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The Indoor Arena is open to community members 7 days a week, 8am-10pm as long as it does not interfere with a Riverwood Ranch scheduled event. Scheduling for Lessons and horse training take priority. Boarders and community members are welcome to book a time slot in the arena after they have checked availability. Please verify current COVID regulations when making your booking.

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  • Find a Time slot available that doesn’t have a Private booking (No Public Use)/Riverwood Ranch Private Lesson Sticker attached. Lessons that have no “PRIVATE” sticker attached are welcome to haul in’s riding during their lesson. However all riders must yield to the students if riding during these time slots.
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This week on cooking, coaching & conversations, Dr Lucy Burns showed how to create a delicious spinach & ricotta frittata as well as an easy chocolate mousse recipe.

  • olive oil or coconut oil
  • onions, chopped
  • 1 box of frozen chopped spinach
  • mushrooms, chopped
  • 12 eggs
  • 1 large tub of smooth ricotta
  • pure cream
  • Mingle Seasonings - garlic & dill
  • sun-dried tomatoes, drained
  • olives
  • grated cheese

  1. Preheat your oven.
  2. Heat an oven-proof pan with some olive oil or coconut oil.
  3. Add in some chopped onions and the frozen spinach.
  4. Add the chopped mushrooms to the pan and stir.
  5. In a large bowl, add in the eggs and whisk them together to break up.
  6. Add the ricotta and cream to the whisked eggs and whisk together.
  7. Add the garlic & dill seasoning and the sun-dried tomatoes to the egg mixture and stir through.
  8. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and sprinkle in some olives if using them.
  9. Sprinkle grated cheese over the top of the egg mixture.
  10. Bake in the oven until cooked through and golden brown on top.

  • 2 large avocados
  • vanilla extract
  • pure cream
  • 2 large spoonfuls of cacao powder
  • 60g granulated erythritol

  1. Remove the seeds from the avocado and remove the skin.
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Low Volatility investing: now more than ever

Low Volatility investing: now more than ever

01-06-2021 | Insight

Low Volatility strategies can handle changes in the investment landscape. This includes the rise of the retail investor, and low or increasing interest rates. Despite the recent performance challenges, we also believe the case for Low Volatility investing has actually  strengthened.

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  • Short exuberance and junk positioning helps explain underperformance
  • Recent rise of retail investor could support Low Volatility anomaly
  • Low Volatility stocks can potentially deliver in current interest rate context

Popular low volatility indices have significantly lagged their parent indices since the autumn of 2019. The recent woes for the factor can be explained by the fact that the market has been in ‘risk-on’ mode, i.e. riskier assets have fared better than safer ones.

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Low Volatility is short exuberance and junk

Low volatility stocks tend to be mature firms with stable earnings and high dividends, which relates to the academic investment, profitability and value factors. Given these style characteristics, low volatility strategies generally tend to struggle during rallies of expensive risky stocks, with rapidly growing balance sheets and weak profitability.

While it is important for investors to be cognizant of this vulnerability of low volatility strategies, they should not interpret it as a fatal flaw, because the growth rallies in question are not supported by improving firm fundamentals. Instead, they are fueled by massive multiple expansion, which eventually tends to mean revert. Thus, low volatility strategies are short exuberance, and although this can cause significant underperformance in the short run, this positioning ultimately pays off in our view.

Low volatility strategies also tend to suffer when distressed stocks rebound. These so-called ‘junk rallies’ tend to be shorter-lived phenomena than the growth rallies discussed above, but share many similarities from a factor perspective. The stocks in question tend to involve high uncertainty, low dividends, a need for fresh capital and low profitability.

In addition to being short exuberance, low volatility strategies are also short junk

Therefore, in addition to being short exuberance, low volatility strategies are also short junk. These features help explain the major drawdowns of low volatility strategies, but also highlight the main risk that investors need to accept in order to harvest the low volatility premium in the long run.

Alpha volatility can momentarily cause aberrations

Many investors count on low volatility strategies to provide them with capital preservation during severe market downturns. But during the Covid-19-induced market crash in the first quarter of 2020, the downside protection they offered mostly fell short of expectations.1

Low volatility portfolios are characterized by a beta well below 1 and a positive expected alpha which reflects their long-term added value. However, the alpha does not come in a smooth, steady return stream, but involves a considerable amount of uncertainty. Using data from real-life low volatility strategies, we can estimate that the alpha is associated with a volatility of about 6% on an annualized basis.2

The effects of alpha volatility are illustrated in Figure 1 using a Monte Carlo simulation. The black diagonal line reflects the benchmark return and the grey line represents the expected return of a portfolio with a beta of 0.7 and no alpha. The dots depict 2,500 simulated portfolio returns assuming an expected alpha of 2% and taking into account the effects of 6% alpha volatility. The blue dots denote positive alphas, the orange dots negative alphas but with some downside protection, and the purple dots negative alphas with no downside protection.

Figure 1 | Simulated illustration of the impact of alpha volatility on Low Volatility performance

Source: Robeco Quantitative Research

Although low volatility strategies typically provide the expected protection during market downturns, there is always a non-negligible probability that they do not. The important thing, however, is that this does not invalidate low volatility investing, especially over the long run. This tail risk is inherently present in low volatility strategies. Without alpha volatility, low volatility investing would just be too good to be true, with a 100% downside protection rate accompanied by a positive alpha.

Figure 1 also helps to explain another counterintuitive result, specifically that low volatility strategies can outperform when the market delivers double-digit positive returns. Therefore, low volatility strategies cannot only surprise negatively, by underperforming in a down market, they can also surprise positively, by outperforming in an up market.3

Individual investor behavioral biases could strengthen Low Volatility anomaly

Investors tend to overpay for riskier stocks and underpay for safer ones.For professional investors, the key issue is that they are lured away from safer stocks towards riskier ones due to the pressure to beat benchmarks and peers. Individual investors appear to be attracted to risky stocks for different reasons, most notably their resemblance to lottery tickets.

For example, recent research examines the performance and trading behavior of investors using the commission-free Robinhood trading app.5  This study finds that these investors exhibit strong herding behavior, with a preference for buying risky, attention-grabbing stocks. This is clearly the kind of individual investor behavior that is related to the low volatility anomaly

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is another innovation that has been massively embraced by individual investors. One study examines specialized ETFs that track niche portfolios and charge high fees. The researchers find that these products hold stocks with characteristics that are appealing to retail and sentiment-driven investors, such as high recent performance, media exposure and sentiment.6  This is again typical of the kind of behavior that supports the low volatility anomaly.

At Robeco, we recently examined the low volatility effect in the local Chinese stock market, which offers a rare opportunity for what we believe to be a true independent out-of-sample test. Moreover, it is a market that is heavily dominated by individual investors. In our research, we uncover the presence of a strong low volatility effect in the Chinese A-share market.7

The recent rise of the retail investor is more likely to strengthen than to weaken the low volatility anomaly

Thus, we believe the recent rise of the retail investor is more likely to strengthen than to weaken the low volatility anomaly, as these investors are particularly prone to the kind of behavioral biases which cause risky assets to become overpriced.

Low Volatility strategies can still deliver in prevalent interest rate environment

Numerous studies have established that low volatility stocks exhibit bond-like properties. So, falling interest rates provide some tailwinds, while rising rates tend to be a headwind.8  For 40 years, low volatility strategies were able to benefit from steadily decreasing rates. But now that they have reached zero, or even negative levels in numerous developed markets, can they still deliver in a world with structurally low rates, or if rates were to start rising again?

To assess the potential adverse impact of increasing rates, we take into account a 1994-like scenario. During this ‘annus horribilis’, 10-year Treasury yields rose by 200 basis points and average bond returns were about -10%. In our research, we estimated that low volatility stocks have a beta relative to bonds of about 0.3.9  In such a scenario, low volatility strategies would, therefore, take an expected hit of -3% (= -10% x 0.3).

Taken at face value, this is quite a sizable blow. However, compared to the regular alpha volatility of about 6% per annum, it is not particularly extreme. In other words, the impact of rate changes is essentially a second-order effect, that is typically overwhelmed by the influence of other factors – i.e. alpha volatility – on the performance of low volatility strategies at all times.

There is also the alternate, and arguably more likely, scenario that interest rates will remain low for many years. History suggests that low interest rates are not necessarily problematic for low volatility stocks. In one of our studies, we found that the volatility factor was able to deliver solid returns in the US during the 1940s and 1950s, when interest rates were structurally low.10

Altogether, we believe the case for low volatility has not weakened, but in fact strengthened.

1See: Mosselaar, J.S., 2021. “Dissecting the 2020 performance of low volatility indices.” Robeco article.
2This estimate is based on long-term data for the Robeco Global Conservative Equities strategy and the MSCI World Minimum Volatility index, both in EUR.
3See: Blitz, D., and van Vliet, P., 2014. “Low volatility investing: Expect the unexpected”, Robeco white paper. In this paper, we showed that low volatility investors should be prepared for this kind of unexpected outcomes using 85 years of historical data.
4Blitz, D., Falkenstein, E., and van Vliet, P., 2014. “Explanations for the volatility effect: An overview based on the CAPM assumptions.” Journal of Portfolio Management 40(3), 61-76.
5See: Barber, B., Huang, X., Odean, T., and Schwarz, C., 2020. “Attention induced trading and returns: Evidence from Robinhood users.” SSRN working paper, no. 3715077.
6See: Ben-David, I., Franzoni, F., Kim, B., and Moussawi, R., 2021. “Competition for attention in the ETF space.” SSRN working paper, no. 3765063.
7See: Blitz, D., Hanauer, M., and van Vliet, P., 2021. “The volatility effect in China” Journal of Asset Management, forthcoming.
8See: Baker, M., and Wurgler, J., 2012. “Comovement and predictability relationships between bonds and the cross-section of stocks.” Review of Asset Pricing Studies 2(1), 57-87; De Franco, C., Monnier, B. and Rulik, K., 2017. “Interest rate exposure of volatility portfolios.” Journal of Index Investing 8(2), 53-67; and Blitz, D., 2020. “The risk-free asset implied by the market: Medium-term bonds instead of short-term bills.” Journal of Portfolio Management 46(8), 120-132.
9Blitz, D., van der Grient, G., and van Vliet, P., 2014. “Interest rate risk in low volatility strategies”, Robeco white paper.
10See: Blitz, D., van Vliet, P., and Baltussen, G., 2020. “The volatility effect revisited.” Journal of Portfolio Management 46(2), 45-63.

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U.S. Sharps New Model 1863 Metallic Cartridge Conversion Carbine

Manufacturer: Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company
Model: NM 1863 Conversion
Type: Rifle
Gauge: 50-70 U.S. Govt
Barrel: 22 inch round
Finish: blue/casehardened
Stock: walnut
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Class: Antique

This Sharps was originally manufactured in 1863-1865 as a percussion carbine for use in the Civil War, and was one of 31,098 carbines returned by the U.S. Government to Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Co. in 1867, who received a contract for refurbishment and alteration of their rifles for use with metallic cartridges. This example retains its original .52 caliber six-groove rifling, now intended for chambering of the .50-70 Government cartridge. Standard markings and features. "F" and "EAW" inspector marks on the left side of the barrel, and matching serial number "C,27347" marked underneath the barrel. A "DFC" (David F. Clark) ribbon cartouche marked on the left center of the buttstock, typically found on these rebuilt alteration carbines.

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Very fine, retaining 70% plus arsenal refurbished blue finish on the barrel with scattered mild spotting and a patch of mild pitting starting 4 inches back from the muzzle end. 85% case colors with some scattered patches of light surface corrosion. Wood is also very fine with some light scratches and a crisp cartouche. Mechanically excellent.

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The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) is a 4,000-member scientific society whose members conduct basic and clinical pharmacological research and work for academia, government, large pharmaceutical companies, small biotech companies, and non-profit organizations. Our members' research efforts help develop new medicines and therapeutic agents to fight existing and emerging diseases.
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Liverpool are in need of competition and depth up front. The Reds are currently stretched thin in the final third. We need to get creative with solutions. Liverpool should pounce on Callum Hudson-Odoi with Chelsea reportedly open to moving him on.

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Reinforcements needed

Liverpool currently have Divock Origi and Xherdan Shaqiri covering the attacking line.

Neither has provided effective cover or depth in recent years.

Both could be sold this summer as we look to cash in and replace them with more impactful options.

Without depth then the front three become knackered with fatigue leading to injury and burn out.

Without competition the attacking line can become complacent, they need someone there to drive them on to their best form.

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Chelsea open to losing Hudson-Odoi

Whilst we don’t have enough forwards our rivals have too many.

According to L’Equipe in France, Chelsea are willing to lose Callum Hudson-Odoi.

The report claims that the West London side are prepared to offer him in a swap deal for Kingsley Coman.

The Reds have also been linked with the Bayern Munich winger in recent weeks.

Liverpool swoop for Callum Hudson-Odoi

The Reds should be alerted by Chelsea’s willing to move the winger on.

Liverpool should swoop for Callum Hudson-Odoi if he’s available.

The Chelsea winger fits the FSG profile perfectly.

He is just 20-years-old and has bags of potential, his resale value will be massive in the coming years.

We can offer him more football than he can get at Stamford Bridge.

It wouldn’t be the first time we bagged an out of favour Chelsea star and made him a world beater – just look at Daniel Sturridge.

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‘Million dollar question!’ Belgian health minister jokes on how long coronavirus lockdown will last
Belgium has been put on almost total lockdown as Europe battles the deadly coronavirus epidemic that has effected tens of thousands. Yet, Belgian health minister believes the virus will calm down in eight weeks or so.

When asked by a reporter about how long restriction imposed by the government to supposedly stop the spread of the disease will last, Minister Maggie De Block jokingly said it was a “million dollar question.”

“We are now heading toward the peak of the epidemic, after which the curve will descend. I think this situation will last for at least another eight weeks. It would be the normal curve,” she told a local De Zondag newspaper. The minister said the her estimation was based on the example of China and South Korea.

China, where the virus first originated, has arguably beaten the epidemic with seven weeks of rigid quaratine, which saw the disease epicenter, the city of Wuhan, put on a total lockdown. South Korea opted for an unprecedentedly widespread diagnostic instead but also introduced measures aimed at social distancing and self-isolation, some of which are still in place about a month after the disease passed its peak there in late February.

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Since March 17, Belgians have only been allowed to leave their homes to get some food or to help those in need, as well as for health-related issues. The nation’s daily life has almost been brought to a standstill since all entertainment venues as well as schools and universities were closed, while most companies allowed their employees to work from home.

So far, these measures, which also involve a ban on any gatherings and non-essential travels abroad, are expected to last at least until April 5. Yet, the minister’s words suggest that Belgians should probably brace for a longer period of self-isolation.

Belgium is not as severely hit by the novel coronavirus, officially known as Covid-19 as some of its European neighbors, like Germany or France, where the number of those infected is between seven and ten times higher than in the small European kingdom. Still, the nation appears to be 13th worst hit in the world and the ninth in Europe, as more than 2,800 people contracted the virus nationwide and 67 of them died.

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RUSH: I have to tell you something, folks. I’m embarrassed, once again, by our side, some of the Republicans up in Washington. It just appears that they cannot think strategically. They have no idea how to circle the wagons around their own. Everybody on the Republican side now, along with the Democrats, wants to throw Alberto Gonzales overboard. He may be an idiot, I don’t know. He may be a weak attorney general. I think that’s why they — You know, Ashcroft was strong and Bush had to get rid of him, and now Gonzales is weak. We have to get rid of him! All this concocted stuff over the US attorneys? There’s no crime. There really isn’t even any incompetence here in the process of getting rid of the attorneys. What this is about is that Gonzales may have not remembered what happened when or where. But whatever the status of Gonzales, it’s beside the point. Why in the world is it only…? It seems, every time there’s a public demand for somebody to resign in Washington, it’s always a Republican! Let me tell you who ought to resign right now in disgrace, and it’s not Alberto Gonzales, it is Benedict Arnold Harry Reid. He said this on Capitol Hill yesterday.

REID: This war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything, as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.

RUSH: And yesterday, last night, actually, on the Senate floor, he added to it.

REID: As long as we follow the president’s path in Iraq, the war is lost. But there is still a chance to change course, and we must change course.

RUSH: We are in the middle of the surge! You know, General Petraeus is going to be coming back. They don’t care to even talk to General Petraeus. I told you, and I’ve been mentioning, that the Democrats own defeat. They are invested in it. This is Benedict Arnold kind of behavior here: in the middle of the surge, telling US troops they don’t have a prayer, telling US troops they don’t have a chance, that they’re not capable, that it can’t get done, that we cannot win. The United States of America cannot win? This from the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate: Benedict Arnold Reid. Now, everybody is out demanding Gonzales’ head, and a bunch of Republicans who don’t seem to understand what’s going on here, rather than circle the wagons, go along. Look at Janet Reno. Janet Reno, the Waco invasion? Talk about an incompetent boob of an attorney general! She was not only incompetent, everybody knew it — her incompetence actually cost lives.

But nobody on our side said she ought to go. They circled the wagons around her after some show trial hearings. The Democrats in Congress, John Conyers, made a show of really excoriating her, but she hung in there. The notion that Pat Leahy and Senator Schumer could defend Janet Reno, but find Alberto Gonzales lacking is the joke of the century! I was trying to think this morning, can you think of any Democrat cabinet members that have been forced to resign under Republican pressure? They may have been forced to resign because of this or that, but I couldn’t think of any. Can you think of any Clinton cabinet members, for example, who had to go? Maybe Joycelyn Elders, but that was sort of a disappointment when she went. That was just a great time. Joycelyn Elders was one of the all-time great subjects for parody and satire, but beside Joycelyn Elders, I can’t think of any off the top of my head.

I just find this shocking. I’m almost stuck for words here, to have the Senate majority leader proclaim ‘the war is lost’ in the middle of the surge, all the while his colleagues are trying to lop off the head of Alberto Gonzales. If anybody ought to be shamed, if anybody ought to be embarrassed, it’s Harry Reid today: Benedict Arnold Harry Reid. This is stunning, to undercut the mission of our troops, to undercut the morale like this. I don’t know. You people that are under 40, you may not know who Tokyo Rose is, but Tokyo Rose did the same kind of things over the radio trying to demoralize our troops in World War II, lying to them about how they had no chance and they had no prayer, and it was pure Japanese propaganda back then. Well, you could call Dingy Harry ‘Tokyo Harry,’ but Benedict Arnold Harry Reid is, I think, a more apt and fitting description. I can’t imagine what the US military feels like, all these men and women who volunteered to offer their lives in sacrifice for this country, and Dingy Harry tells them that his party and he, has little faith — no faith — in their ability at all?

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Blessed Dom Justo Takayama

Samurai Warrior of God

Dom Justo Takayama was a Japanese Catholic samurai who was exiled from Japan for refusing to renounce his faith. He died in exile in the Philippines. He died of a violent fever on February 3, 1615 just 40 days after having arrived in Manila. Upon his death, the Spanish government gave him a Christian burial with full military honors befitting a daimyō. His remains were buried in the Jesuit church there and this made him the only daimyō to be buried on Philippine soil.

Descended from a noble Buddhist family, Takayama Hikogorō (1552-1615) was an educated and cultured man, a great general, a master of the tea ceremony, and he was an exemplary Christian. In 1564, he followed the example of his father and became a Catholic. Both were baptized, and then Takayama, taking Justin the Martyr as his patron saint, became known as Justus Ukon Takayama, or, as, Dom Justo.

O god, You have chosen Dom Justo to be a promoter of Your kingdom and a fearless

witness to the Catholic faith. We implore You to please grant us what we humbly ask
through his intercession. Grant us courage, like Dom Justo example, that we may bravely bear all trials of our faith.

Through your loving name Jesus Christ. Amen.

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At the Plaza Dilao in Paco, Manila, a statue of Takayama stands depicting him in the traditional samurai garb and a topknot. He is holding a sheathed katana that is pointed downward upon which hangs a figure of a crucified Jesus Christ.

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España Blvd, Sampaloc, Manila, 1008 Metro Manila, Philippines

The University of Santo Tomas also has a statue in honor of Takayama in front of the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex building.

Tea there are so many marvelous ways to enjoy tea. A nice pot of hot tea, iced tea, Thai iced tea, masala chai tea, maybe a blooming tea, or even a green tea known for its medicinal benefits, and FRUIT tea!! There are so many amazing ways to enjoy this beverage. And one cannot forget about tea infused meats, breads and desserts...tea is amazing!

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You might be surprised at how easy it is to make iced tea at home! There are only two ingredients in the base recipe, and three if you make sweet tea. This makes a large pitcher of 8 servings. Unsweetened tea is a fantastic healthy drink that is very low in calories. Here’s what you’ll need to make it:

Black tea bags: To make a full pitcher, you’ll need 6 bags. Black tea is the best type of tea to use. Remember that it does have caffeine, but only about half the caffeine level that’s in a cup of coffee.

Water: You’ll need 8 cups of water.

Sugar: Sugar is necessary only if you want to make sweet tea!
(TT: To Taste, as much as you want.)

Sweet Iced Tea
This easy method takes only a few minutes and the flavor is amazing.

  • 8 cups water, divided

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  • Sweet tea variation: 1/3 cup sugar or TT (use a sugar substitute TT if needed)

  1. In a saucepan, heat 4 cups water to a simmer.
    Turn off the heat and add the tea bags.
    Allow to steep for 5 minutes.

  2. Remove the tea bags (and stir in the sugar until dissolved,
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    Cool until room temperature, about 10 minutes.

  3. Transfer to a pitcher. Refrigerate at least 2 hours before drinking.
    Store up to 4 days.

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Mango Puree
Makes about 2 cups

  • 2 mangoes

  • Granulated sugar TT

  1. Peel the mangoes and remove the pit.

  2. Cut the mango flesh into small pieces.

  3. Add the flesh to a blender and blend until smooth.

  4. Add equal parts of the sugar or less (to taste).

  5. Transfer the contents to a medium saucepan and simmer for
    5 minutes over medium heat. Remove from the heat and let cool.

  6. Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Mango Syrup
Makes about 2 cups

  • 2 mangoes, peeled and pitted

  • Water (amount varies)

  • granulated sugar (amount varies)

  • Pinch salt 1

  1. Cut the mangoes into pieces small enough to fit through a juicer.

  2. Put the mango pieces through the juicer to extract the juice.

  3. Measure the amount of juice yielded and add half the amount of water.
    Add equal parts of the granulated sugar.
    (For example, if you yielded 1 cup mango juice, add 1/2 cup water and 11/2 cups sugar.)

  4. Transfer all the ingredients to a medium saucepan and bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat.

  5. Add a tiny pinch of salt to help preserve the syrup.

  6. Simmer the mixture for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat and let cool.

  7. Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Mango Tea Slushie

Makes one 16-ounce drink

  • 2 to 4 tablespoons mango puree (TT)

  • 1 to 2 tablespoons mango syrup (TT)

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Jack is Back!

Jack Moorhouse, Sale FC Rugby’s all time leading try scorer is back for another season. With more than 250 caps for Sale FC Jack is looking to add to his record number of tries next season.

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Jack Moorhouse, 2nd Sale try

Jack will be back playing in his 12th season at Heywood Road. He started with the senior colts alongside Ryan Parkinson and Fergus Mulchrone and then all three moved into the adult section playing for the Sale FC 1st team. Jack’s record speaks for itself and we’re delighted to have him back.

On his re-signing with Sale FC, Jack said.

“I’m delighted to have re-signed and I look forward to pulling on the jersey for another season at this great club. We have a great squad and I’m looking forward to see what we can achieve next season.”


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Do you need a new vagina?

A "Real Housewife" brags about her new equipment. But why do so many women feel they need so much work down there?

By Mary Elizabeth Williams

Published January 31, 2013 4:34PM (EST)

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Ladies, have you ever had your heart broken? Have you ever been betrayed by the lowdown dirty cheat you once thought you'd grow old with? Have you known the pain of watching your spouse live it up with some blonde 10 years your junior? It hurts, doesn't it? Kind of makes you want to buy a new vagina.

In anticipation of her new tell-all memoir, "Drinking and Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders," the perennially outspoken Brandi Glanville is opening up about her very public and messy divorce from actor Eddie Cibrian. In her book, the 40-year-old mother of two reveals that after Cibrian left her for singer LeAnn Rimes in 2009, "I decided that since Eddie ruined my vagina for me, he could pay for a new one ... A week after the vaginal rejuvenation surgery, he was on the phone screaming, 'What the f--k cost you $12,000? Did you get a nose job?'" She also bought herself a new set of breasts. Ah, I still remember when a big breakup just meant gluing crystals onto your vajayjay till it "shined like a disco ball." Simpler times.

Glanville is not exactly regular folks, of course. She gained her celebrity via "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" as a woman who lives in a world in which dropping a few thou on a new vag is just another thing to do after Pilates class. And the oversharing shouldn't come as a surprise either -- Glanville is already well-known for her loose lips. She's currently embroiled in a lawsuit filed by fellow Housewife Adrienne Maloof over Glanville's on-camera blurting about Maloof's private family details. And when a fan recently asked her about her current sentiments toward Leann Rimes, her terse response was that Rimes "can go f--k herself. Well, she has to, because who would want to?"

Yet as over-the-top as she may be, Glanville actually has much in common with plenty of non-Beverly Hills divorcees. A 2011 study by the British Transform Cosmetic Group revealed that a full quarter of women seeking plastic surgery were recently divorced. As Dr. Marina Peredo told ABC News at the time, "It's very hard to start after many years of marriage, and I think they take time and are doing something for themselves for a change." And going in for new equipment is an increasingly popular surgical procedure. Vaginal "rejuvenation" and "vagioplasty" can upgrade the whole works to give a woman "a smaller, more normal-sized opening."

I'm not entirely sure how having a freshened-up vagina that your ex-husband paid for is an emancipatory act – wouldn't you feel like he owned it? But Glanville says, "Eddie knows that he has never touched the 'new' me, and that gives me so much joy."

In a fascinating, disturbing feature for Guernica earlier this month, Kirsten O’Regan revealed the bustling world of labiaplasty -- "The American College of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons recorded 2,140 vaginal rejuvenation surgeries in 2010. The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons estimates that 5,200 procedures are performed annually." And in the U.K., labiaplasty surgery has risen at a rate of between 60 and 70 percent a year. So what happens when you get a below-the-waist tune-up? O’Regan spoke to an L.A. urogynecologist who claimed his most popular procedure is "the Barbie" – a "comfortable, athletic, petite look" in which the entire labia is removed. Another surgeon explained his procedure to her in terms of making a woman look "nice and tidy." Yet as one lovely anonymous gentleman recently explained, "I have never seen an ugly vagina." Believe it or not, there was once a time when vaginas didn't have to be tidy. They had flesh -- and even hair! -- on them. It was kind of nice, if that's what you're into. And people still got laid all the time and were basically chill about it.

It's not easy getting out there in the game again after a humiliating breakup. Glanville admitted to HollywoodLife this week, "I’m very self-aware of my physical appearance. It's hard to grow older, especially in this town where everyone is perfect! They’re all 20 years old and gorgeous and I’m now in the same dating pool as them, yikes, it's really hard! This town makes you insecure."

Glanville's goods – which Eddie Cibrian WILL NEVER TOUCH – are hers to do with as she pleases, as are every woman's. You want to bling it out with crystals or lop off your labia or tighten it up, have at it. But I'm pretty sure no man, no matter how badly his divorce messed him up -- and believe me, as a New Yorker in her 40s I know a boatload of dudes whose divorces messed them up -- has ever said, "That experience was so terrible I now need to buy myself a new penis. Better yet, I'll get my ex-wife to buy me a new penis, that I will then more fully enjoy putting in other women." And when a person says her genitals were "ruined" after a divorce, what she really means is that a deeply intimate part of her was ruined. That she was hurt and vulnerable, and she wanted to do something to fix that. But unfortunately for Glanville, all the cutting and tightening in the world still can't buy a new heart.

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams is a senior writer for Salon and author of "A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles."

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Corner Brook nursing students increasing presence nationally

Beth Williams and Ryan McDonald, students from the Western Regional School of Nursing, sit on the Canadian Nursing Students’s Association (CNSA) board.

Beth Williams and Ryan McDonald have had their eyes opened and futures expanded through their involvement in the Canadian Nursing Students’ Association (CNSA).

Now, the two third-year students of the Western Regional School of Nursing in Corner Brook are hoping to inspire others to broaden their careers as leaders in the health care profession.

McDonald attended conferences this year, unaware of what the organization really did and what the conferences entailed. However, he quickly realized how much he didn’t know about the opportunities that exist in a nursing profession.

Sights set on a career as a surgery nurse, the Deer Lake man now recognizes the significance of continuing his education — something he would not have dreamed of before being inspired by a nurse practitioner who spoke at one of the association’s conferences.

“It just shows all the opportunities, and how much diversity there is in nursing,” he said. “You don’t just have to work in a hospital, or on a unit, doing bedside nursing. You can work in the community, as an educator, and you are always a leader as a nurse.”

Williams, also of Deer Lake, has been participating in association events since her first year. Aspiring to become a public health nurse and work with children, she has also learned the significance of ongoing education. She is also considering options with teaching or as a liaison with nursing faculty and the student or nursing association.

“The (Canadian Nursing Students’ Association) wasn’t very known within our school,” she said. “Now, we are really trying to change that.”

At the national conference in British Columbia in January, they were both elected to the association’s board of directors. It is the first time a student representing the Western Regional School of Nursing has been on the board in more than a decade. Williams is the atlantic regional director, representing more than 25,000 nursing students. For her, she said stepping forward on the national board is significant for the entire school.

“It is just an honour to show that we are here and not on the backburner anymore,” she said. “When people look at our school, and we go to these conferences, they know who we are.”

McDonald is the diversity officer on the board, representing various groups and voices — often in minority — such as aboriginals, the LGBTQ community, and Francophones.

“Diversity has always been important to me,” he said. “I am glad to be able to be a voice, able to advocate for more minorities.

“It is about being a voice for 25,000-plus nursing students, and having their voices heard, and collaborating with people across the country.”

Their board positions take effect Saturday.

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Quick Answer: How Far Is It From San Marcos Tx To Waco Tx?

How far is it from Waco to San Marcos Texas?

The distance between Waco and San Marcos is 125 miles. The road distance is 132.4 miles.

Is it safe to live in San Marcos Texas?

The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in San Marcos is 1 in 34. Based on FBI crime data, San Marcos is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to Texas, San Marcos has a crime rate that is higher than 87% of the state’s cities and towns of all sizes.

Is San Marcos TX A good place to live?

For San Marcos residents, San Antonio and Austin are easy day and weekend trips. You get the best of Hill Country living without the high price tag or bumper-to-bumper traffic. People travel to the big cities for college, water fun, and incredible music. The good news is that all of these are available in San Marcos.

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The National Council for Home Safety and Security has named Buda one of the Safest Cities in Texas in their 2018 rankings. Buda came in at number 50 out of the 224 Texas cities that were ranked.

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Is San Marcos Texas A good place to retire?

SAN MARCOS, Texas – San Marcos has been listed as the best city in Texas to retire in, according to Forbes’ 2018 rankings. The city has a cost of living 13 percent lower than the national average, has good air quality, seriously low crime rate and doctors per capita meet the national average.

Is San Marcos pretty?

San Marcos is the definition of a beautiful small town, everyones nice to everyone and there’s so many neat river access entries that are breathtaking. san martinez is a cute little town with beautiful scenery. i love how it has a small town feel yet it is not that small of a town.

What is the prettiest city in Texas?

10 of the Most Beautiful Cities in Texas

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Is San Marcos expensive to live?

The Cost of Living in San Marcos The good news is that San Marcos is not as expensive as some areas, and if you can afford housing, the other prices are not as bad. Housing is a big expense here. The average home or rental in San Marcos costs about 2.8 times the national average.

Are there beaches in San Antonio?

Below the busy promenade, the authorities of San Antonio have created a long, wide beach of fine, white sand drawn from the sea. If you follow the promenade around the bay to the south, you’ll reach Bay of San Antonio resort with several small sandy beaches.

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