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1956-1958 Plymouth Fury

1956 Plymouth Fury
Introduced at the Chicago Automobile Show on January 10, 1956, the Plymouth Fury was as exciting as anything Plymouth had put out in some time. Though it shared the same body used for the ordinary Savoy and Belvedere two-door hardtops, it sported several distinctive styling features that set it apart decisively.

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The 1956 Plymouth Fury was essentially the same body as the Belvedere.

On the outside was one-tone eggshell white paint, set off by a full-length bodyside sweepspear with a gold-anodized aluminum insert. Anodized gold also decorated the grille center and the special "spoke" wheel covers. (The latter interchanged with those of the DeSoto Adventurer, except that the hubs were plain on the Plymouth Fury, monogrammed "DeS" on the Adventurer.)

Inside was eggshell vinyl upholstery with black jacquard inserts. On the sharply finned 1956 hardtop body, all this looked rather dashing indeed. But what really made the Plymouth Fury memorable was what happened when you floored its accelerator.

In addressing Fury performance, Plymouth engineers did not soup up an existing V-8 like Ford and Chevy. They deemed their 277-cubic-inch polyspherical-head engine too small and decided against taking any chances with superchargers or fuel injection.

Unexpectedly, they also shunned using one of the corporate hemis, though it's not known whether this was out of choice or because other divisions wouldn't cooperate. What they did do was choose an engine from across the river: the 303-cid poly-head V-8 from the Canadian Chrysler Windsor and Dodge Royal. The 303 was a prime pick, because it was right at the top of the displacement limit for NASCAR Class 5 (259-305 cid).

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The 1956 Plymouth Fury's instrument panel.

To this basic block the engineers applied a high-lift cam, solid lifters, domed pistons, a four-barrel carb, free-flow dual exhausts, and 9.25:1 compression. The result was 240 horsepower, about .8 horses per cubic inch. (It's a comment on the pace of the 1950s "horsepower race" that Chevrolet achieved a full 1.0 horsepower per cubic inch just one year later, though the 1956 Chrysler 300B also managed that magic mark, with optional high-compression heads.)

To handle the extra poke, the Fury was equipped with heavy-duty springs and shocks, jumbo Dodge brakes of 11-inch diameter, wide 7.10 x 15 tires, and a front anti-sway bar. Putting it on the road was a heavy-duty three-speed manual transmission with beefed-up clutch. Optional was Chrysler's two-speed PowerFlite automatic, now with pushbutton control.

While other 1956 Plymouths looked pretty high-sided, the Fury hunkered down on its well-damped suspension an inch closer to the road. It was visibly different and looked like it meant business.

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Car Sales Representative in Columbus, GA at AutoCash

Date Posted: 1/31/2018

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Car Sales Representative

Columbus, Georgia

AutoCash is a growing group of used auto dealerships specializing in diverse inventory and a simple, stress-free car-buying experience. Our focus on excellence is marked by knowledgeable and friendly customer service and competitive pricing, differentiating AutoCash as a dealership of choice. With positions ranging from auto technicians to customer sales and management, we are excited to offer opportunities for career advancement and development. If you are looking for a customer-focused, fast-paced environment where you have the chance to grow your career in vehicle remarketing, AutoCash is the place for you!

AutoCash is seeking an enthusiastic Sales Representative to join our vehicle remarketing division. This position is responsible for selling vehicles on the lot to our customers and providing an excellent overall car-buying experience while meeting and exceeding monthly performance goals. The successful candidate will be a career-minded individual excited about opportunities for advancement based on performance. Performance bonus is available.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Greet customers on the lot and in the dealership and quickly begin building rapport
  • Assist customers in finding a vehicle that meets their specific needs by using a consultative approach
  • Explain vehicle characteristics and demonstrate vehicle features on the lot to enhance customer experience
  • Assist customers in completing sales applications and all other necessary paperwork to close sales
  • Inspect the lot's vehicles daily and report any problems to the Remarketing Manager
  • Other duties as assigned

Specific Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

  • Minimum of 3 years of sales experience
  • Superior customer service skills and strong sales track record
  • Sales-oriented mindset and relationship-building skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Persuasion and negotiation skills, with the ability to handle objections in a professional and friendly manner
  • Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
  • Standing, walking, sitting, repetitive movements and use of mechanical controls, such as keyboard, are frequently required.

Due to the volume of resumes we receive, please be advised that only those candidates that we are interested in pursuing for an interview will be contacted.

AutoCash, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002) The 10th Anniversary Edition 2012 [2CD+DVD5]

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Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002) The 10th Anniversary Edition 2012 [2CD+DVD5]
EAC/Digital | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 883 Mb (incl 5%) | Mp3 (CBR320/Stereo) ~ 309 Mb (incl 5%) | Scans PNG/JPG ~ 1.3 Gb/213 Mb
DVD5 | NTSC | 720x480, 4:3, 29.970 fps | AC3, 320 kbps / PCM, 1536 kbps | Time: 00:51:00 | ~ 2.8 Gb
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Post-Punk Revival | Label: Matador | # OLE 993-2 | Time: 02:08:53

Turn On The Bright Lights is now fully remastered in a beautiful deluxe hardbound book with unreleased photos and a second disc of bonus tracks, many unreleased, plus the demos and B-sides and a DVD. Packaging includes super-deluxe hardbound book, with 28 pages of photos, ephemera & liner notes. Also included are 17 bonus tracks, many never before on vinyl, including one previously unreleased song, four previously unreleased demos, eight B-sides and pre-album EP tracks, four peel session tracks (two unreleased) and a DVD with all three music videos and bonus live footage from May 2000 at The Mercury Lounge and September 2002 at the Troubadour.
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002) The 10th Anniversary Edition 2012 [2CD+DVD5]

On the surface, the story of Interpol's 2002 full-length debut Turn on the Bright Lights is almost annoyingly of its place and time: four guys meet in New York, start a band, make tightly-wound indie rock jams that sound great at your favorite mid-gentrification Williamsburg bar, sign to a renowned independent label, and the rest is history. But the early-aughts New York of Turn on the Bright Lights is not the young, vibrant, and impossibly cool place of cultural myth. It is a darker and more complicated place, fraught with disappointment and disconnection. It is a crushingly real place, rendered in such vivid emotional detail that it rings true even to those who have never set foot in the city. This stellar 10th Anniversary reissue documents the process by which a handful of pretty-good songs became a truly great album, making it painfully and unequivocally clear that Turn on the Bright Lights is the sum of its players, not its influences.

In retrospect, 2002 may have been the very year that we stopped talking about how music sounds, and started talking about what other music it sounds like. "Interpol sounds like Joy Division" was one of the first critical observations to turn into a full-fledged meme. In the intervening years, other bands have sounded a whole lot more like Joy Division, and the comparison now feels like just that: a comparison. While Joy Division could channel enormous amounts of energy through Ian Curtis's intense delivery, Interpol pulled off a real magic trick by constructing a framework complex and dynamic enough to bring singer Paul Banks' inscrutable deadpan to life. Banks's words can be downright laughable on paper, and are often sung as if WRITTEN OUT IN ALL CAPS WITH NO PUNCTUATION. But from this insistent, exaggerated blankness, the band coaxed a genuinely unnerving sense of alienation and melancholy. These songs are packed with a staggering amount of rhythmic and melodic tension, sometimes amplifying minuscule expressive nuances in Banks's voice, and sometimes drawing attention to their disconcerting absence.

Each individual member of the band has his own role in piecing this puzzle together. Drummer Sam Fogarino is the perfect anchor for Carlos Dengler's busy, melodic bass lines, keeping the rhythm section forceful and grounded. Guitarist Daniel Kessler is the album's unsung hero, expanding the band's dynamic range by oscillating between wide, monolithic chords and narrow, winding leads. The album's second single "NYC" achieves two unlikely successes pioneered by Matador labelmates Chavez: structuring a ballad around loud, steady drums and withholding all bass guitar until the chorus. "The New" slips a disco bass line under a morass of swirling, detuned guitars. There are a lot of things about Turn on the Bright Lights that should not work, and would not work were they not so carefully thought through and artfully implemented.

Three batches of demo recordings are far and away the most interesting bonus materials on this extensive reissue, as they show just how close the album came to not working. The first three-song demo, recorded in 1998 and featuring album cuts "PDA" and "Roland", comes off as an unremarkable practice tape by a band with lots of good ideas but insufficient energy and chemistry to pull them all together. The second three-song demo, recorded at Brooklyn's Rare Book Room in 1999, is more worked over with decidedly mixed results; there are some jarringly tacky too-loud keyboards here, and a sing-spoken interlude that can't help but bring to mind Crazy Town's "Butterfly". Somewhat ironically, it is only the third and final four-song demo, recorded at the band's practice space, where Interpol stops sounding like four guys in a practice space tentatively running through busy rock songs. Much of this can be credited to Fogarino, who joined the band between their second and third tapes and brought with him a rhythmic confidence and swagger that provided the crucial missing piece of Interpol's singular sound.

This progression of demo recordings documents not only the evolution of the band's playing, but also their increasing attention to texture and ambiance. As the group grew more confident, the gritty sonics of their demos became less incidental to the songs they were making, and more a part of the songs themselves. Producer Peter Katis did an amazing job of preserving and amplifying this rawness, and the band themselves crucially revisited many elements of their demos to better suit their evolving capabilities. The slight changes that Fogarino made to the kick pattern at the beginning of "PDA" completely make the song's signature introduction, taking it from "oh, there's a drumbeat" to "OH, there's THAT drumbeat." Banks gave his lyrics a thorough tune-up before the recording the album, excising his most rhythmically formless lines and shoring up the critical interplay between his voice and the rest of the band.

The extensive liner notes here are as much about the city in which Interpol operated as the band itself. It's certainly interesting, especially for those who are up on their New York City indie rock landmarks. And while the photographs included here do a good job of documenting the physical locations where this album was born, the album itself conveys the setting in a deeper way. Suggesting that this album is simply a product of its time and place is no less naive than suggesting that anyone who has ever been in love could easily write, arrange and record an amazing love song. There were a lot of good bands in New York in 2002, but only one band made this record.

Review by Matt LeMay,

CD1 - The Album:

01. Untitled (3:57)
02. Obstacle 1 (4:12)
03. NYC (4:19)
04. PDA (5:00)
05. Say Hello to the Angels (4:28)
06. Hands Away (3:06)
07. Obstacle 2 (3:47)
08. Stella was a diver and she was always down (6:28)
09. Roland (3:36)
10. The New (6:07)
11. Leif Erikson (4:00)

CD2 - B-Sides, Demos, Live 1998-2001:

01. Interlude (B-Side) (1:01)
02. Specialist (B-Side) (6:40)
03. PDA (First Demo) (4:44)
04. Roland (First Demo) (3:44)
05. Get The Girls_Song 5 (First Demo) (3:47)
06. Precipitate (Second Demo) (5:33)
07. Song Seven (Second Demo) (4:43)
08. A Time To Be So Small (Second Demo) (5:47)
09. Untitled (Third Demo) (4:13)
10. Stella (Third Demo) (6:40)
11. NYC (Third Demo) (4:27)
12. Leif Erikson (Third Demo) (4:27)
13. Gavilan_Cubed (Third Demo) (6:49)
14. Obstacle 2 (Peel Session) (3:54)
15. Hands Away (Peel Session) (3:10)
16. The New (Peel Session) (5:59)
17. NYC (Peel Session) (4:17)

DVD Content:

Live NYC NY 5.20.00:
01. Stella was a diver and she was always down
02. Precipitate
03. Get The Girls/Song 5

Live LA CA 9.19.02:
01. Untitled
02. Obstacle 1
03. Precipitate
04. Roland
05. Stella was a diver and she was always down

Music Videos:
01. NYC
02. PDA
03. Obstacle 1

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Best Turmeric Milk Recipe that gives 100% Result

You may have heard lots of benefits about turmeric milk and also tried to get in need. Actually getting all the benefits of any herb depends on how you consume it. Here, I have placed an ultimate turmeric milk recipe to get best result out of it.

Taking herb is not always tasty. This recipe will make turmeric milk more tasty and enhance properties of added ingredients to give you maximum benefits.

Best Turmeric Milk Recipe

Benefits of this Ultimate Turmeric Milk Recipe

  1. Purify blood
  2. Boosts circulation
  3. Cleanse the lymphatic system
  4. Strains away impurities from the liver
  5. Heals indigestion, diarrhoea, stomach ulcers and colitis.
  6. Defeats germs and calms down colds, coughs, sore throats, fevers, toothaches, rheumatoid arthritis, headaches, menstrual cramps, muscular pain and a whole big bucket list of ailments.
  7. Heats up the body
  8. Provide quick relief from lung congestion and sinuses

  1. 2 cups milk
  2. 2 teaspoons turmeric powder from your kitchen or make fresh by peeling and chopp 1-inch knob of fresh turmeric
  3. Peel and chopped 1/2 inch knob of fresh ginger
  4. 2 teaspoons cow ghee (One can use homemade ghee made from butter)
  5. 1 tablespoon honey

  • Mix together the turmeric, ginger and ghee; blend until you have a fine paste
  • Pour the milk with this paste into a saucepan
  • Heat the milk till little bubbles will begin to appear on the sides of the saucepan
  • Turn off the heat and cover the saucepan
  • Allow turmeric and ginger to steep about 3 minutes
  • Now remove turmeric and ginger paste from milk by use of strainer
  • Stir honey in strain turmeric milk and continue stirring until it dissolves
  • Drink warm
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Skin to Skin

Skin to Skin

The technique of skin-to-skin is practiced all over the world by many health care practitioners. So what is this skin-to-skin all about? I have been asked that many times over, in the last few months, so I feel it is the perfect way to start our conversation.
The skin to skin technique is the manner in which your baby experiences its first moments after being born. In many countries that practice this method of being born, the moment that a baby is born, the baby is placed skin-to-skin with its mother, and allowed to stay there, exploring, for however long they want to; typically for the first hour or two (in c-section deliveries) or until the first breastfeeding has occurred. This is not a rushed, latch-on to the breast event, but rather calm and most importantly baby led experience. This is actually the best possible start to breastfeeding. Mothers that have had the opportunity to experience this technique have considerably more milk on day three or four, when the “milk comes in”. In addition to getting breastfeeding off to a great start, there are so many other important benefits to doing this. Mother and baby bonding is accelerated and strengthened, in pre-term babies cases, it is sometimes referred to as “Kangaroo Care” and has had a tremendous impact on the positive outcomes of preterm infants. The increase of warmth is greater skin to skin on the mother, it has been known to stabilize the babies heartbeat, and results in decreased crying and stress on the infant. Dads can even do skin-to-skin! If you think about it, this method is quite natural and normal. The baby has spent almost 10 months in their mother’s tummies, developing, why wouldn’t they want to stay next to their mommies? The reality is, that babies need to be with their mother, just as they need to feed. In decades past, this would have been the manner in which all children are born, technology improvements have maybe changed this natural way of allowing a mother and baby to be together during the first moments after birth. That being said, don’t get me wrong, thank goodness for technology advances, it has been responsible for so many positive outcomes.
Here’s the great news, we have many talented health care professionals that currently do this here. They realize the benefits of the skin-to-skin technique and are happy to allow this method after delivery (provided that the baby is healthy). I empower you to experience this method of skin-to-skin, even in normal C-section cases, this can be done. So talk to your health care professionals and ask about Skin-to-skin.

Love & Hugs!

By: Bianca Carter, CLC

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Chicken Stir Fry

I love stir-fry.  I just don’t like eating it at restaurants or getting the frozen kind, because I hate all of the preservatives used in it.  I was really excited when I found this recipe and it was really yummy.

There is something great about using fresh ingredients for a meal.  I don’t mind chopping up a bunch of ingredients.  It’s actually quite soothing.

It makes the rice taste so yummy when you let the juices mix with it for a bit.

Chicken Stir Fry

– 1 c sliced celery

– 1 c sliced carrots

– 1 c chopped onion

– 4 T oil, divided

– 3/4 c each julienned green, red, and yellow pepper

– 3/4 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into bite size pieces

– 1/2 lb fresh mushrooms, sliced

– 1 8-oz can sliced water chestnuts, drained

– 1 1/2 c chicken broth

– 2 T soy sauce

– 2 T vinegar

– 2 garlic cloves, minced

– 1/4 t ground ginger

– 1/8 t cayenne pepper

– 2 T cornstarch

– 1/4 c additional chicken broth

– 3 c hot cooked rice

In a large skillet, saute celery, carrots, and onion in 3 T of oil for 2 minutes.

Add peppers; cook for 2-4 minutes or until crisp tender.  Remove with a slotted spoon to paper towels.  Add chicken, mushrooms and remaining oil; stir fry 4 minutes.

Stir in water chestnuts; cook 2-3 minutes longer or until heated through.  Remove with a slotted spoon to paper towels.

Drain skillet; add the broth, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, ginger, and cayenne.

Combine cornstarch and 1/4 cup broth until smooth; stir into broth mixture.  Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened.

Reduce heat; return vegetables and chicken to pan.  Cook for 5 minutes or until heated through.

Serve over rice.

6 servings.

Baked Mashed Potatoes

In our house, we have a predicament.  I love mashed potatoes.  Zack doesn’t.  For this reason, I try to make them in as many different ways as possible in the hopes that I will find some that he loves.  So far, no luck.

However, I loved these.  It takes forever to make them, but totally worth it in my opinion.  They were so creamy and amazing!

Give them a try if you are tired of the same ole mashed potatoes!

Baked Mashed Potatoes

– 6 large potatoes, peeled, thickly sliced (about 2 3/4 lb)

– 1 medium onion, chopped

– 1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, softened

– 1/2 c butter, softened

– 1/2 c sour cream

– 1 large egg, beaten

– 1 3/4 t salt

– 1/2 t black pepper

– 1 t paprika

Combine potatoes, onion and enough water to cover in a large saucepan.  Bring to a boil over high heat.  Reduce the heat to medium.  Simmer until potatoes are tender; about 20 minutes; drain well.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 3-qt baking dish.

Combine potato mixture, cream cheese, butter, sour cream, egg, salt and black pepper in a large bowl.  Beat with an electric mixer set at high speed until mixture is smooth.  Spoon potato mixture into prepared baking dish.  Sprinkle with paprika.

Bake until heated through, about 30-35 minutes.  Serve immediately.

Potatoes may be prepared up to 2-3 days ahead and refrigerated, covered, until ready to bake.

Chicken Quesadilla Wraps

Today I spent the afternoon with my dad.  We are so much alike.  We have the same personality and same sense of humor.  I love spending time with him!

Also, I have been getting back into my love of crafting.  I started making a wreath today that I am in love with.  I will post pictures when it’s finished.

I made these chicken quesadilla wraps one night when my friend came over for dinner.  I really liked them and so did Zack.  She isn’t a big fan of spicy, so these weren’t really her cup of tea.

Try them, though, if you like things that have a little kick!

Chicken Quesadilla Wraps

Makes 2 quesadilla wraps

– 1 1/2 c shredded/chopped cooked chicken

– 1/2 c chopped cooked onion (sauteed until tender)

– 2 T chopped jalapeno peppers

– 6 T chopped lowfat cheddar or monterey jack cheese

– 2 9″ flour tortillas or wraps

– 1 T olive oil

Insert plates on griddler onto grill side (or preheat regular grill to high).  Preheat to high with unit closed.  In a small bowl, combine the chicken, onion, and jalapeno peppers.  Sprinkle half the cheese in the center of each tortilla.  Top with the chicken mixture, keeping the chicken mixture in a log and 1 1/2″ wide and 4-5″ long in the center of each tortilla.  Fold one side over the filling lengthwise to cover, fold top and bottom over short sides to cover, then fold last side over wraps to close.  Turn over so that the flap is on the bottom.  Lightly brush the tops and bottoms of the wraps with the olive oil.  Place quesadilla wraps on preheated grill or griddler.  Close, using medium-light pressure.  Grill for 3 1/2 – 4 minutes, until tortilla is warm with grill markings, filling is warm and cheese is melted.  Serve with salsa if desired.

Cajun Turkey Burger Skillet

Growing up, I loved Hamburger Helper.  I know, I know, it isn’t healthy and it is full of nasty processed stuff, but it is pretty darn good.

However, I don’t know if I have outgrown Hamburger Helper or it just isn’t that good when you try to dress it up, because this dish didn’t really do it for me.

Zack and I both agree that it was okay, but not good enough to have again.

Cajun Turkey Burger Skillet

– 1 lb lean ground turkey

– 1 small red bell pepper, chopped (1/2 cup)

– 2 t cajun seasoning

– 2 c hot water

– 1 c milk

– 1 box Hamburger Helper cheeseburger macaroni

– 1 c shredded cheese

In a 10-in nonstick skillet, cook turkey, bell pepper and Cajun seasoning over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until turkey is no longer pink; drain.

Stir in hot water, milk and contents of uncooked pasta and sauce mix pouches (from Hamburger Helper box).  Heat to boiling, stirring occasionally.  Reduce heat; cover and simmer 13-15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until pasta is tender.  Sprinkle with cheese and allow to melt before serving.

Sweet Soy Glazed Chicken & Onions

As everyone can definitely tell, I’m always looking for new ways to try out chicken.  Chicken is so versatile and delicious almost any way it is prepared.

This was great.  The recipe definitely only serves two, but it could easily be doubled or even tripled if need be.

Zack hates ginger, so he is always apprehensive when a recipe calls for it, but you could not taste it in this dish.  It meshed so well with the rest of the flavors.

Sweet Soy Glazed Chicken & Onions

Serves 2.

– 2 chicken breasts, cut into bite sized pieces

– 1/2 an onion, sliced thinly

– 1 T cornstarch

– 1 T water

– 1/3 c soy sauce

– 1/3 c sugar

– 1/4 c cider vinegar

– 1/2 t garlic powder

– 1/2 t ground ginger

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.  Grease a 9×13 baking pan and add the cut up chicken and sliced onions.  Set aside.

In a medium saucepan, whisk together the cornstarch and water until completely smooth.  Add in the rest of the ingredients and whisk until combined, bring to a simmer, and allow to cook until thickened, about 8 minutes.  Make sure you keep stirring everything so it doesn’t burn while it cooks.

Pour the sauce over the chicken and stir to make sure everything is well coated.  Bake for 25-30 minutes, until everything is cooked through.

Pizza Bites

Growing up, I loved those frozen pizza bites.  You probably know the ones I’m talking about.  They’re rectangular and frozen and you just pop them in the microwave.  They are probably full of preservatives and horrible for you, but oh so good.

This recipe reminded me a lot of them when I saw it, so I decided to make some for Zack.

He said they were really good.  They were a great bite-size treat!

You could really put any toppings in there.  I just used pepperoni, because it’s Zack’s favorite.

Pizza Bites

– 1 pizza dough (homemade, canned, refrigerated… up to you)

– ~ 3/4 c mozzarella cheese

– 2-3 oz thin sliced pepperoni

– 1 tsp Italian seasoning

– 1/4 c olive oil

– 1 1/2 T grated Parmesan cheese

– pizza or marinara sauce

Prepare pizza dough and roughly chop pepperoni.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease a pie pan.

If using refrigerated pizza dough, roll dough out into a large rectangle and cut into 24 pieces.  If using homemade dough, just pinch off walnut sized pieces as you go.

In each dough piece, place a couple of pieces of chopped pepperoni and some cheese.  Seal dough around meat and cheese and place seam side down in pie pan.

Repeat for each bite.

Once assembled, combine oil and spices and brush over the dough.  Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

Now you can cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate or freeze or bake right away.

When ready to bake: bake at 400 degrees for 16-20 minutes.  Serve with warm pizza or marinara sauce.

Baked Lobster Tails

Zack and I love seafood – especially lobster, crab, and shrimp.  The only problem is the price.  Lobster is incredibly expensive (to us anyway) so we rarely ever have it.

We wanted to have a special dinner for New Years though and went to our health food grocery store and lobster was on sale!  We knew we had to get it.

I had never made it before and was worried that I would mess it up and ruin our special dinner (and waste a ton of money).

Luckily, this recipe was super easy and they turned out perfect!  If you like lobster, I highly recommend trying this recipe.  It’s relatively healthy and absolutely delicious!

Our yummy New Years Dinner: lobster tails, green beans and baked hush puppies.  Yum!

Baked Lobster Tails

– 4 lobster tails (8-10 oz each)

– 1 c water

– 1 T minced fresh parsley

– 1/8 t salt

– dash pepper

– 1 T butter, melted

– 2 T lemon juice

– lemon wedges and additional melted butter, optional

Split lobster tails in half lengthwise.  With cut side up and using scissors, cut along the edge of shell to loosen the cartilage covering the tail meat from the shell; remove and discard cartilage.

Pour water into a 13×9 baking dish; place the lobster tails in dish.  Combine the parsley, salt and pepper; sprinkle over lobster.  Drizzle with butter and lemon juice

Bake, uncovered, at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until meat is firm and opaque.  Serve with lemon wedges and melted butter, if desired.

Old Fashioned Mac & Cheese

There is nothing more delicious than mac & cheese.  It is the perfect side dish for any occasion – from a formal Thanksgiving dinner to a outdoor barbecue with friends.

Zack LOVES macaroni and cheese.  He said “yeah, you can go ahead and make this everyday if you want.”  He’s so funny!

I’m including two different variations that are both really good but a little different.

The second version is much more aesthetically appealing, but they are both delicious! Art Colleges could teach you more about aesthetic appeal.

Old Fashioned Mac & Cheese

– 2 T butter

– 2 T AP flour

– 2 1/2 c milk

– salt & pepper to taste

– 3 c shredded cheddar cheese, divided

– 2 c elbow macaroni, cooked

Melt butter in saucepan over low heat. Mix in flour.  Gradually add milk, stirring constantly.  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Cook over medium heat just until mix starts to boil and thicken.  Add 2 1/2 cups cheese; stir until melted and smooth.  Mix in macaroni, transfer to a greased 2 quart casserole dish.  Top w/ remaining cheese.  Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, until bubbly.

Serves 4-6.

Another Variation of Mac & Cheese (Better)

– 2 1/2 c elbow macaroni

– 1/4 c butter

– 1/4 c AP flour

– 1/2 t salt

– 1/4 t pepper

– 1/4 t ground mustard

– 1/4 t Worcestershire sauce

– 2 c milk or half & half

– 2 c shredded sharp cheddar cheese

Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Cook and drain macaroni as directed on package.

Meanwhile, in 3-qt saucepan, melt butter over low heat.  Stir in flour, salt, pepper, mustard and Worcestershire sauce. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and bubbly, remove from heat.

Stir in milk.  Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.  Boil and stir 1 minute; remove from heat.  Stir in cheese until melted.

Gently stir macaroni into cheese sauce.  Pour into ungreased 2-qt casserole dish.  Bake uncovered 20-25 minutes or until bubbly.

Buffalo Potato Wedges For Two

This picture is not flattering.  I have no idea why I didn’t take a better one.  Don’t let the bad picture fool you, these are great.

Zack and I love spicy foods.  There’s just something amazing about the buffalo flavor.

Give these a try, they are totally worth it.  Yum!

Buffalo Potato Wedges for Two

– 1 large russet potato, sliced into wedges

– 1 T olive oil

– salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste

– 1/4 c butter

– 1/2 c hot pepper sauce

Arrange potato wedges on a baking sheet sprayed with nonstick spray.  Drizzle with oil; sprinkle with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Bake at 375 degrees for about 30 minutes until tender, tossing occasionally.  Remove pan from oven.  Combine butter and hot sauce in microwavable bowl.  Microwave on high setting until melted, one minute or so; mix well.  Drizzle mixture over potato wedges; return to oven for an additional 15 minutes.  If desired, serve with ranch or blue cheese dipping sauce.

Scorched Teriyaki Green Beans

I love green beans.  They are pretty versatile and very easy to cook.  For that reason, I’m always looking for new ways to make them.

Even though Zack is not a big fan of Teriyaki, I decided to give these a whirl anyway.

They were okay, but the teriyaki sauce was extremely overpowering and made the beans so salty that it was almost intolerable.  Needless to say, making them was a one time thing.

If you decide to make them, I strongly recommend using a low-sodium Teriyaki sauce.  I could feel my blood pressure raising with each bite I took! haha!

I think it is important to not only share the good recipes, but also the ones that we did not necessarily like as much, because everyone’s tastebuds are different and what might not be that good to us might be delicious to someone else!

Scorched Teriyaki Green Beans

– 1 lb green beans, ends and strings removed

– 3 T teriyaki sauce

In a skillet, saute beans in water, adding water along the way, until beans are the desired texture.  Allow water to evaporate, then continue to cook until black spots appear on most of the beans.  Toss regularly during the cooking process until beans begin to soften.

Reduce heat, add teriyaki sauce and an equal amount of water and continue to toss and cook for another 30-60 seconds, taking care not to let the sauce burn.  Serve hot.


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Adrian Cox Trio

Wed 09th Aug. 9:30:pm

Led by Adrian Cox on Clarinet and Saxophone, the Adrian Cox Trio play a mix of jazz and swing celebrating the great small band era. Adrian is inspired by greats such as Jonny Hodges, Ed Hall, Barney Bigard, Earl Bostic who all broke away at one time or another to explore the sounds of smaller line ups. One of these was the side by side and back to back sessions that came from Jonny Hodges and longtime band leader Duke Ellington.

Adrian draws a mix of influences into his playing all of which resound as the quartet fire through a programme of jazz and swing standards that are sometimes forgotten.


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Porcupine Tree

The Incident

[Porcupine Tree; 2009]

By ; September 17, 2009

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Steven Wilson is one of those artists that consistently bring out songs with lyrics that lie in the gray area between preachy and downright annoying. Preaching can be fine, it can really make a difference, if not just bring awareness, and when it works, the more controversial, the better. It can make an artist.

Fear of a Blank Planet, Porcupine Tree’s 2007 album, was a great example of the downright annoying.

Filled with fear of worldwide submission towards the Internet, video games and porn, Fear of a Blank Planet hid behind a concept album facade, but was essentially Wilson’s thoughts on the subject – he doesn’t like it, and he’s not afraid to sing about it. Sounding just about completely out of touch to anyone under 30, Wilson described the main character of the story as “…this kind of terminally bored kid, anywhere between 10 and 15 years old, who spends all his daylight hours in his bedroom with the curtains closed, playing on his PlayStation, listening to his iPod, texting his friends on his cellphone, looking at hardcore pornography on the Internet, downloading music, films, news, violence…” His heart’s in the right place, but his joyless attempts at crushing modern teenage life kind of go against the fact that his band has a huge Internet and mp3 age following.

So going from the reaction I saw on boards and reviews, this didn’t go down well among casual or hardcore fans, and musically, the album was a bit lacking anyway, so it was a relief when, in November 2008, Wilson brought out his debut album under his own name, the brilliant Insurgentes, the perfect cure to the previous disappointment.

But the preaching remained. Now focusing down on the iPod, file sharing and the slow decline of the album as an art form over the past few years, Wilson’s site now contains videos of him destroying iPods in several lame ways, probably pleasing himself over anything else, like the guy grinning at his own failed joke. The joke’s on him, as that album now sits on my iPod, and no amount of pointless destruction is going to change the way millions think or act.

And so, in the new year, we have The Incident, the new Porcupine Tree album, and Wilson’s worries about “download culture” come full circle – part one of the album, a 55 minute, 14 chapter song cycle that requires full attention of the listener, intentionally un-digestible in single bites, in the spirit of Abbey Road‘s side 2 medley, in effect a big F-U to the mostly single based pop albums of the current age. But there’s a slight problem with what Wilson and the rest of his band have done – it isn’t very good.

The first part of this album is an intentional suite of music, designed to flow and build up (and down) towards a climax, with segues, centre-pieces and short little cuts away interspersed throughout. This all happens, but it’s never to its full potential;songs that should flow into each other seamlessly cut and change awkwardly, and the melodies and hooks that deserve to be brought forward and utilized lay dormant, teasing the listener, but hurting themselves. Musically, it is very good: the playing is brilliant and while the mixing is a little bright, the albums engineers seem to have held off on the limiting, for the most part. “Circle of Manias” is perfect metal; “Time Flies,” while palm-to-face, cripplingly lame lyrically (“I was born in ’67/ The year of Sgt. Pepper’s“), is magical everywhere else, even if it is three minutes too long. When the medley (or suite, whatever you want to call it) is over, there really isn’t anything to go on, no final thought or motif. It lacks the overall scope of Dark Side of the Moon or the playful melancholy of Abbey Road. Yes, I’m comparing it to the time-tested classics, but if you’re going to do it, you’re going to have to go up against those who have done it well. The album would be miles better had they stuck to the routine and not, sad to say it, experimented.

Coming out of the exhausting medley are four tracks of utterly singular and confusing music, the exact opposite of what came before. Written and recorded during the sessions and for some reason added on as a bonus EP, the songs are essentially the definition of B-side material. Once again, musically, they’re fine. A little too-much-of-what-they’ve-done-before material, but overall a pleasant experience. A pleasant experience that should have been held onto for a seperate, future release.

So, in the end, The Incident is a disappointing failure in execution, but same old Porcupine Tree musically. Anyone new to the band, or Wilson, should explore elsewhere. Hopefully the band can explore elsewhere as well.

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The Conington Railway Crossing

On 16 October 1948 Colonel Arthur H Mellows and his friend Mr A. F. Percival were returning home in the colonel’s large black Chrysler car after a day’s shooting near Conington. When they reached the Conington level-crossing Colonel Mellows – a keen railway follower – looked up and down the line. There was a train standing on the south side of the crossing some 200yards away, obviously waiting for the signal to proceed northwards towards the crossing. The Colonel remarked to his friend ‘That’s the 4pm to London’ then got back into the car. Mr Percival opened the gates and watched the car slowly cross the line.  Neither appears to have looked in the other direction. Later Mr Percival said his impression was that Colonel Mellows was looking in one direction at the stationary train and just didn’t notice a fast express that was bearing down on him from the other direction. The train ploughed into his car and instantly killed the colonel and his dog.
Colonel Mellows was buried in the city with full civic honours; his faithful Labrador was buried beside the fatal stretch of line.
In time there were stories of strange happenings at the crossing. Over a dozen signalmen reported having experienced inexplicable events, so much so that some refused to work the box. Mr D. Ellis, signalman at Conington from 1956 until 1958 remembered looking out from the remote box over the flat wind-swept fens and hearing gates clanging to and fro when they were locked.

In a BBC interview in 1973 several signalmen gave accounts of seeing a large black car drawing up to the crossing, obviously waiting to cross the line. By the time they had walked down to perform their duty, the car had vanished. Other signalmen reported sighting the apparition of the phantom car and hearing the crunch of gravel as it approached the crossing. In broad daylight one man said he was able to define a mascot on the radiator which seemed to be the figure of a lady. Colonel Mellows’ car had such a mascot. Everything pointed to the fact that Colonel Mellows had returned to the scene of his tragic death.
Mr Norman Jinks, who had custody of the box for many years, used to take his dog for a walk near the crossing but the animal was always very distressed whenever they passed the spot where Colonel Mellows’ Labrador was buried.  The whole area was regarded as highly emotive because of the unexplained events.

The signal box was later removed as part of the Peterborough area signalling modernisation with the crossing then controlled by remote-control television from the next box down the line at Holme. The official explanation of the removal of Conington box, and the choice of Holme to supervise several crossings in the area, was based on technical considerations but one wonders how much of that decision was based on the events at Conington. Now, many years later, the crossing is still regarded with a touch of fear at night but today’s high-speed trains fly noisily along the main line over the crossing – their passengers little realising that they are passing over the scene of such tragic events.

I say ‘events’ because there had been another tragic event there a few years previous.  I’ll tell you about that before this Hallowe’en has ended!

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Flowhub IoT workshop at Bitraf: sensors, access control, and more

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I just got back to Berlin from the Bitraf IoT hackathon we organized in Oslo, Norway. This hackathon was the first of two IoT workshops around MsgFlo and Flowhub IoT. The second will be held at c-base in Berlin this coming weekend.

Bitraf and the existing IoT setup

Bitraf is a large non-profit makerspace in the center of Oslo. It provides co-working facilities, as well as labs and a large selection of computer controlled tools for building things. Members have 24/7 access to the space, and are provided with everything needed for CNC milling, laser cutting, 3D-printing and more.

The space uses the Flowhub IoT stack of MsgFlo and Mosquitto for business-critical things like the door locks that members can open with their smartphone.

Bitraf lock system

In addition to access control, they also had various environmental sensors available on the MQTT network.

With the workshop, our aim was to utilize these existing things more, as well as to add new IoT capabilities. And of course to increase the number of Bitraf members with the knowledge to work with the MsgFlo IoT setup.

Being a makerspace, Bitraf already had everything needed for the physical side of the workshop — tons of sensors, WiFi-enabled microcontrollers, tools for building cases and mounting solutions. So the workshop preparations mostly focused on the software side of things.

The primary tools for the workshop were:

To help visualize the data coming from the sensors people were building, I integrated the NASA OpenMCT dashboard with MsgFlo and InfluxDB time series database. This setup is available at the cbeam-telemetry-server project.

OpenMCT at Bitraf

This gave us a way to send data from any interesting sensors in the IoT network to a dashboard and visualize it. Down the line the persisted data can also be interesting for further analysis or machine learning.

Kick-off session

We started the workshop with a quick intro session about Flowhub, MsgFlo, and MQTT development. There is unfortunately no video, but the slides are available:

After the intro, we did a round of all attendees to see what skills people already had, and what they were interested in learning. Then we started collecting ideas what to work on.

Bitraf IoT ideas

People picked their ideas, and the project work started.

Idea session at Bitraf IoT

I’d like to highlight couple of the projects.

New sensors for the makerspace

Teams at work

Building new sensors was a major part of the workshop. There were several projects, all built on top of msgflo-arduino and the ESP8266 microcontroller:

Working on a motion sensor

There was also a project to automatically open and close windows, but this one didn’t get completed over the weekend. You can follow the progress in the altF4 GitHub repo.

Tool locking

All hackerspaces have the problem that people borrow tools and then don’t return them when finished. This means that the next person needing the tool will have to spend time searching for it.

To solve this, the team designed a system that enabled tools to be locked to a wall, with a web interface where members can “check out” a tool they want to use. This way the system constantly knows what tools are in their right places, and which tools are in use, and by who.

You can see the tool lock system in action in this demo video:

Source code and schematics: https://github.com/einsmein/bitraf-thelock.

After the hackathon

Before my flight out, we sat down with Jon to review how things went. In general, I think it is clear the event was a success — people got to learn and try new things, and all projects except one were completed during the two days.

Our unofficial goal was to double the number of nodes in the Bitraf Flowhub graph, and I think we succeeded in this:

Bitraf as a graph

Here are couple of comments from the attendees:

Really fun and informative. The development pipeline also seems complete. Made it a lot easier for beginner to get started.

this was a very fantastic hackathon! Lots of interesting things to learn, very enthusiastic participants, great stewardship and we actually got quite a few projects finished. Well done everbody.

In general the development tools we provided worked well. Everybody was able to run the full Flowhub IoT environment on their own machines using the Docker setup we provided. And apart from a couple of corner cases, msgflo-arduino was easy to get going on the NodeMCUs.

With these two, everybody could easily wire up some sensors and see their data in both Flowhub and the OpenMCT dashboard. From the local setup going to production was just a matter of switching the MQTT broker configuration.

If you’d like to have a similar IoT workshop at your company, we’re happy to organize one. Get in touch!

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Better Together is Ben Lee-Gleadall, a freelance Senior Creative & UI/UX Designer based in Brighton & London, UK. New website launching Spring 2018.

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Ben Lee-Gleadall is a UK-based Senior Creative with 10+ years’ industry experience. Graduating from the University of Lincoln’s BA (Hons) Interactive Design course in 2008 with a first-class honours degree, Ben is currently a freelance Senior Designer, having worked previously at the award-winning Studio View.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Putrajaya Agriculture Heritage Park

Showcases the commercialized crops in Malaysia, Taman Warisan Pertanian, or Agriculture Heritage Park is unique over its kind, where the park serves not only for leisure, educational and tourism purposes, but as a living museum. From major Malaysia comodity crops such as rubber, cocoa, oil palm, coconut, to more locally available fruits and herbs such as jambu (guava), jackfruits, mata kucing (longan), serai (lemon grass), sweet corn, pineapple, delima (Punica granatum), roselle, durian (the king of fruits), pitaya (dragon fruit), black pepper, coffee and many more, the park is simply a good place for a plant biology lesson.The photo above shows Ling Shing standing in front of an orchad of jackfruit trees.

Information center for the park. The right photo shows the staircase to the guest resting area.

Our photo at the guest resting area, just a few stairs away from the information center.

Expecting a free admission, we were paying RM 2 entrance fee per person. Of course, with that amount of money, we had spent more than one and a half hours inside the park, non-stop walking for most of the time.

Uphilling walking path after the entrance, with both sides flanked by guava trees. The buildings far behind are the apartments in Putrajaya.

The whole park is built on a hill. After 30 minutes of climbing uphill on winding concrete pathway (lower left), we reached the observation platform (upper row), where we took a short rest to catch our shortening breath. We could see Putra Mosque afar, from the platform.

Jackfruit (top), lemon grass (lower left), pineapple (lower middle) and roselle that can be found in the park. In the park, we have the chance to take a close observation on the fruit trees (below).

The most interesting part of the park should be the rubber tree plot with different clones of rubber trees. The plot features how the whole process of latex, from the collection of latex in milky colloid, coagulation with formic acid, and lastly the compression of coagulated latex into pieces of rubber.

Rubber tree plot (upper left) with more than 70 different clones of rubber trees. The latex collecting method was demonstrated in the plot (upper right). The hand operated machine, used to compress the coagulated latex into thinner pieces of rubber (lower left) and the completely dried rubber pieces at the end of the process (lower right). A kampung look hut is built at the middle of the plot, serves as the rubber exhibition center with some nice beautiful flora nearby (below).

Heavily ladened feet always make us hungry. Agriculture Heritage Park provides our need with food stalls, ranged from local delicacies, chicken rice, roti John, fruit juices, to famous Satay Kajang Haji Samuri.

This park, for us, is more worth a visit than Putrajaya Botanical Garden. At least, we would have the chance to get to know how the trees, where the fruits come from look like. For example, for the first time, we knew that pitaya is the fruit from a kind of cactus tree, and how are longan and jackfruit trees look like. The park is definately a place where we can learn something new.

We were in fact "lured" to the park by the "Karnival Jom Makan Buah", or "Come and Eat Fruits Carnival" held in front of the park's entrance. The carnival, held on 8-9 August 2010, was not as interesting as the park itself. With around 20 to 30  of stalls selling local fruits, the carnival was lack in discounts, nor the variety of local fruits. However, we still managed to bought some sweet corn, mangosteen, mango juice, and a lime tree for our garden from the carnival.

Fruit stalls and the fruits in Jom Makan Buah Carnival.

Located in Precinct 16, Putrajaya, Taman Warisan Pertainan orchard opens from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm (closed temporary 12.15- 2.45 pm every Friday). The food court opens until 11 pm. The best way to get to the park is by car. Or, you can hoop onto a ERL to Putrajaya Station, and get a bus from there to the park. If you are from afar, our advice, take a Putrajaya tour from local tourism company, and look for the package with Agriculture Heritage Park. For further information about this park, you can visit Malaysia Vacation Guide and official site of Putrajaya.

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How I Maintain Bomb Natural Hair on a Lazy Regimen: Chinwe

• Aug 10, 2015

There is a common misconception that in order to have beautiful natural hair, you have to do a lot. But the natural gurus on our writing staff know better than that. Over the next several days we will share how our writers maintain incredible natural hair on very simple and basic regimens. Next up is Chinwe. You can read Tori’s regimenhere, Elle’s regimen here, Geniece’s regimen here, Cassandre’s regimen here and Portia’s regimen here.

Feeling fancy: shrunken chunky afro.

Short washing and detangling regimen (1.5 hours max)
I skip my usual pre-poo step and go straight into washing with a cleansing conditioner, such as As I Am Cleansing Pudding, or a gentle shampoo, such as Dessert Essence Coconut Shampoo.

My hair is already in jumbo twists from the previous week, so there is no need to section it off for washing. After washing, I slap on some conditioner and let it set under a plastic grocery bag, which is my go-to shower cap, for about 15 minutes. Then I lightly finger detangle each twist, re-twist, and rinse off the conditioner. Afterwards, my hair is plopped, sealed with my homemade shea butter mixture, and then air-dried overnight. I do this once a week, and it does not take much effort or time at all; I’d estimate that I spend about 1–1.5 hours on my hair on wash days.

Pinned up twists during the week
Styling my hair is a quick process – about 20 minutes – the morning after my wash day. I just re-twist my hair into 10–12 fresh jumbo twists, and that’s it! (Once in a blue moon, I will stretch my hair with heat after wash day so that I have more sleek jumbo twists.) The twists are then bunned and/or pinned, like in the following photos, for my “everyday” look. Maintenance of my hair over the course of the week is very minimal; I don’t do anything other than protect my strands with a satin bonnet or scarf while I sleep and re-bun or re-pin in the mornings.

The process literally takes seconds.
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Lazy days: jumbo twists in bun or pinned. (The ones with me in the purple are done on straightened hair.)

Fancy styling when the mood strikes
When I am “feeling a bit fancy”, I will remove my twists for a chunky afro to wear for a couple of days or do a fresh twist out if I want big, curly hair. If I’m feeling extra fancy, the moment may call for a braidout on straightened, freshly washed hair.  The “extra fancy” process is much longer and intensive, hence why it is a rare style for me.

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(LEFT) Shrunken chunky afro. (RIGHT) Feeling EXTRA fancy: braid out on straightened hair.

Longer hair requires a simpler regimen
This “lazy” regimen is something I started this year after annoyance with my long twist takedown process and detangling sessions. (Granted, it was only several hours once a month but it was still too long for my liking.) I also desired the freedom of being able to wash my hair more frequently given my new routine of exercising three times a week; the thought of going two or more weeks between washes just didn’t sit well with me anymore. Since my hair is long enough to put into 10 twists, I figured why not do that weekly! I was initially nervous about the styling, but it has actually worked out really well.

Ladies, what are your thoughts on my regimen? How is it similar to or different from yours?Ladies, what are your thoughts on my regimen? How is it similar to or different from yours?

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So reasonable! Gonna do something along these lines for winter. Tfs

She’s very cute and sounds doable.

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Funny story of the day (April 16th edition)

April 16, 2008

As y’all know, occasionally I am caught up in something that strikes me as funny. Today, another one of those moments happened.

On Monday, a coworker mentioned he signed up for a sprint triathlon. “Cool for you” I said. He’s a big biker…brought his own trainer into the gym to use all winter and goes out whenever the weather is good. So the swimming and running will be new for him. He was getting ready to head out for a run. I went back upstairs and had lunch.

Today, I was getting dress and he comes in:

Him: “Rahn, I don’t know how you do it?”

Me: “Me neither. What are we talking about?”

Him: “Running! I ran 3 miles, and I felt worse than going on a 60 mile bike ride.”

Me: “Oh that. Not sure what you could possibly mean.”

Him: “The pounding! How do you handle the !#)$! pounding?!? ”

Hehe, this was pretty funny, in my opinion. Since neither one of us are built like the Kenyans, of course we have these types of issues to deal with. We talked a bit about technique and getting shoes and what-not. (So, the other funny part of this is here, big guy giving running advice. Who would’ve thunk it? Especially a second time in less than a month.)


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Paul Revere House

300x300 Paul Revere Home

On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere left his house in Boston’s North End to begin the infamous Midnight Ride, warning the colonial fighters that the British were coming. The Paul Revere house museum is not only dedicated to the legend that became Paul Revere but to his actual history, his family and their lives in 18th century Boston. The entire house and its grounds have been restored and designed as they would have looked when the Revere family called his house home.

Having fallen into disrepair, the Paul Revere Memorial Association rescued and restored the house to be used as a historical museum and monument to an American patriot. His home for 30 years, the house was later converted to a boarding house for sailors and even later it was a candy store, green grocer, and an Italian bank. A near accident involving a kerosene lamp fire raised concern over the state of the house and its historical significance. It was purchased by Revere’s great grandson in 1902 and with fundraising help, they began this landmark’s restoration process.

As one of the stops on the Freedom Trail, the Paul Revere House and museum is part of the foundation’s tour itinerary which includes guided, informative walkthroughs. The museum is self-guided although guidebooks and staff are always available to answer questions and supply information. Family central activities and child friendly programs are offered periodically including living history presentations and Midnight Ride storytelling programs. The museum shop is open daily and sells everything from books and games to children’s apparel, colonial cookbooks, and Paul Revere ornaments. The Paul Revere Memorial Association was and is dedicated to the conservation of this patriot’s true history, including his home, and for the education of the public. Bring your group down, step back in time, and experience this period-style home museum in the heart of Boston.


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How to Create Team Spirit

by Bridgette Redman; Updated September 26, 2017
Guide your employees in becoming a motivated team.

A workplace infused with team spirit is one that is energized, innovative and motivated. Employees are eager to come to work because it is a place where they can thrive professionally and enjoy the company of co-workers. If you are a team leader or a manager, work to form your employees into a team. Your actions can create team spirit within the workplace and make your department more effective and productive.

Step 1

Share a mission in common. Your team exists for a reason. Make sure everyone knows what that reason is and that they share the vision of the team. Talk about why the team exists and ask everyone to contribute a viewpoint. Ask the team to create a mission statement and list objectives to help the team accomplish that mission.

Step 2

Agree upon the values of the team or work unit. Helping employees come to agreement increases their commitment to the team and their willingness to work with enthusiasm and energy.

Step 3

Make lifelong learning opportunities available to team members. This gives them reason to invest in the team. When team members increase their skills, they value each other more highly for what they are able to bring to the team. This increases their commitment to each other and increases team spirit.

Step 4

Bring people onto your team who represent a mix in temperaments. Different people need to fill different roles on a team for it to be effective. Create team spirit by bringing in people who can be leaders, relaters, socializers and thinkers.

Step 5

Hold all team members equally accountable for fulfilling their tasks. When everyone pulls her own weight, each of the team members are more committed and more excited about being a part of the team. When everyone is held accountable, everyone is more willing to perform at higher levels.

Step 6

Communicate well with all team members. Keep them informed of what they need to know, listen actively and be open and authentic in everything you communicate. Don't hoard information, but disseminate it as widely within your team as possible. Don't let your team members be surprised by news that you should have told them.

Step 7

Provide your team members with the resources they need to accomplish their goals. Nothing is more dispiriting than being expected to perform a task for which you don't have the proper resources.

Step 8

Manage conflict effectively. An energized work place with motivated employees inevitably experiences some conflict. Allow productive conflict to take place, but ensure there is an environment in which differences are respected and diverse solutions and ideas are welcome. Address conflict immediately and use agreed-upon procedures to resolve differences.

  • Teams typically go through several stages of development. These stages are usually identified as forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning (or transforming).

About the Author

As a professional writer since 1985, Bridgette Redman's career has included journalism, educational writing, book authoring and training. She's worked for daily newspapers, an educational publisher, websites, nonprofit associations and individuals. She is the author of two blogs, reviews live theater and has a weekly column in the "Lansing State Journal." She has a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Michigan State University.

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