Cascade Gardens Poultry & Eggs
This is more than the typical greenhouse with beautiful plants and the array of colors amaze you. This is a farm family raising chickens for eggs and meat, offering the “hands-on” experience to see what it is like to “be with the chickens!” In the fall, this is a fun place to go for mums and pumpkins, and they also have fall decorations. Open April-September. Groups are welcome.
Arlington Heights Downtown Business Association
Stroll through our 8-block Downtown Business Association and find a great array of shops, many of which have provided quality services to our community for decades. The Downtown Business Association is home to a pharmacy and grocery store, to jewelry stores and art galleries, to clothing stories and home décor boutiques. Transportation services are also available if you wish to take in other Chicagoland sites.
Priscilla's Parlor is now located inside Roadhouse Antiques in Creston in a quaint shop located on Hwy 38. We carry a mix of antiques, vintage, primitives, collectibles, shabby-chic and jewelry, just to name a few.
Mississippi Mud Pottery
Natural clay materials are molded and crafted right before your eyes into creative, functional stoneware pottery. Choose from a wide variety of handmade pieces to enjoy in everyday settings or as decorative objects. A popular item are the ceramic fish. Actual fish that have been caught on a hook and line are used to create a mold and clay is used to reproduce a likeness of the fish. After firing, the clay is glazed and natural or artistic colorations are applied. The finished piece is a unique one of a kind piece - a reminder of the one that did not get away! Open Wednesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday, noon to 4 p.m.
Sweet Ashley's Cottage
Antiques, vintage, retro and rustic home decor. Custom refinished & repurposed furniture. Unique gifts. Open Thursday- Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Located within easy walking distance of the Millikin University campus, the Oakwood Business District is home to restaurants, salons and specialty shops at the intersection of West Main, Wood Street and Oakland Avenue. Watch your favorite team on the big screen while sampling Southwestern fare, or choose from an extensive wine list to complement a savory Italian dish. After lunch, check out bikes and gear, order flowers, get a haircut, or even unwind and relax with a soothing massage.
Harvard Antique Emporium
Come see our selection of antiques. Something for everybody's taste.
Mystical Mountain Jewelry & More
Located in Conover Square Mall, 2nd floor. Carrying finished gemstone jewelry making supplies & gifts. Also offer beaded jewelry repair, custom jewelry creation, and jewelry-making classes.
Antiques, flowers, plants, and misc. gifts.
Conover Square Mall
Old piano factory converted into small shopping mall.
Mueller's has a large selection of great antiques.
The Book Table
Over 60,000 discounted new and used titles. All books in the store are at least 20% off the cover price -- the majority of titles are 40% to 50% off. Particular strengths in art, photography, architecture, literature, history and kids books.
Hall's Jewelry & Gifts
An elegant shop filled with jewelry and gifts for you or that special someone.
One Eleven Main
A great selection of local Galena products and unique items to meet your entertainment needs.
The Loft features all sorts of adorable gifts, whatever the occasion. From their assortment of picture frames, candles, and baby items to gourmet coffee, dips and desserts, you won't want to miss shopping here! Come thirsty! the Loft also features a vast assortment of coffees, smoothies, iced lattes and more.
Tom's Vegetable Market
Seasonal - April through December. Garden center featuring baskets, fresh produce, bakery and gift shop, and a fall festival.
Steel Heart Ltd.
Practical and stylish home and garden products for today's changing lifestyles!
Frugality NFP is a charitable thrift shop in which most items are 99 cents each and all profits are given to a different local charity every month. Frugality has thousands of items including family clothing, house wares, home decor, books, purses, shoes, and more. We are always replenishing the stock for sale.
Sweet Revival Antiques
Located in Kings, Illinois this coffee/antique shop, located in a historic church, is open every week Wednesday through Saturday and hours are Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 8-2 and Friday 8-6. We have packaged gourmet coffees, sweets, and antiques all in a beautiful, historic building.
Fine gifts and ladies casual to business apparel.
Ridgefield Antique Dealers
Escape for the ordinary! A blend of dealers featuring quality, affordable American and English antiques including oak, pine, walnut & mahogany, quilts, china, glassware & unusual antique accessories.
Legendary Creations Candle & Gift Shop
Legendary Creations offers Yankee candles and accessories, greeting cards, collectibles, home decor, and Caswell Massey.
Irish Imports Teahan's
Selling gifts with an Irish flavor since 1965. Belleek china, Galway crystal, clothing, jewelry, souvenirs, tweed hats and caps, musical cottages, etc.
Perspective Group and Photography Gallery
A community-oriented, not-for-profit cooperative that promotes fine art photography through exhibitions, critiques, workshops and outreach activities. The gallery represents the work of fine art photographers from the Chicagoland area, and sponsors LENS, an international, juried photography show on an annual basis.
The Sisters Jeanette & Elaine have been practicing the art of waxing for over 30 years and certainly love what they do. Friendly estheticians were trained by the Sisters and regularly update their techniques to give you the best services anywhere. Sisters invite you to come Discover Yourself and experience our one of a kind services for yourself.
Rite-Way Furniture and Appliance
Home furnishings, accessories, furniture, appliances, bedding and carpet.
TAKARA features eclectic offerings from one-of-a-kind jewelry, animated and spirited apparel, to international upscale designers, global jewelry, handbags, shoes and more! There's no need to travel to Europe for the latest looks because TAKARA brings the excitement and latest fashions to you.
Owned by Kevin Denney, this family name means quality. A large selection of jewelry and jewelry repair is offered in-house. Custom orders are also taken.
Stephenson County Farmers Market
Enjoy this farmers market offering fresh produce, homemade baked goods, local honey and so much more. May 14 thru October 29: Saturday: 8:00 am - 1:00 pm; Tuesday: Noon - 4:00 pm
Dress Barn/ Dress Barn Woman -- Tanger Outlet Center
Size 2 to 26 casual and career clothing.
Main Street Wine Cellar
We offer wines, specialty beers, cheese and chocolates. You can bring in food or have it delivered, and we can pair it with wine from our selection, or you can choose your own.
Chameleon is a unique, fun and fashionable clothing boutique in the heart of the Avenue shopping district of Oak Park. Both men and women will find selections of hip, artsy apparel and accessories at this independently owned store.
Located on Chicago's Magnificent Mile, Mark Shale is the premier clothier for both men and women.
Olive & Well
Olive & Well offers a Tasting Experience you won't soon forget. Featuring the best selection of the most flavorful Olive Oils from around the world and authentic Balsamic Vinegars de Modena Italy; including 18-year-old Traditional style. Our offerings include those from both Northern and Southern hemisphere small-batch groves. Enjoy your favorite and watch as it is bottled before your eyes in a beautiful souvenir bottle. Located in Historic Oak Park in the Scoville Square at Lake St. & Oak Park Avenue. Come join the fun at 133 N. Oak Park Avenue or visit us at www.oliveandwell.com We ship throughout the U.S. Everyday is a "Tasting Experience".
Illinois Livestock Auction
This livestock auction includes the sale of cattle, horses, goats and sheep.
For over a decade, Towne Rebel has been offering an eclectic mix of women's clothing, home decor and small furnishings. French country home décor. Hand-knit, cotton sweaters. Timeworks, Inc. clocks. Quilted linens for tables/bedding. Decorative/usable canister sets for kitchen.

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Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series: Treatment of Leg Veins by Murad Alam, MD and Sirunya Silapunt, MD, offers practical, step-by-step visual guidance as well as expert hints and tips for performing a full range of cosmetic procedures including ambulatory phlebectomy, sclerotherapy, foam sclerotherapy, and laser surgery. Edited by the foremost pioneers in the field, this edition provides coverage of timely topics and advancements and includes new chapters on ultrasound techniques and compression. Case studies with more "before and after" clinical photographs depict cases as they present in practice and enables you to immediately implement the newest surgical procedures into your practice. Optimize outcomes and improve your technique with guidance about common pitfalls and "tricks of the trade" from practically minded, technically skilled, hands-on clinicians. Implement the newest surgical procedures into your practice with the guidance of an expanded, comprehensive collection of techniques. Stay current with the emerging topics and newest developments in cosmetic surgery. New chapters cover the latest ultrasound-guided procedures and compression techniques. See things as they appear in practice thanks to an abundance of color illustrations and case studies, including more "before and after" clinical photographs.


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The Pet-Death Business
On animal cremation and burial in New York:
Riding around Manhattan on a delivery run with a car full of pet cremains, it's hard not to look at the world differently. The omnipresence of pets becomes glaringly obvious, and their inevitable fate is never far from the mind. It's easy to imagine the whippet being jaywalked across Eighth Avenue getting hit by a car. The cocker spaniel on 23rd Street? A bucket of cocker bones in the making.


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More people within the UK are taking part in NHS clinical research than at any point in the past, according to statistics released by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Over 725,000 people participated in clinical research last year, up from 665,000 the previous year. Numbers of people in commercial research rose by 45% to over 50,000 participants within the same timeframe.
The figures indicate that the UK is seen as an important location for conducting clinical trials, helping to produce access to new medicines and devices as well as answers to research questions.
Dr Jonathan Sheffield, chief executive officer of the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN), stated
“Partnerships between the NHS and the life sciences industry bring a range of benefits to the healthcare sector – giving trusts access to new treatments and funding for health research, while also boosting the wider economy each year through the development of cutting edge medical innovations.”
Trusts have a financial incentive to produce research, receiving on average £6,500 per study conducted, which may be a contributing factor to the increase.


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- kitkat40 - A moving story about second chances...First of all... I was very moved by the author's acknowledgements at the end of the book and his explanation of how he became inspired to write this story. I could relate to his story on a personal level because I had a similar experience after my father died. And, perhaps that is why I was so moved by this book in general... it tapped into emotions that I had not felt in a long while. I encourage you to take a minute to read it...
This is not a story about zombies... or the end of the world... so if you're looking for the apocalypse you will not find it in this book! This is a story about second chances, faith, forgiveness, acceptance and letting go.
What if we had a second chance to be with those we have loved and lost? How would we react if they were suddenly standing in front of us? And, how would humanity react if suddenly this were happening all over the world?
Most of the story takes place in the small town of Arcadia where we follow the journey of an old couple who are suddenly reunited with their returned son John. John drowned when he was 8 yrs. old back in 1966. The couple struggles with coming to terms with what he actually is and why he has returned.
As the world begins to fill up with more and more of the returned there is panic, fear and chaos. Everyone is trying to understand why and how this is happening and the world is getting very crowded. The returned are being killed, arrested and finally rounded up and sent to camps until governments can decide what to do with them.
The best way for me to describe this story without giving too much away is to just say that humanity had to just let the miracle happen and allow it to serve it's purpose. When the returned were finally allowed to fulfill their purpose then it became clear as to why they were there. So, for me it was more of a story of faith. Miracles can't always be explained or understood. We just have to accept them for the gifts and message they provide.
I do think this book will mean more to those who have lost someone very close to them. Those of us who have know that we would give anything for just one more day... one more chance... to remember.
There were many moments throughout this story that touched my heart and brought me to tears. This is definitely a book for those who love to have their emotions tugged on. I love a book that makes me cry and makes me smile and leaves me with a sense of closure that makes me feel good. This book did just that...
This was a hard review to write because it touched me in ways that are hard to put into words... but simply put...I loved it! So, there you go!
- Mamochka - Wow- couldn't put it downI read this book in two days. I'm so tired of reading formulaic mysteries/thrillers, where I can guess the ending before the author even writes it, but this is not the case with this book! One of the many things that makes "Still Missing" unique is that it is mainly told through the voice of Annie during sessions with her psychiatrist. Annie sees the doctor to try and put her life back together after being abducted and held captive for a year in a cabin in the mountains.. We never meet the psychiatrist; we just hear Annie reciting the horrors of her year as a mountain woman, held prisoner by a man she refers to as "The Freak," being beaten, raped, and otherwise humiliated. Now that Annie has returned to her hometown of Clayton Falls, she still does not feel safe. Is she? Is there something behind her feeling of unease, or is it just a symptom of post-traumatic stress syndrome? Why was Annie abducted? The very unexpected answers to these questions will leave the reader hoping that Chevy Stevens quickly writes another book.
- Ericson - I'm glad I tried itA friend recommended I try this for regularity and some inflammation issues I was having. I read that this probiotic is the only one that has had a real clinical trial to test it's effectiveness so I decided to give it a shot. Full disclosure: I'm not a fan of the probiotics cures all culture that seems to surround this stuff, and this was the first probiotic I've ever taken unless you count yogurt :P
Having tried it, it helped my issues in the first week. I don't take it all the time, but whenever things feel out of whack (especially if I go on a bad food binge), align helps my gut flora get back on track.
It's definitely worth a trial run for a week or two.
- David W. Jantz - Not sure where the negativity comes from?I read the reviews and almost decided not to buy it -- I went to their web site and got almost instant customer support? They assured me that they so update regularly - can't understand the many negative feedback - I may be disappointed - but as prompt a they were to respond and squelch my concerns I bought the stamp & coin software - I really don't think I will be disappointed - Will see

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Sushmita Sen was invited to a school as chief guest for a ceremony to felicitate student achievers of the year.
The actress, who made a public appearance after long, broke into a jig on one of her songs, matching steps with students and parents.
SRK-Gauri anniversary: B-Town stars and their non-filmi better halves
Birthday special: Popular mothers and daughters in Bollywood
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I surfed once, in California in my early 20s. I only managed to get on top of 4 waves, but I will never forget the incredible feeling of falling and flying simultaneously. Since then, I've only been on a bodyboard. A doctor, John Kabat-Zinn, uses surfing as an analogy for emotions: "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf them." A surfer named "Buzzy" characterized surfing in a way that relates to all of life: "Waves are not measured in feet and inches, they are measured in increments of fear."
I am intimately acquainted with fear. It is the monster inside that roars at the slightest provocation, sometimes even convincing my terrorized brain that old threats long gone are nipping at my heels. Life feels not only radical as I step into a new reality, a new person, a new way of seeing - it is terrifying. Change of any kind is not a welcome guest in my life, and to change the very structure of my self is breathtakingly scary and uncertain.
Long ago, as a child, I built four sturdy walls in my soul and put a lid on top. It was my Pandora's box, my underground bunker where I could stuff all the bad things in life, all the tears, all the emotions I was too terrified to feel. I remember going into my room once at 10, clenching every muscle in my body and screaming silently. I was afraid that if I let my emotions out, they would destroy everything. As it turns out, avoiding them has nearly done just that.
Every Monday, in land-locked Wisconsin, I have a surfing lesson for one hour. It takes place in an office, not a beach, and the waves I'm surfing are the huge Mavericks - the biggest waves of all time - that come flooding out of that bunker when I take off the lid. Large waves can literally throw a surfer to the bottom of the ocean, turn him in so many somersaults that he can't tell which way is up, scrape his flesh on the coral, and either send him to Davy Jones' locker or toss him up like a fish gasping on the beach. How do you surf those emotions? The biggest ones of your life?
This is how I learned to surf the big ones:
- Don't go it alone. You need a spotter when you're letting a tsunami out of your soul.
- Don't rein it in. Realize it's just an emotion, and it will soon be over. Submit to the fact that you can't change the past and you can't change this giant wave of emotion. You can only ride out to safety.
- Do be well prepared. If you're letting emotions out, sorting through old memories, often it's intentional. It's our human way of processing the good and the bad that happens to us. Make sure you've had good rest, good food, and a good mood most of the day before you purposefully open your Pandora's box.
- Do let yourself be free to express the emotion. You may need to cry, scream, rant, rave, or curl up in a ball. Be somewhere safe for this.
- Do rate your emotional pain. Before you start a session of internal or conversational processing of trauma in your life, rate how painful the memory is at the beginning, on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being low intensity and 10 being high intensity. After you've allowed yourself to surf the wave of emotion that comes with the memory, rate it again. You may find the memory is much less intense once you've allowed yourself to experience the emotions that went with it.
- Do nothing but surf. A real surfer isn't dropping in on a wave thinking about his grocery list. In fact, surfers report that riding a wave is a blissful, meditative experience that fully captures their mind, body and soul. When you're surfing emotional waves, do so at a time you can concentrate fully on the sensations and feelings. Don't do it at work, or on your drive home, or when you have to do something later in the day. Do it when you have plenty of time and brainspace.
- Do remember that emotions never last forever and they generally don't kill you. Emotional waves are always temporary. And they have little power over you once you accept them and let them flow.
Surf's up - who's with me?

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Watching Bristol City's video that was launched late on Tuesday night, you can't miss the steely drive evident in Steve Lansdown's glare.
The club released a 16min 50 long interview with the Robins supremo, an interview that Bristol Liverevealed was recorded last week as head coach Lee Johnson held talks with Lansdown following the 2-1 defeat to Huddersfield Town on the preceding day.
Group head of media Lisa Knights asked the questions as Lansdown discussed initially watching games in the 1980s in the Dolman Stand before he made the move over to the 51 Club in the then Williams Stand, before eventually becoming friends with previous chairman Scott Davidson - all before he joined the board himself and eventually took control of the club.
And Lansdown says he has 'no regrets' of his time in charge of the Robins, picking out his favourite moments including the 2014-15 double-winning season under Steve Cotterill, beating Manchester United in the Carabao Cup Quarter-finals and more.
Lansdown not only discussed City's past, but also the club's future, how Bristol as a city has a bright sporting future, and what he hopes to see.
"The biggest project in my time was the stadium," he revealed. "That's really surpassed my expectations.
"Full marks to Martin Griffiths and his team in coming up with the design for what is basically one of the best stadiums in the country. We developed that.
"I had that saying in my head: I wanted Bristol City to play in the best possible surroundings at the highest possible level.
"So we've created the best possible surroundings to play in. We're now going to create the best possible surroundings to train in.
"And then hopefully we can play at the very highest level: that's the dream, to be in the Premier League," he explained.
Lansdown senior mentioned the long history of the club including speaking on Alan Dicks' great 1970s side that gained promotion to Division One and said that he hopes to 'create more history'.
He also praised the community spirit at the club and the work of the Robins Foundation - 'the hub of the community in South Bristol'.
"Professional sport and football has progressed immensely since those days [of Alan Dicks' team]," he said.
"Sports science and obviously the money aspect is much, much greater these days... We're up against much bigger competition to make that jump.
"But the principle is exactly the same: you build a team that you trust, you build a team that is real mates together - and even now that team [the 1970s side] still comes back to Ashton Gate and spends time together when they can.
"It's that magic moment when it all comes together," said Lansdown who pointed out that Dicks had spent a long time learning his trade as the manager before things all came together and "it worked and he had four great years in Division One". A subtle message of support for Lee Johnson?
Lansdown, who admits that he loves what he does and has no regrets, still believes that Bristol can become a powerhouse of sport in the future.
And he sees no reason why the Robins can't taste success - even at the very top level.
"I can see Bristol City being a Premiership side [sic]. And winning trophies in the Premiership. Why not?" he asked.
"You've got to have that belief and I believe in what we're doing. And I believe in the people involved," he said, giving his support to head coach Lee Johnson, CEO Mark Ashton, and chairman and son Jon Lansdown.

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18:53: The Bruins are hitting the Canes hard here in OT. Good strong rush down the slot by Lucic, but Ward was able to turn away the forehand bid.
18:15: Krejci from behind the net to a rushing Michael Ryder in front, but Ryder fanned on the shot attempt in close.
17:12: Jussi Jokinen goal for the game-winner off a rebound of a Sergei Samsonov shot. More later.
The B’s have lost to the Canes in overtime by a 3-2 score during Game 3 at the RBC Center in Raleigh, NC.
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New Intel handheld chip “as fast as Centrino”
Intel has dropped very broad hints about the performance of its tiny new Silverthorne processor, destined to appear in handheld devices, iPhone competitors and UMPCs next year. But, amazingly, the processor’s design is closer to the obsolete Pentium than the latest Core 2.
Justin Rattner, the company’s chief technology officer, claims the microscopic chip, which consumes as little as 600mW of power, is a “very healthy chip” and “can really crank”.
“I would put the performance in the range of the early Centrino processors,” he says, which suggests handheld devices with the power of a laptop bought around four years ago. The miniscule chip manages to pack 47 million transistors onto a die with an area of just 25 square millimetres.
Surprisingly though, the design isn’t based on Intel’s all-conquering Core 2 architecture. “It’s not based on any core,” says Rattner, adding that Silverthorne is a “ground-up new microarchitecture”.
“We looked very hard at taking Core 2 Duo and bringing it down to sub-1W [power consumption] and concluded that wasn’t feasible… we convinced ourselves that something more reminiscent of Pentium was best for getting into that sub-1W power range.”
The result is a single-core chip that features the HyperThreading (HT) facility found in latter-day Pentium 4 processors. HT gives some of the benefits of multi-core processing, allowing the CPU to execute a second thread of code with parts of the processor currently not being used by the main thread.
And while it’s clear that Silverthorne is nothing like the power-hungry beast that Pentium 4 was, Intel is still coy about giving definite figures on its computing efficiency. “We’re not commenting about performance-per-watt,” adds Rattner.


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Efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans get boost
DETROIT (AP) — Efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in Michigan are getting a boost.
The Michigan State Housing Development Authority Board recently approved a $2 million Housing Development Fund grant for the Michigan Veterans Foundation. The money will support the construction of a new building to house services for veterans in Detroit.
The center will provide an array of services for homeless and low-income veterans in Detroit and southeastern Michigan. MSHDA funding is contingent on the developer securing sufficient operating revenues and community support for the $14 million project.
The board also approved a $750,000 Housing Development Fund grant that provides rental assistance for up to six months to veterans experiencing homelessness. Funds will go to statewide Supportive Services for Veteran Families grantees and Housing Assessment and Resource Agencies.


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The crop sowing guide for Western Australia is a one stop shop for variety information on all the major crops grown in Western Australia.
These pages have been produced as an online user manual for iLime, outlining specific features of the app and how to use them.
Avocado fruits are affected by two diseases: stem end rots and body rots.
Mosaic Agriculture is one of three strategic pillars under the Northern Beef Development project.
Avocado trees are very vigorous and can rapidly overgrow their permitted space in the orchard.
Avocado trees are highly susceptible to attack from the water mould Phytophthora cinnamomi that causes phytophthora root rot.
The State Government has invested $28 million in Doppler Radar technology.
In September 2018, eight growers from Merredin and Districts Farm Improvement group (MADFIG) embarked on a four day ‘Tools and Technology’ study tour interstate.
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Agnes of God, tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth and insists that the dead child was the result of a virgin conception. A psychiatrist and the mother superior of the convent clash during the resulting investigation. The title is a pun on the Latin phrase Agnus Dei (Lamb of God).
The play was filmed in Guelph in 1985, starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly.
The stage play relies solely on the three main characters: Martha, the Psychiatrist; the Mother Superior; and Agnes, the Novice. All three roles are considered demanding for the actors playing them. Martha covers the full gamut of emotion during the play, from nurturer to antagonist, from hard-nosed court psychiatrist and atheist to faith-searching healer. Agnes and the Mother Superior enact flashbacks to events at the convent. The Mother Superior must expound the possibilities of miracles while recognizing the realities of today's world, of which she is painfully aware. Agnes is a beautiful but tormented soul whose abusive upbringing has affected her ability to think rationally.
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When four men set off to find an isolated cabin in the forest on a "wildman” weekend, a la Robert Bly, everything that can go wrong does! Andy, a men’s movement advocate, and Robin, a crystal-gazing New Ager, coax Stewart, an unsuspecting grocer, and Randall, a skeptical, city lawyer, into reluctantly participating in male-bonding ceremonies and communal hugs. The result? Hockey cheers and Neil Young singalongs!
This play is a satire on men’s self-help encounters of the type made famous by drum-beating poet Robert Bly and the new-age, touchy-feely movement that supported it.

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In an article on MSNBC new blogging technology is discussed. With new technology could it make our class blogs easier? One of the new technologies is a program that is called Flickr. It is a program that interacts with blogging websites and allows the user to add effects to their blogs. It has the capability for you to take a picture with your camera phone or your video camera and send the file to Flickr and they will attach it to a blog of your choice. There is also some technology called AudBlog that will allow you to call a phone number and leave a four minute message which in minutes is uploaded to a webpage blog and then you can hear your audio blog online. Could this technology make our blogging assignments easier if we were allowed to use this kind of technology? If not easier then more exciting?


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Good Governance Floats on a Sea of Integrity
By: Gary Schons
“In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics,” the late Earl Warren, who served as a U.S. Supreme Court chief justice and as California attorney general and governor, stated in a 1962 speech. In a closely related sense, good governance floats on a sea of integrity. Only when government institutions abide by the norms of public integrity established by our laws and traditions can good governance take root and flourish.
When we speak of public integrity, foremost are qualities of individual virtue, undivided loyalty, transparency and accountability. Only when these principles are maintained by the individuals who serve will government institutions function with economy, efficiency and effectiveness. And when those virtues fail or cease to exist, waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement and even corruption eventually corrode the processes of governing.
After an election that ushered in a host of new public officials and laws at the national, state and local levels, it is an appropriate time to reflect on the preeminence of integrity in our public institutions.
A recent survey conducted at Chapman University in Orange, revealed that people’s greatest fear is government corruption. At first blush, this seems surprising given the risks and harms posed by international terrorism, climate change and environmental degradation or economic disruption. But, on second thought, it is an understandable reaction. Individuals create their government through the ballot box, fund it through their taxes and are served and controlled by it in their daily lives. Government is constant and omnipresent in the lives of all citizens. Trust in its proper workings is fundamental to the social compact in which citizens cede certain of their freedoms, liberty and property to the state.
California is blessed with a public integrity infrastructure that is second to none in the country. In surveys of the states for public integrity practices, California consistently ranks at the top. The Political Reform Act and Government Code section 1090, which prohibit conflicts of interest, seek to ensure that government agencies have the undivided loyalty of its officials, in addition to promoting transparency in the political process. The Brown Act “Open Meetings” Law and the Public Records Act promote transparency and accountability by affording the public (and press) open access to government meetings and public records.
However, these laws alone are not self-executing and are no guarantee the goals they serve will be achieved. They must be put into regular practice and enforced. A robust system of checks and balances among the various organs of government provides the architecture for enforcement. The FPPC, the local prosecutor, the county grand jury exercising its civil “watch dog” function, and the State Auditor each serve important roles in monitoring, ensuring compliance with and sanctioning those violate these statutes.
However, the single most important guarantor of public integrity is an engaged citizenry informed by a principled press.
Case after case of local government malfeasance have come in communities where the citizens are not engaged and watchful of the processes of local governance. In such circumstances, open meeting laws are violated and “backroom” deals and decisions are made. Officials act despite clear conflict of interests. And, inevitably, mismanagement, abuse, fraud and corruption permeates the governing processes. This leads to massive losses to the public fisc, diminished public services and, eventually, a loss of public trust and faith in the governing entity. Thus, citizen participation is critical not just on Election Day, but on an on-going basis as the ultimate watch dog of official probity, transparency and accountability.
In a future installment of the Ethics Advisor, we will examine some case studies of failed governance directly attributable to lack of oversight and enforcement of public integrity norms and laws.
Gary Schons heads the Government Policy & Public Integrity practice. He served as trial counsel for the Commission on Judicial Performance.
Gary is an active member of the California District Attorneys Association, lecturing and authoring articles for the association.
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The legacy of attempts to ease salmon passage through Columbia-Snake
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text: It's finally time for round two of our forum GOTY showdown 2013 edition (remember that year?). For this round I've asked our intrepid users to write a haiku about their chosen game. Please enjoy the haiku and then vote below for which game you want to see advance to the semifinals! Please bold your votes. All haiku are [sic]. You all have terrible grammar. Today's round two matchup is: Fire Emblem: Awakening vs. The Last of Us ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ Thanks!


The reviews on this product are by and large impressive. However, before deciding on a vacuum cleaner, or just any gadget, it is extremely important to look into the attributes of the product. Make sure that the product you are going to buy actually comes with all the attributes to cater your need, so that it never falls short of your expectations. All the same, for me, this unit is a dream to own. In fact, it is perhaps the best Christmas present that I have ever got from my parents. This is why, I fail to resist the temptation of sharing my experiences with this home-aid of mine.
Whenever I look at the mint, I thank the wise designers for giving it a square shape. I did own a different vacuum cleaner previously, and I particularly remember how ineffective it was to clean the corners of my rooms. Thankfully, it has gone to sleep, and I have the Mint now. It is astonishingly good at cleaning the dirt that sticks around the nooks of my rooms. Additionally, being flat in contour, it can easily slip under any of your low level furniture and grab every speck of dust and debris. No wonder, it is only after I have started using this machine, I could rid myself from the frequent backaches which I suffered after straining my back to move the furniture only to get at those dust particles.
The NorthStar navigation system or the NorthStar Cube actually works akin to an in-house GPS system that assists my gadget to cognize where it has been and where it should go. To put it simply, the NorthStar Navigation Cube acts as a visual signal that helps Mint to find out its location. Once it starts to do the cleaning for me, it attempts to connect with the Navigation Cube. The cube indicates one flashing blue light on the Navigation System Indicator. The moment the gadget locks itself onto the cube, its lights change to solid blue. Then it starts to clean. Doing so, it maps out the area. It also marks the wall, obstacles and what is more, it can even avoid any possibility of drop off. This navigation system indicator is also instrumental to signal Mint’s range. Whenever it goes out of the room or gets too far from the navigation cube, the number of lights goes down.
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