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[Dedicated to the workers who, like the characters in this story, have been taken for granted for so long. One day, I'll stop writing tiny stories about sentient trees. But not on Earth Day. Not today.]
The silver maple wasn't used to arguing. Gossiping, sure. Even when the news was bad, as it often was these days, the tree thirsted for the way the news slipped, sibilant, from one branch to the next. These were strange times, though, which was why an argument was shaking the leaves of every tree on both sides of the block.
We aren't supposed to move, a fragile ash tree shivered.
Several other trees quaked in agreement, until an old oak with limbs as thick as thunder straightened some of its branches. Even when the house behind it had been nothing more than a dream that flowed from an architect's pen, the oak had been there.
Neither are they, it said.
That was that.
Under the hum of the suburban night, each tree slowly worked its roots free from the ground. The silver maple shuddered. Here by the curb, it had soil. It had water. During the daytime, it had plenty of sunlight. It knew how lucky it was to have everything it needed.
Some trees had to walk farther than others. Not that driveway, a crabapple tree told its friend the cherry. Remember, the daughter started working in a hospital. The cherry tree bowed and laid the last of its spring-pink blossoms across the lawn before moving on.
The silver maple didn't have to travel far. It lumbered up the driveway of the house behind it until it stood in the middle of the blacktop. There it lowered its trunk and let its roots spread around it like a skirt.
A skirt. The silver maple thought about the child asleep in the house, probably behind one of the windows across from its branches. She sometimes used to lean against the tree when she would come outside to play. The tree wore her initials on its bark. I moved so you don't have to, it thought. I won't move again until you're safe.
The asphalt beneath it was cold and unyielding. The silver maple reminded itself that that was all right. Things were supposed to feel hard when what you were doing mattered.


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IBM Shared University Research Award of a System z10 Mainframe Computer Will Support New UCSD Campus Center
San Diego, CA and Armonk, NY, March 17, 2009 -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego today announced plans for a new campus center dedicated to inventing the next generation of virtual worlds, multiple player online games, and high fidelity digital cinema, using one of the world's most sophisticated computer servers -- the IBM System z mainframe.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) provided a Shared University Research (SUR) award to help the university jump-start its new Center for Next-Generation Digital Media on the UC San Diego campus. In addition to multiple peripherals and additional support, the IBM award consists of the company's newest System z10 Enterprise Class server with the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.).
"Students will have access to IBM's newest hybrid computing system with blazingly fast and powerful capabilities. UCSD students can now tap into security features and 'specialty engines' designed to handle a new generation of virtual world applications, where massive numbers of simultaneous users can share a single environment," said Bernie Meyerson, IBM Fellow and vice president of Systems and Technology Group.
"We want to facilitate the invention of the next generation of digital media," said Sheldon Brown, a visual arts professor at UC San Diego. "By significantly increasing the experiential richness of virtual worlds, we think they will become a proving ground for creating and interconnecting digital media of all forms, starting with games and cinema. As virtual worlds and digital cinema develop more visual sophistication and cultural literacy about how we use them, they will start to intersect and will become much richer and more complex."
To date, a lack of computing power has limited what users can see in virtual worlds, which may have thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of objects. When users have moved to different parts of the virtual world, they moved to different computer server nodes in the computing cluster, which resulted in making the experience of the total world very fragmented.
According to Brown, IBM System z mainframes offer just what the virtual worlds of tomorrow will need. The system's high volume processing capabilities combined with the dense computing power of IBM's Cell/Broadband Engine multiprocessor technology puts real-time interaction in a virtual world within reach for users.
While IBM mainframes can enhance the real-time nature and verisimilitude of virtual worlds, the experience of users will always be limited, in part, by the 'client' side -- the personal computers with which users enter those virtual worlds. To that end, the UC San Diego researchers are already experimenting with multi-core processors for client-side computing, including the Intel chip code-named Larrabee, which won't be commercially available until early 2010, along with the IBM Cell processor. With partners at three other universities, Brown has also won a planning grant from the National Science Foundation for an industry-university collaborative research center on hybrid multi-core computing.
"With so many processors being crammed on a chip, the home computer now starts to look like four or eight or 16 or 32 computers within the box," said Brown. "They are more powerful but they also have to finish their computation 60 times a second in order to provide real-time experiences in the virtual world. We cannot tell a person to wait around while we wait for the result."
Brown's team will also continue to explore new approaches to networking using very high bandwidth data backbones. With Peking University, they are currently studying techniques to share virtual-world serving between San Diego and Beijing.
Initially, the center will focus on new production platforms for digital cinema, building on existing relationships with Hollywood studios and additional support for the new center from the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The IBM mainframe computer is being hosted by SDSC, connecting directly to Calit2's digital cinema facilities with dedicated fiber optics and very high bandwidth connections to the Internet and global fiber-optic networks.
"Massively multi-user virtual worlds are increasingly important as media and social environments," said Calit2 director Larry Smarr, a pioneer in supercomputing and high-bandwidth optical networking. "Calit2 has made a major commitment to digital cinema through our CineGrid project, and we believe this center can significantly further state-of-the-art practices in digital media of all kinds."
Added SDSC director Fran Berman: "The boundaries have blurred between technology and the arts, and the synergistic environment represented by the Scalable City project represents the paradigm shift that is beginning to emerge. SDSC is excited to be hosting the machine and partnering in this important project."
"I'm using this virtual world as a platform for developing very high fidelity digital cinema," concluded Brown. "The virtual world can become a way to prototype cinema making -- working through camera shots, scenery, and even actors through avatars. Cinema production can be done faster and with more flexibility."
Related Links
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
Experimental Game Lab
San Diego Supercomputer Center
IBM University Programs press room
IBM System z mainframes
UC San Diego Giving
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Doug Ramsey/Calit2, 858-822-5825, email@example.com or Tim Willeford/IBM University Programs, 914-766-3389, firstname.lastname@example.com or Mylissa Tsai/IBM System z, 914-766-4294, email@example.com

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Hi and thanks for stopping by.
So who is Bubbablue and me?
I'm Emma. I'm a non-traditional farmer's wife. I have an Aga, dogs and Hunter wellies but that's as far as the stereotype goes. Previously, I'd never really seen myself having children, but it got to the stage where I had to decide whether I would look back and regret not having had them, or at least tried to have one. So N was born in 2011….
and Bubbablue and me was born a year later.
N's an outdoor loving, kind natured and often laughing boy. He's well into his primary school journey and it's going ok despite his ongoing reluctance to read anything out of school (except for food packs!). I share his story, but he chooses to no longer be seen in photos. Sad times for me and the blog!
Blogging has provided me the opportunity to not only journal our journey as N grows, but also discover other blogs and be part of a great community.
If you like down to earth, 'straight down the line' and matter of fact that's me, and that's what I hope you'll find here.
Real photos, straight talking conversational posts, and chatty social media.
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If you're a parent of a primary age child (or preschooler preparing for school), then this blog's for you.
I share tips on parenting, school, days out and camping, interspersed with snippets of farming life and photography. The aim is to make life easier, and to encourage mums to live a guilt free life to enable you to enjoy your children more.
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The purpose of the research is to investigate how the cross-cultural factors in the Japanese language classroom give influence on the cognitive and/or affective domain of teacher trainees and the learners.In 1995, the main data was collected at the summer teaching training program held at Tohoku University, where the graduate students operated one month intensive Japanese language course for the 20 second year students from Chon Buk University, Korea. In 1996, major data came from the autumn teaching practice course for the undergraduates. In the first year of the survey, the main focus was on the learners' cognitive/affective modification, and the second year, those of teacher trainees'.Data has been gathered through various procedures such as questionnaire on belief about language learning, classroom observation, PAC (personal attitude construct) analysis, stimulated recall, and journal keeping. PAC analysis is found to be quite powerful for approaching to subjects' affective conditi
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on, whereas stimulated recall gave great difficulty to the learners to speak aloud what they were thinking during the class.As a result, cross-cultural environment have raised learners' consciousness towards their needs and wants. Interestingly, depending on the proficienct level, the learners' perception of the classroom activities differs greatly. The high proficiency students could make almost any kind of activities meaningful to themselves, whereas the lower proficiency students often found little significance in the activities, thus evaluated them to be too irrelevant and too teacher-centered.For the teacher trainees, the cross-cultural environment of the classroom gave little influence towards the modification of their belief about language learning. Actually their main concern were on the teaching skills and prosedures rather than on the learners' perfoemances, reactions and behaviors. The PAC analysis, however, revealed that the teaching experiences had reduced trainees' anxiety towards the cross-cultural communication in the classroom. Less
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[TRANS] For cool Jaejoongie's fans
[TRANS] Jaejoongie's butt. Looking at the sea and shouting. Seok-chunnie [T/N: Tony] hyung. Aren't I cool? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Source: @Tonyhong1004
Translated & Shared by: JYJ3
Tagged: Hong Seok Cheon/Tony Hong, Jaejoong
[TRANS] For cool Jaejoongie's fans
[TRANS] Jaejoongie's butt. Looking at the sea and shouting. Seok-chunnie [T/N: Tony] hyung. Aren't I cool? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Source: @Tonyhong1004
Translated & Shared by: JYJ3
Tony you're a little late
i dont like Tony
I don't like him but he give most of the update about Jae so. And i hate that monster KHJ
I dont hate khj. Yes i am female. Yes i dont tolerate man abusing women. But i am a mother n a sister to my brother too. If people accuse my brother for example that he abuse his girlfreind i want them to prove it properly. (Most of us will use 'But i know my brother he wont do such a thing' remarks – well khj brother will also claim that but still nobody will believe him) Not hurl insults or curse him (i dont say u do that sis) when reading evidences, Not frm police, Or Not tendered evidences in court, but evidences FROM 'Dispatch'. N we dont even know the circumstances that derives the evidence. (Remember Jae when ppl distort evidences regarding him and sasaeng n what about jyj and their family meeting?) So yeah.. i dont hate him in fact khj is jaejoong freinds during 'hard time'.. he was the one that keep mentioning jaejoong in tv when other dare not say his name.. he even showed jae in tv. So now he is facing his hard time, well to me… he is innocent until proven guilty, because i want the same if somebody accuse my brother or my father… or my will grow up son. Khj already said the story is one sided, so i want to hear him out and give him my benefit of the doubt…
As for tony… well he is freind during happy time compare to khj. But tony is important becoz his political influence.. he is gay n most of the gay community (local n international) seem him as one of their leader. If i not mistaken tony is also a political leader in sk? (Not sure) Jae is not gay but that dork always befreind anybody…so yeah..
Heechul is freind during happy time.. so ok. To me jae is more influential more stable and well supported by fans, n remember the other 2 kings behind him king park yoochun n king kim junsu. Jae basically dont need heechul but then networking n playing politic why create enemy.. since heechul seem to forget what really happen, since it is 'time tested' that jae n jyj is so influential in japan n china n among international fans, i guess that dork also forgive but 'pretend' to forget what heechul did..
Tony is good friend. Maybe he is a little attention seeking, but he promotes JYJ name and stands by JJ in difficult times. He really went through hardships due his sexuality, so he looks like type of person who knows what is important, he knows who is true friend and knows how to return favour and love.
I never like Heechul, even more after his statement about JYJ betrayal, but nowadays he is not so bad, talking about JJ in good way and this way he is a little rebellious against SM.
Seems like he's having fun with friends. Don't see him hanging out with other two jyj. anyway it's good to see him enjoying life.
*butting in abt tony* tony is an attention seeker. fine. no comments. but if he really cares more about jae, he needs to refrain himself posting of jae's photo (more so the caption with *naked body or *butt or something like this). We know that Jae is 101% straight.But imo, Jae also likes attention (compare to other two).But Antis are keep watching every movement of Jae and JYJ. Well i dont know…I just don't want Jae to be hurt on any account @_@
@Linh Hoang Nguyen, I am an ELF here, I have been keeping quiet since yesterday, please enlighten me if heechul did say betrayal stuff on JYJ as to my understanding it was Sungmin and Shindong who were the passing remarks on Junsu's tweet.
Hi Moon.
I think people are still remembering Heechul's statement in a GQ interview back in early 2011?
But of course, a person and his views may change in time.
I'm happy that Jaejoong and two others have friends and family by their sides.
@wekk, ah, you are referring to this post: http://jyj3.net/2011/01/24/news-heechuls-interview-in-gq-stirs-up-controversy/
I thought this was supposed to be a post of Tony Hong's post of sharing photos of Jaejoong so why was Heechul mentioned in the first place?
Anyway, thanks for replying.
One person commented that does not like Tony. I, in my curiosity, asked her why and in the topic 'Jae's friends that I don't' I mentioned Heechul. I only mentioned the reason for not liking him and my conversation stopped there (as well for the people that I talk; and truly, they did not add anything; it was ME, initially, how said something about Heechul). I'm sorry if I disappointed in talking bad about HC. Of course we know it's Jaejoong who should choose HIS friends, but for what I see in the media (media for any means), I don't think Heechul is sincere in what he talks and acts. This disappoints you, but that's what I think of him. We make so may mistakes in life, if we became surprised to what people we see every day do, imagine this for celebrities that we only 'know' through the media, right? For now I get this negative opinion about him and hopefully I can change my attitude.
@Rafaela, Actually, I don't feel disappointed in you about talking bad about Heechul. I mean there are surely people who likes and dislikes him and like you I was just curious what did he say about JYJ and why his name was being brought up in this post so…peace?.
Peace. haha By the way, I like your comment, just felt the need to clarify this whole conversation about him before growing more . In other news, I'm happy to see Jae enjoy his free time; until the end of this year he and JYJ will have lot of concerts to do and then the comes the army….. he is soooo happy… this cute puppy ❤
you know, I tried so hard phrase my sentence just in case some might misinterprete so yeah 🙂
Thank you @Moon ❤ Is bad when a opinion of someone became the opinion of the adms. of this page and/or for the people who came see JYJ news here ….. But I have to say that I'm a little mad at Jaejoong …. I'm trying to lose weight and it is not easy and then Jaejoong put a picture of his medical tests and he lost weight 4 kgs ….. oh Jae !!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not do this to me !!!!!!!!!!! hahhaa chubby life is hard hahha 🙂
@Rafaela, I tried having milk and cereals (koko krunch, honeystars, corn flakes, etc) for lunch and goes without rice and I can loss 12 kg within a year, by 6th month, I have loss around 6 kg without exercising so imagine if I combine with exercising, I can loss more but different people have different method of losing weight so my method may not work well with other people but for me it works.


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There will never come a day that people are bored of Harry Potter - FACT - and eight years after the last book hit shelves, fan theories are still circulating the 'net. Now, JK Rowling has thrown her weight behind a particular theory, telling her eager Twitter following that it's "beautiful" and "fits".
The theory in question stems from The Tale of the Three Brothers, a story within the books of the Peverell brothers who are each rewarded for cheating Death. The rewards are the Elder Wand; the Resurrection Stone that brings people back from the dead; and the Invisibility Cloak, which conceals whomever wears it. If you're a Potter fan, you'll know these items as the Deathly Hallows.
In the theory, fans tout the oldest brother who is murdered in his bed by someone who sought the Elder Wand, as Voldemort. Snape, who adored Lily Potter, is tipped as the middle brother who committed suicide after resurrecting the girl he loved.
Meanwhile, Harry would be the youngest brother who lived his life under the cloak and, when he grew old, greeted "Death as an old friend" before going with him gladly.
The Tumblr user then muses that Dumbledore is Death, writing: "He greeted Harry at King's Cross and was the one behind Snape and Voldemort's death... He's the one who gave Harry the invisibility cloak too... And he had the stone and the wand too."
Rowling is right - it is indeed a beautiful theory - and her public approval coupled with how well it ties into the story makes us wonder... Did she have it in mind all along?


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Infinity War Trailer Quick Reaction (16March2018): The culmination of 10 years, 20 films, and countless post-credit scenes, the first official trailer for Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" is finally here. And it obviously requires an emergency pod and breakdown from B&Y. We're covering every moment and reveal from who Thanos' homies are (The Black Order) … Continue reading B&Y Mini-Episode: THEY GAVE TRAILER INFINITY
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The Swiss Family Robinson (Flack's Review)
Posted on | June 28, 2010 | Add Comments
Based on the book by Johann Wyss this movie is about a family who is shipwrecked on a desert island. To survive they eat animals, defend themselves from animals, build a tree house, find a grotto (a big cave) that they live in during the winter and much more. A girls comes and lives with them who the older boys fall in love with. Together the family must fight against pirates attacking the island.
The movie had most of the parts that are in the book but the movie adds the pirates. I liked this addition. The movie is much funnier and less serious than the book but they are both good. I recommend you read the book first.
My favorite character is Fritz because I like what he builds in the tree house and I like when he fights the pirates.
My favorite part is when they fight the pirates because it's funny and action-packed.
MPAA Rating: G. My rating is PG for action violence, romance and brief mild language.
I rate this movie 4.9 movie reels. Too much romance!!!
Director: Ken Annakin
Writers: Lowell S. Hawley (screenplay). Johann David Wyss (novel)
Website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054357/
Release Date: December 21, 1960 (USA)
Genre: Adventure | Family »
James MacArthur: Fritz Robinson
John Mills: Father Robinson
Dorothy McGuire: Mother Robinson
Janet Munro: Roberta 'Bertie'
Tommy Kirk: Ernest Robinson
Kevin Corcoran: Francis Robinson
Sessue Hayakawa: Kuala, Pirate Chief
Cecil Parker: Captain Moreland
Andy Ho: Auban
Milton Reid: Big Pirate
Larry Taylor: Pirate
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Enhancing Self Confidence, 24th Feb, 2014, Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Motivating Students for Zero Tension Study: Role of Parents, 23rd Feb,2014,Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Stress Management through Yoga, 22nd Feb,2014,Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Time Management During Examination ,21th Feb,2014,Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Effective Answer Formation in Examination, 20th Feb,2014,Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Stress Busters in Examination, 19th February, Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Recipient of the Prestigious "INDIRA GANDHI SHIROMANI AWARD" and certificate of Excellence on March 26, 2014 by Dr Bhisham Narayan Singh, the Former Governor of Tamil Nadu & Assam and by Justice Shri. O.P. Verma, Former Governor of Punjab, at India International Centre, Max Mullar Marg, New Delhi.
Prof Prashant Jadhav, Article in IIFM Communique (Jan-April 2014 issue) on Earth Day by Prashant Jadhav & Divya Sharma.
Prashant Jadhav & Kritika Joshi Book Review on Urban Forestry (written by Gupta, H.S. and R.R. Okhandiyar) published in IIFM Communique (Jan-April 2014 issue).
Parul Rishi, Enhancing Self Confidence, 24th Feb,2014, Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Parul Rishi, Motivating Students for Zero Tension Study: Role of Parents, 23rd Feb,2014,Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Parul Rishi Stress Management through Yoga, 22nd Feb,2014,Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Parul Rishi Time Management During Examination, 21th Feb,2014, Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Parul Rishi Effective Answer Formation in Examination, 20th Feb,2014,Nav Dunia, Bhopal
Parul Rishi Effective Answer Formation in Examination, 20th Feb, 2014, Nav Duni
Kala, C.P. 2012. A delicious affair. Down to Earth, 21 (1): 46-48.
Kala, C.P. 2012. Birds, blooms, and boons. IIFM Communique, 15 (1): 4-6.
Kala, C.P. 2012. Forgotten healers. Down to Earth, 21 (6): 47.
Kala, C.P. 2012. How Valley of Flowers got World Heritage Site tag. Down to Earth, 17 October 2012.http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/how-valley-flowers-got-world-heritage-site-tag
Kala, C.P. 2012. Phoolan Kee Ghatee: Prakriti Ka Anupam Khajana. Regional Reporter, 5 (2): p 31. [In Hindi]
Verma, Ashutosh, 2012. For people, planet & profitability, Upkram, Oct-Dec: 24-26.
Yadav, M. 2012. The future we want but the present we do not want to commit", IIFM Communiqué. April 2012, p 3-4.
Bijalwan, A. 2011. Toppling state of Oak in Garhwal Himalaya. IIFM Communiqué, 14(2 & 3): 10-11 (Volume 14, Issue 2 & 3, April & July).
Bijalwan, A. and Kediyal, V.K. 2011. Jaivividhata: labhprad bansh evam ringal (Hindi). Vigyan Pragati, CSIR Publication, 60(5): 11-14.
Dubey, J. (2011). Marketing: panacea for growth and survival of micro enterprises, IIFM Communique, Vol.11, No. 2&3.
Kala, C.P. 2011. Environment vs. development: a case of Uttarakhand. IIFM Communiqué, 14 (2&3): 7-9.
Omprakash, M.D. 2011. Operational strategy for sustainable forestry development with community participation in India, Completion Report – July 2011, IIFM. ISBN: 978-81-7969-075-8. Pages 93.
Ray, K.K. 2011. Socially responsible investing and investment mantra. IIFM Communiqué, Vol. 13 & 14, Issue 1 & 4, pp.6-7.
Sinha, B. 2011. Impact assessment of MGNREGA's activities for ecological and economic security. IIFM (ISBN: 978-81-7969-074-1).


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Fly your flag today for Memorial Day.
On Memorial Day, flags should be flown at half-staff until noon, then raised to full staff (and retired at sunset).
Just a reminder: When posting a flag to half-staff, it should be raised with gusto to full staff, then slowly lowered to the half-staff position. On Memorial Day, when changing the flag's position at noon, simply raise the flag briskly to full staff. At retirement, the flag should be lowered in a stately fashion.


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Choose Ecommerce Web Design
Unlike the Convention website that is intended to provide information and other services, an e-commerce site is designed to accomplish one thing, that make their visitors to make a purchase. In order to achieve this, an e-commerce website designer needs to consider a number of selling principles.
This article is dedicated to make you understand all aspects of design that goes into making a great e-commerce website. If you are looking for ecommerce website design services then you can browse the web.
Besides the fact that all the sites including e-commerce sites need to be well organized, user friendly and attractive, there are some features that are exclusive and at times, which is very necessary for e-commerce web sites.
Here are some of the features, rather principles that an ecommerce website cannot do without:
First and foremost designer needs to understand that people like to shop at online stores that are laid well and provide a great shopping experience. Trust is a problem when you want the customer to buy a product from a place that is not accessible physically. You will need to provide enough information about the owner of the website and why your website and the products and services can be trusted. You can get more information about it via various online resources.


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Yoga a potential therapy for cardiovascular disease: Study
London, Dec 30 (IANS) A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials has concluded that the popular mind-body practice of yoga can be a potential therapy for cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome.
Out of 1,404 records, 37 randomised controlled trials were included in the systematic review and 32 in the meta-analysis.
Compared to non-exercise participants, yoga showed significant improvement for body mass index, systolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
Significant changes were seen in body weight, diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglycerides and heart rate but not fasting blood glucose.
"This review helps strengthen the evidence base for yoga as a potentially effective therapy for such conditions. The results support earlier reviews on the positive benefits of yoga for cardiovascular disease prevention," the authors noted.
However, no significant difference was found between yoga and exercise.
One study found an impact on smoking abstinence.
The team concluded that there is promising evidence of yoga on improving cardio-metabolic health.
The study titled "The effectiveness of yoga in modifying risk factors for cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials" appeared in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.


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下面以书为例,看看怎么改编成TV series:
This topic reminds me of the time I read a book called Two Heroes, which is about a policeman fighting against gangsters.
It's such a page-turner, I mean, after I read the first chapter, it's just impossible to put it down. I finished reading it in one sitting. It's fair to say, it turned hours into seconds.
It basically tells a story between a psychologist Kris and a policeman Tony. The criminal forced the psychologist to steal a diamond for him, 'cause his wife was taken hostage. The policeman found out the truth, and he offered to help the psychologist, you know, to save his wife. During the whole process, they encountered countless difficulties and dangerous situations.
The description in the book is so vivid that I could actually picture the fight scene in my head. And I have to say, the author of the book is really brilliant, he left lots of suspense that constantly keeps readers excited and want to read more about what would happen next. / The plots are full of twists and turns, and it's like every 10 pages, something unexpected would happen, and you see, that's what makes this book so exciting.
Well, just like all the other books about justice versus evil, the policeman and the psychologist killed the boss of those criminals, and successfully rescued Tony's wife. However, Tony died in the fight with the villain, which is kind of sad.
So, you see, the whole book is really thrilling.
gangster = a member of a group of violent criminals 例如:
Chicago gangsters
page-turner = a book that is very exciting
sitting = a period of time that a person spends sitting and doing an activity 例如:
I read the book in one sitting.
hostage = a person who is captured and held prisoner by a person or group, and who may be injured or killed if people do not do what the person or group is asking 例如:
Three children were taken hostage during the bank robbery.
He was held hostage for almost a year.
The government is negotiating the release of the hostages.
The hijackers kept the pilot as a hostage on board the plane.
suspense = a feeling of worry or excitement that you have when you feel that something is going to happen, somebody is going to tell you some news, etc. 例如:
Don't keep us in suspense. Tell us what happened!
I couldn't bear the suspense a moment longer.
villain = the main bad character in a story, play, etc. 例如:
He often plays the part of the villain.
twist = an unexpected change or development in a story or situation 例如:
the twists and turns of his political career
The story has taken another twist.
The disappearance of a vital witness added a new twist to the case.
By a curious twist of fate we met again only a week or so later.
如果是TV series,唯一不同的就是"描写"可以变成"特效"哇:
The special effects of the fight scenes are so real. I would say the TV show is well produced. I heard they just shoot most of the scenes in front of a green screen, but what we see on TV, like the forest, the skyscrapers, the mountains that are covered with ice and snow are just so real.
Plus, the plots are full of twists and turns, and it's like every 10 minutes, something unexpected would happen. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I mean, I just wanted to see what would happen next.
special effects = SFX = unusual or exciting pieces of action in films / movies or television programs, that are created by computers or clever photography to show things that do not normally exist or happen


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Succeeding as a home-based travel agency means using "guerilla tactics" to beat out the glitzy storefront agency down on Main Street. And what better way to do that than to bring the "travel agency" to your customers' homes instead of forcing them to come see you in your "office". For many home-based travel agents this is the kind of "differentiator" that wins them loyal customers.
You may want to use your home to host a "cruise night" when you are promoting cruises or have a Hawaiian-theme party to promote great deals on a vacation in the islands.
The travel industry is a "$4 trillion dollar industry" and you can be part of that. People are making real money in this industry. Whether you want to work part time you can earn as much as $500 (or more) on every sale. That's not pocket change, that's a serious commission. Full-timers are supporting themselves and their families. A lot of them are seeing more of the world that they every dreamed of seeing before. A few of them are making very good money indeed, over $50,000 or more! Even the "American Society of Travel Age (ASTA) recognizes that home-based travel agents are the wave of the future.
Becoming a home-based travel agency is easy. The problem is knowing what kind of home based travel agency to be. There are probably many ways of being a home-based travel agency and no one does it exactly the same.
Are usually attracted to the idea of becoming home-based travel agency because they love getting involved in all the details of planning wonderful trips, across the country or around the world. Or perhaps they have developed some expertise in a particular destination or type of vacation or mode of travel, calling it "niche" marketing yourself.
Anyone who is halfway serious about pursuing a career as a full-fledge home-based travel agency -- even on a part time basis -- will very quickly qualify for the "IATAN card". This is the Rolls-Royce of travel agent photo ID cards and it can be used to get all the discounts and privileges world wide to all agents meeting the earned income commission.
One of the greatest things about the opportunities available to home-based travel agencies is that this is not a one-size-fits-all or all-or-nothing proposition.
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Whether you work just occasionally or put in a 60-hour week exactly how you work is totally up to you. You are completely free to concentrate on the destinations, activities or modes of travel that excite you. There's no one to tell you what to sell, where to sell it, to whom to sell it or how to sell it!
Think about that a moment. It means that you are your own boss. No one can tell you what to do or how to do it. You control your own destiny. Your success (or failure) is entirely your responsibility.
If that scares …. Well, maybe this isn't for you.
If that excites you, congratulations! You have what it takes to be a success as a home-based travel agency!
Although you are independent and on your own, you are never alone as a home-based travel agency. You must constantly work with others to provide service to your clients. Virtually, every home-based travel agency must form a relationship with a host agency. The host agency must be ARC approved with affiliations with a consortia and other travel industry organizations.
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Watch: Werner Herzog's 'Happy People: Year in the Taiga' Doc Trailer
by Ben Pearson
January 11, 2013
Though he may have just played the villain opposite Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie's Jack Reacher, Werner Herzog's first love has always been documentary films. We've just been sent the trailer for his latest film, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, in which the filmmaker turns his lens on a small population that lives in a huge Siberian tundra. It doesn't appear to have any sort of larger agenda other than capturing a slice of life in an area of the world most people have probably never heard of, and it's totally captivating and utterly hypnotic. It's everything that we've come to expect from Herzog. Watch this!
Here's the trailer for Werner Herzog's Happy People: A Year in the Taiga from YouTube:
Deep in the Siberian wilderness, leagues away from civilization, a mere 300 people inhabit the village of Bakhtia on the river Yenisei. This outpost can only be reached in two ways: by boat and helicopter. There is no running water, no medical aid or even a single telephone. The locals, whose daily routines have hardly changed over the centuries, live self-reliantly by their cultural values and traditions. Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Grizzly Man, Into the Abyss) wrote, narrated, and co-directed Happy People: A Year in the Taiga which follows a few veteran Siberian trappers through the Taiga's four seasons to tell the story of a society untouched by modernity. The film hits theaters starting on January 25th, 2013. Interested?
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This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen, Herzog is the king and it's amazing how he can make wilderness survival a metaphor for life.
Matt Peloquin on Jan 11, 2013
How? Says hits theaters January 25th, 2013, is it on VOD?
David Banner on Jan 11, 2013
I saw it back in 2010 so I'm not sure what's going on here.
Matt Peloquin on Jan 12, 2013
you are probably thinking of ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD. Herzog's doc about Antarctica from 2007.
Kath on Jan 13, 2013
No I'm not, this is the one with the trapper in Siberia with the dogs that he makes sleep outside no matter how cold out it is. I'm not sure why it says it hasn't been released because it has. Even Joe a rogan talks about this film all the time on his podcast.
Matt Peloquin on Jan 14, 2013
"to tell the story of a society untouched by modernity" So what's up with the snowmobile?
Nash on Jan 11, 2013
absolutely beautiful....a must-see.
$6296288 on Jan 11, 2013
Herzog has that eye and thought pattern that make me interested in anything he does! including cameos in cartoons for crying out loud.. always excited to see his work and hear his thoughts
Lando on Jan 11, 2013
Get some oil rigs in there, looks a boring place, not enough lights.
Carpola on Jan 13, 2013
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Beautiful Boy is a film based on the memoirs of Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. The screenplay based on these memoirs was written by Luke Davies and Van Groeningen. The story talks about the life and struggles of an overbearing father played by Steve Carrel and his drug addicted son played by Timothee Chalamet.
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Gringo is a crime story with a dark-comedic theme. The protagonist in this film, Harold Soyinka played by David Oyelowo, is tasked to deliver an experimental marijuana pill in Mexico. He is then captured by a drug cartel and must escape. Gringo was directed by Nash Edgerton and was released in the US on March 2018.
4. The Big Sick
Now, who wouldn't be up for a chick flick? The Big Sick is a romantic comedy film about a Pakistani boy and a white grad student girl. Nanjiani and Emily fell in love but realize that there are bigger problems in life. They have to deal with Emily's mysterious illness and the culture clash between their very different families. The Big Sick was directed by Michael Showalter and is considered as one of the top grossing independent films of 2017.
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Can I start out by saying that I hope I never have to read two books about communes in the space of a few weeks again? Probably not, but I did. It's just not my scene, man…
And while this hippy commune story – Mireille Juchau's The World Without Us – compares favourably to the last one I read, I need to stress that two coming-of-age-stories-set-in-communes-with-commune-destroying-fires-and-hippy-mothers-who-can't-read-plus-a-side-of-paternity-issues on the one prize shortlist is just dumb. Where's the diversity? Where's the interest for people* who don't like hippy commune stories that much?**
There are multiple plots in this story, some of which are heavily interwoven, others which are not. Most of the story is focused on the Müller family – they're grief-stricken after the loss of their youngest daughter, Pip, to cancer.
"I don't mean to hurt you, she says. But when I look at your face I see Pip. So I look away. He ought to be shocked. But he's briefly relieved. It isn't hate, or some other feeling between them then. It is at least love that averts her."
In response to Pip's death, mother Evangeline wanders the forest; father Stefan focuses on his apiary and alcohol; eldest daughter Tess stops speaking; and middle daughter, Meg, channels her worries into intricate drawings. But it is not just a story about grief – there's the new school teacher struggling to settle in; the discovery of a car wreck and human remains on the Müller farm; disappearing bees; the town loner trying to make sense of his heritage; the town gossip stirring trouble; amnesia, issues of paternity, alcohol abuse, environmental vandalism and much, much more.
It was all a little exhausting… A shame because there were some truly lovely moments in Jachau's writing.
"Tess sees the bare feet first, whizzing through the air. Then the chopstick shins and saggy knickers, the vulnerable dip where the spine meets elastic. It's her sister Meg, practising handstands and cartwheels…"
"Her mascara was smudged, a stray pin abseiled from her hair."
Likewise, if there had been less 'busyness', some of the analogies could have been extended – I'm quite sure there was more to be explored in relation to the organisation of bees (hive and commune comparisons and the need to work together); finding one's voice; and the idea of being foreign (from the introduction of imported queen bees and displaced German-born Stefan and school teacher Jim, to the exploration activities undertaken by a mining company in the surrounding forest).
"…he headed for the lands to find what the Belgian writer*** had so loved in bees: passion for work, perseverance, devotion to the future."
Further extending the theme of belonging or being foreign, a number of characters (three in total) were questioning their paternity, highlighting the issue of what makes a parent – biology or being present?
I feel like this book could have been so much better with a heavy edit (or perhaps Jachau could have saved some of the plot-lines for her next book?).
Lastly, I must mention the cover. It's sublime.
3/5 (Just. More like a 2.7)
Will it win the Stella Prize? No.
**and why in God's name has this situation been repeated for the Miles Franklin? Seriously, judges?
*** The Life of a Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck


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This text, which is the fourth volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. The Eighth Edition incorporates more women's history, while continuing to provide balanced political and economic coverage with social and cultural history woven throughout. This is the only comprehensive text available for the History of England survey course that has been revised and updated to include coverage of the entire 20th century.Walter l. Arnstein is the author of 'Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 to the Present , 8th Edition (A History of England)', published 2000 under ISBN 9780618001040 and ISBN 0618001042.[read more]
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Group 2 WATC Derby winner Respondent starred on a solid day's selling at the Magic Millions Perth Winter Sales on Sunday.
A close-up fourth a day earlier in the G3 Strickland Stakes, Respondent sold to local agent Damien Wyer for $57,500. Offered by Peters Investments, Respondent is one the Perth's most accomplished performers with 4 wins and 13 placings from 35 starts and earnings over $666,000.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
I made a calendar design. With this kind of things i'm happy that i have a graphic design background! Every month there's another new illustration above. On the right there is a little description about the illustration.
I realized that the week starts on a different day in America than in Europe. In Amercia for example it starts with "sunday".The dutch calendars starts with "monday" ...i always thought this was kind of weird because when we learn the days of the week as a kid we start with sunday. So i prefer the American way...
Monday, October 18, 2010
Acrylics on Rives BFK paper. 43,5 cm x 31,5 cm.
Finally finished this personal work. It was nice to try different kind of paper. I think i prefer the hotpress watercolor paper from Arches. I like the way she looks, i wanted to give the illustration sphere.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Beautybox fashion illustration
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
You have a lot of blogs these days, but i realize that there aren't videoblogs from illustrators, so i'm going to do this more now! This is a 5 min movie where i show you around in my atelier / workspace. I thought it would be nice to show where i work and paint.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Cover illustration: A.L.O.I.S
I finally finished my project A.L.O.I.S. with six illustrations for a little book. It's about people who struggle with addictions. I had different keywords like selfknowledge, convinced or succes to work with. It was great to make a serie and did a little character design because i had to draw the figure 6 times. Here are a few proces pictures.
The cover should show a figure who looks at himself in the mirror and standing in a fightposition. I changed the elements a little. The hands don't need boxing gloves because i think it's more natural without them and otherwise you refer to sport. The guy is smashing the mirror and breaks his own image. Sometimes you have to break with old habbits to build new ones!
Friday, October 1, 2010
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Five public health crises facing Houston after Harvey
Texas is reeling from Hurricane Harvey, with thousands of residents displaced by flood waters and a climbing death toll. But the dangers go beyond the rising waters, as the storm brings an array of public health dangers, from mosquitoes to mold.
Here are five public health threats facing authorities in Houston.
Contaminated water
Huge swaths of Houston are submerged in water — as much as 30 percent of Harris County, which includes the city and surrounding towns. In addition to the floods, which will take time to recede, the water also poses problems from contamination.
Experts say all sorts of chemicals are likely to be in the water.
"Pick a toxin, that's going to be in the water," said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. "Oil and grease and chemicals."
Houston is a major center for the oil and gas industry, adding to those worries.
Exxon Mobil Corp. said Tuesday that two of its refineries were damaged and released pollutants. The full extent of the damage was not yet clear.
Contaminated water could lead to rashes, burns or a range of other symptoms.
A chemical plant owned by the company Arkema is also in danger. Executives said they had no way or preventing the chemicals from exploding after the plant flooded.
The stagnant water will also provide new pools for mosquitos to breed, bringing with them diseases.
Houston was already "the mosquito capital of the United States," said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Now, the number of mosquitoes is only expected to grow. Flooding may wash away some of the breeding pools, but once the waters recede mosquitoes will recover.
"We're gonna have an explosion of mosquitoes because there's so much standing water, which is all breeding sites," Dr. David Persse, director of Houston's Public Health Authority, told CBS.
Mosquitoes carry diseases like the West Nile virus, Zika virus, chikungunya and dengue. And the effects are likely to last.
"The impact on mosquito-borne illnesses could be around for another year," Hotez predicted.
Lost medicines
In addition to a range of new health dangers, the storm makes it harder for people to treat health conditions they already had.
Many of the thousands of people who had to leave their homes behind could be without access to the prescription drugs they take.
Benjamin said it would be a "real nightmare" getting people the medication they need, noting that many seniors do not know the names of all the drugs they take.
Some people also need access to medical equipment, such as those who need dialysis.
Health and Human Services Tom Secretary Price told reporters that his department is working to find people places for dialysis treatment and to help people who need other equipment, like oxygen machines.
"What HHS does is identify where those people are or who they are, and then, in concert with the local government, let them know and so somebody can go out to the house or the apartment and make certain that they're doing all right," Price told reporters.
Mold is a longer-term issue that evacuees may not realize is a problem until after the flood waters recede.
According to The Washington Post, investigators with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found mold in the walls in half of 112 water-damaged homes two months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.
"The amount of water they have had, you can't avoid the mold. It will happen in homes that will be underwater for a longer period of time," said Maureen Lichtveld, professor and chair of the department of global environmental health sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
She advised residents who return to previously flooded homes to gut the interiors and rebuild, rather than wasting time and money to test for mold that's almost an inevitability.
Mold can trigger allergic reactions and asthma attacks. In some extreme cases, exposure to mold can cause death.
"Mold is a really big problem as people go back into their homes," Benjamin said.
Spread of infectious diseases
With thousands of people crowding into shelters after their homes were evacuated, the risks for disease to spread due to close contact will spike.
"There's going to be infectious diseases," Benjamin said, naming the common cold and norovirus as the most frequent.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that more than 30,000 people are in 230 shelters across Texas, providing plenty of opportunities for disease to spread from person to person.
"The solution is good hygiene and handwashing," Benjamin added.
Any health problems will be more dangerous for the most vulnerable — such as the elderly and the poor, said Lichtveld.
But beyond the physical ailments, she said, mental problems will be much longer lasting.
Long term, depression and mental health concerns "linger much longer than physical consequences. We're still seeing that 12 years after Katrina," Lichtveld said.


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Monday, November 28, 2005
Silly Question of the Day...
"If you know the name of a person who isn't very well and you don't say tehilim for that person and G-d forbid that person is Niftar does that mean that you killed them?"
Yes, dear. And if you don't personally knock on the door of every single person within 100 miles of your house and alert them to the dangers of not wearing seat belts and carbon monoxide poisioning, then if one of them dies in a car crash from not wearing a seat belt, or from carbon monoxide poisioning, then it means that you killed them.
The Wolf
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See Berachos 12b, "kol shefshar..."
- November 28, 2005 1:54 PM
- Enigma4U said...
That was not a very good analogy on your part. Alerting people to the dangers of not wearing seat belts and carbon monoxide poisioning might very possibly save some lives. Saying Tehillim for someone has never made a dent in anybody's chance for survival, and this is backed by scientific data. A better heading for this post would be: Silly Time Wasting Customs of the Day
- November 28, 2005 1:56 PM
- Unknown said...
Is this what people consider Hashkafah? I recall working at my old HS for a summer. Each week was an oneg at one of the rebbeim on Friday night. One person from NY asked, "Are non-black sneakers okay for elementary students?" The rebbe laughed, then realized he was serious. He waved it off, and noted, "Stupid New York shtick. I don't get involved."
- November 28, 2005 1:57 PM
- BrooklynWolf said...
The whole point obviously rests on the premise that saying Tehillim helps... otherwise the person asking the question would have no reason to ask.
My point was that even in accepting that premise the question is downright silly.
I'll have to check it out when I get home. Thanks for the heads up.
The Wolf
- November 28, 2005 2:17 PM
- M-n said...
"My point was that even in accepting that premise the question is downright silly."
Talk about missing the ikkar for the toful.
- November 28, 2005 4:28 PM
- The Hedyot said...
You call that a "silly" question? Wow, are you generous!
How sad is it that an educational system can produce such thinking?
- November 28, 2005 7:22 PM
- M-n said...
"How sad is it that an educational system can produce such thinking?"
That too is a silly question: it's designed to.
- November 29, 2005 9:52 AM
- mushroomjew said...
How about the converse:
If you pray for a sick person and he dies, does that mean you killed him?
Give me a break.
Doctors and medicine can heal physically. Prayer only gives psychological comfort.
- November 30, 2005 1:20 PM
- BBJ said...
I'm not sure I can wrap my mind around the potential guilt involved in this question. The Internet is full of lists of gazillions of people to say tehillim for. If I permitted myself to think I was morally responsible to pray for each of them, or bear the blame for their untimely demises...
Oh dear.
- December 04, 2005 11:53 AM
- and so it shall be... said...
...and they say there's no such thing as a stupid question.
- December 06, 2005 4:45 PM


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The behind-the-scenes of fragrance creation is a fascinating world. And, in my opinion, perfumers have one of the most creative and expressive jobs in the process. Not only do they work with lovely odors all day, but also they get to meet well-known designers and celebrities in the process—think Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Vera Wang.
Department store counters are chock-a-block full of new and popular scents, but perfumers really soar when they compose so-called niche fragrances. Produced in limited quantities and sold at specialty boutiques, these scents defy the conventional. They use rare ingredients, smell like nothing else, and generally cost more. True uniqueness has its price!
The recent Elements Showcase in New York City presented a niche-fragrance lover's dream come true. Housed under one roof were hundreds of novel scents hailing from Haiti to Europe, Morocco to the US. Perfumes from Spain and Italy were particularly in abundance.
In fact two of the five finalists for The Fragrance Foundation's Indie fragrance award originated in Barcelona. Part of the foundation's annual FiFi awards held in June, the Indie award winner was announced at Elements.
The winner of the prize was Amber Oud ($395) from By Kilian, a fragrance house founded in 2007 by Kilian Hennessy, grandson of the founder of LVMH. Part of his Arabian Nights Collection, Amber Oud is soft and warm with a touch of spice. It combines two elemental ingredients: amber, a rich, earthy, and resinous scent, with oud, a prized fragrance from the Middle East that is derived from the Agar tree. Other notes include bay leaf, Madasgascar vanilla, benzoin from Laos, and cedarwood. Perfumer Calice Becker from Givaudan created Amber Oud.
In addition, there were four Indie runner-ups, who were also in attendance at Elements..
Cuirelle ($185) by Ramon Mondegal Barcelona is a leather-scent, darkly sweet and spicy scent with a boozy twist. Master perfumer Ramon Mondegal represents the fourth generation of a line of distinguished Spanish perfumers.
Le Cherche Midi No.30 Eau d'Hiver ($80), created by perfumer Cecile Hua, takes you on a crisp morning's walk along a wood trail. It was inspired by the perfumer's love of the Japanese shiso leaf and it's aromatic green notes and red spice undertones.
Rima XI by Carner Barcelona (90€/$120) was inspired by the work of 19th Century Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. It's a softly spice-laden fragrance that contains cardamom, black pepper, mint, saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, and coriander. Sonia Constant is the perfumer behind this enveloping scent.
Terrasse à St-Germain by Jul et Mad ($280) is a woody, floral, musky fragrance meant to conjure up a chance encounter on the terrace of a Parisian café. Created by perfumer Dorothée Piot, this scent contains notes of grapefruit, tangerine, rhubarb, freesia, lotus, blue rose, musk, sandalwood, and patchouli.
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Progressive Cinema in Toronto: An Overview
Still one of the largest film festivals in the world, and growing, the Toronto International Film Festival is now boasting around 400 films in a 10-day jam-packed extravaganza of celluloid, or should I say, digital data. Film production, funding and distribution are changing drastically, and it was apparent at the festival that the trend is away from movie houses. The convenience of online streaming is replacing the traditional way to watch films in a dark theater with strangers. DirectTV, Amazon, iTunes, Netflix and Starz are changing the filmic landscape, with many watching films on iPads, computers and even cellphones.
Funding is also moving away from the big expensive Hollywood blockbusters toward crowd-funded independent films, with final credits rolling endlessly, listing every supporter who gave money online. And as for production, there are now even feature films that are made entirely with an iPhone! Movie making has reached the masses!
However, the thrill of cinema and the smell of celluloid are apparent everywhere in Toronto where hundreds of celebrities appear with their films and participate in panel discussions before enthusiastic packed houses. I was able to see only about 45 of the 400 choices, but this is still enough for me to give you a heads up what might tickle a progressive's fancy.
Michael Moore took center stage after his lengthy hiatus from filmmaking since his 2009 blockbuster satire,Capitalism: A Love Story. His newest, Where to Invade Next, is nothing like the title implies. It's a much happier and gentler Moore, far from a treatment of America's endless empire building.
It was one of the few major films that came to the festival without a distributor - and it left that way. Moore reportedly turned down enticing offers from Netflix and other online sources, preferring to save his film for theatrical release. Not surprising, considering the love he has for his theaters up in Traverse City, Mich., the State Theater being one of the most successful in the country. For him, nothing matches the excitement of a communal sharing of art in a large darkened room with bouncing lights on a giant screen.
But it wasn't long before the film was picked up by a new distributor excited to promote the film properly, starting out with a Midwest premiere in Chicago Oct. 23 followed by the Philadelphia Film Festival and eventual theatrical release this year.
It's often obvious from even the titles, what films would be of interest to progressive viewers. Trumbo is about the Hollywood communist writer Dalton Trumbo, Truth is about Dan Rather's last hurrah at CBS, Je Suis Charlie documents the mass killings at the satirical newspaper Hebdo's headquarters in Paris, Nasseris a doc that covers the span of the great Egyptian leader, A Young Patriot is a Chinese doc that spans 5 years in the life of a young man dedicated to Mao's communist teachings, and many more titles which will be reviewed in future columns.
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Of course the host country usually figures prominently in a film festival, and there is no lack of great films here in Canada. Long known for inspiring cinema and great talent, Canada is also known for its great tradition of creating thought-provoking documentaries, many of them produced and distributed by one of the world's greatest national cinema funds, the National Film Board of Canada. Torontonian Avi Lewis, along with his wife Naomi Klein, produced probably the most progressive film at the festival, This Changes Everything, based on her sizzlingly critical book about climate change.
Alan Zweig (When Jews Were Funny) offered Hurt, a penetrating and honest portrayal of a tragic hero of Canada, Steve Fonyo, who ran across Canada with one leg, a year after the more famous Terry Fox was unable to complete his journey. But Fonyo immediately fell from glory, into drugs and crime, and spent the rest of his life dealing with the demons of being once-famous and barely alive. Another penetrating Canadian doc isGuantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr whichtells the tale of the Canadian Muslim imprisoned in America's torture chamber on Cuban territory.
Music personalities figured prominently in this year's Festival, with insightful films covering the lives of Janis Joplin (Janis: Little Girl Blue), Keith Richards (Under the Influence), country singer Hank Williams (I Saw the Light), Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (The Music of Strangers), Palestinian singer Mohammad Assaf, winner of the Arab Idol contest (The Idol), jazz trumpeter Chet Baker (Born to Be Blue), and almost a doc on R&B singer Aretha Franklin (Amazing Grace), which was withdrawn at the last minute by the artist. It was the year of withdrawals as another film, London Road, based on a musical about the murder of London sex workers in 2006, was taken out of service by the director over contractual disagreements with the producers.
Famed American documentarist Barbara Kopple, after starting her career with award-winning political docs (Harlan County, American Dream) has recently made biopics about music celebrities including Woody Allen (Wild Man Blues), the Dixie Chicks (Shut Up and Sing), and now the soul singer fighting cancer, Sharon Jones. Although they all carry an obvious political progressive message, the biopics feel like high-end infomercials, especially the recent Miss Sharon Jones and her previous study of the iconic news-magnate, editor Katrina vanden Heuvel in Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation. In both of these she follows the lead figures, Jones and vanden Heuvel, wherever they go, with cameras in their faces, often in close-up nostril shots, with angles straight out of glamour magazines. But then, who wouldn't want to hire one of America's greatest documentarists to promote your image? Tragically Jones's cancer has returned, halting her plans to travel with the film.
TIFF has become a major film market, with buyers and sellers dealing with the new realities of the digital age. But the city still goes all out to provide the greatest film experiences for film lovers. Artistic Director Cameron Bailey, who started out with the festival as a programmer for the Planet Africa section, reflects, "I learned film is an art and it's also a business. And some people treat film as a product. And occasionally you get invited for breakfast with Agnes Varda and you remember why it's all worth it."
Festival planners offered one of the best gifts to film aficionados for closing night, a free screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, considered by many critics as one of the greatest films ever made. And to top it off, this newly restored digital version was shown in Toronto's premiere venue, the Roy Thomson Hall, with members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra playing the award-winning Bernard Herrmann soundtrack live. It doesn't get much better.
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Theres just something happy about Nhinja Sushi & Wok.
Maybe its the way the colors of the employees T-shirts pop against the clean, white space inside. Maybe its the modern design that puts soy sauce, Sriracha and Chinese mustard on display.
In my case, it was the look of joy on my toddlers face as he slurped up lo mein noodles from a tiny plate and chittered away while Justin Timberlake echoed around the restaurant.
Nhinja is all about quick and inexpensive pan-Asian cuisine a very family-friendly concept.
It seemed like wed scarcely sat down before the lo mein ($5.75) arrived. And when youre dealing with a mercurial 1-year-old, speed counts. I found the dish to be pretty basic, but overall tasty. Its egg noodles with vegetables and soy sauce. Not groundbreaking, but a tried-and-true crowd-pleaser.
The Mongolian chicken wok ($7.55) was a little sweeter and, with brown rice, felt a bit healthier. Its the kind of food youre happy to get when youre in the mood for Chinese. Lots of crunchy vegetables, plenty of well-cooked rice and nice big chunks of chicken in a sticky sauce.
Speaking of Chinese, have you ever had egg rolls (two for $2.75)? I was pretty pleased with Nhinjas rendition of the oft-maligned classic. Not overly greasy, but with enough flavor to be eaten alone. That said, I gladly applied the accompanying dipping sauce. Healthy? No. But it made me happy.
The gyoza (four for $3.75) come steamed, fried or pan-fried. We got pan-fried and were happy with the results. These might not hold up to the scrutiny of a dumpling connoisseur, but for the price, I would gladly get them again.
I was less impressed by the Nhinja Poppers (two for $2.25), which are a bit of salmon stuffed in a rice ball, tempura-fried and served with spicy mayo. They werent unpleasant, but they paled in comparison to the rest of the meal.
So now we come to the sushi.
Nobody calls it Nhinja Wok or even Nhinja Sushi & Wok.
Its always Nhinja Sushi because, I assume, thats what people go for.
Nhinja does a topnotch job of utility sushi at low prices.
the Philly roll ($4.95) has cucumber instead of asparagus, paired with
smoked salmon and cream cheese. The only complaint came from my wife, a
Philly roll devotee, who wished they had peeled the cucumber of its
tough skin. Otherwise, you pretty much taste fish and cream cheese. Its
a winner.
The JoJo
roll ($5.25) included grilled steak with asparagus and teriyaki sauce.
Im generally not a huge proponent of steak (or chicken) in my sushi
rolls, but I understand the need. Really, the teriyaki stands out here.
If thats your thing, youll probably enjoy this one.
interesting, at least to me, is the 911 roll ($8.95), which combines
yellowtail, tuna and salmon with dynamite sauce. The fresh taste and
texture of the fish is set off by the heat of the sauce. Throw in a
little wasabi (I always do), and youve got a party.
serves both sashimi and nigiri the plain-fish-on-a-ball-of-rice kind
of sushi if that is your preference. I got the tuna nigiri ($4) and it
was fine. Honestly, Id probably go with the specialty rolls here. Lots
more flavor for the price.
Nhinja is enjoyable. Its cheap.
generally tasty. And its fast, fast, fast. When I can give my kid a
couple of noodles and stop him from inappropriately screaming in the
middle of a restaurant, that makes me the happiest of all.
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Once you hear any of the singers, though, you'll know they're not only from Ireland but damn proud of it. As band co-founder Leo Moran once put it: "I love the West of Ireland, and the way people speak. It's a kind of Irish English, which is being lost by our generation because we were brought up on telly, and everything is the same."
Saw Doctors co-founder Davy Carton provides a few examples of this Irish English over the phone from Tuam (pronounced "choom"). "People in Dublin think they're the bee's knees," he laughs. "We're all what they call 'culchies.' We're from Tuam, and it's only a small town, but when we were growing up, we thought we were the bee's knees. We would call ourselves 'shams' in the town -- we would consider ourselves the latest in everything. The lads who would come to school with us from the country, we would call them 'buffers,' as a derogatory term." (An Irish slang Web site defines "buffer" as "a red-neck, although mostly used by red-necks to describe other red-necks living further out in the countryside, and likely to live on a farm up a mountain somewhere.")
Carton and Moran at first tried to reject their Irishness altogether, as any good shams would. Right before the Saw Doctors got together, Carton was in a punk band called Blaze X and Moran was leading a reggae band with the look-out-world-here-we-come! name Too Much for the White Man.
But their inner buffers were crying out for release. After the breakups of Blaze and Too Much, Moran started a rock duo with mutual friend Mary O'Connor and drew on Carton's large repertoire of unused songs from his punk days. Soon enough Carton made the band a trio, and by 1987 they were a quintet. Gone were the anarchic rants and Rastafarian riddims; the Saw Doctors were going to sing about Tuam alone. They were going to bring the world to Tuam and Tuam to the world.
Against all odds they did it almost immediately. Their fame quickly radiated outward from their hometown -- first to Galway, where Mike Scott of the Waterboys happened upon them and asked the band to open for him on his 1988 Ireland tour and his tour of the UK the next year.
Oh, yeah, the band also released a single called "I Useta Lover." The salacious tune about lusting at Mass enraged Ireland's bishops and opened the pocketbooks of the hoi polloi. Eventually, it became the biggest-selling Irish single of all time. The band followed that with "N17," a wistful song with a catchy chorus about the road that the people of western Ireland take to Shannon Airport and emigration. For many Irish, the scenic road is their last memory of Ireland on the ground, and the song's nostalgia struck a chord. Homesick Irish the world over snapped up the single and sang along at the Saw Doctors shows. By now their fame had spread beyond Tuam for sure.
But they've never been critical darlings. Some scribes have called them overly sentimental. The London Times called them a "people's band" (read: "not something you or I should be interested in"). Others said they weren't political enough, and yet more said their celebrations of all things sham and buffer were "too Irish."
"In an Irish context we're seen as very rural and almost nostalgic, because to celebrate place is not that hip really in Ireland," says Carton. "In Ireland they want to be the most modern and the most new and shiny. We didn't set out to do anything except [chronicle] the place that we live. We just happen to like the place we live."
Of course Texas bands, especially those of the country persuasion, are all about celebrating place, sometimes mindlessly. The Saw Doctors avoid Pat Green Disease by employing the local to reach the global. No hollering idiotically about Guinness and the Blarney Stone for these lads, thank you very much; they're after richer quarry. "We kinda take our lead from Bruce Springsteen writing about New Jersey, Tom Waits writing about the old Los Angeles where he grew up," says Carton. "We're old-fashioned from that point of view. But we'd hope that there might be little gremlins of what we say that might be universal."
And indeed there are gremlins on their latest release, Villains?, starting with the raplike title track. Between plenty of place-name checks, the song tells of penny-ante drug dealers in Tuam who work at the behest of hardened paramilitaries north of the border. One line -- "The guilty wear suits and ties / many of them drive fancy cars / I ask you / who the villains are" -- rings more than a little true in this city chock-full of Porsche Boxster-driving Enron hornswogglers.
Even if the Saw Doctors' music is mainly descriptive of Ireland, even if they fail at their mission of universality, they do so better than at least two of their more famous musical compatriots. Quoth the Edinburgh Evening News: "Future historians and archaeologists will get a better picture of life in late 20th-century Ireland from Saw Doctors' records than from anything by U2 or the Pogues."
That Scotsman's right. Shane MacGowan's Ireland seems to have come from books and twitchy whiskey dreams, while Bono's Ireland plays as if it were handed down on stone tablets from on high. By contrast, the Saw Doctors' Ireland is a mirror image of living, breathing reality. They sing of lonely men trying to score with lonely women outside fish-and-chip shops, of the beauty but also the stifling boredom of rural Ireland, of life lived under the watchful eyes of priests, nuns and bishops.
Or as Moran once put it in a tour program: "Born into a repressed, Catholic, conservative, small-town, agrarian, angst-ridden and showband-infested society, we're trying to preserve the positive elements of our backgrounds and marry them to the sounds which have culturally invaded our milieu through TV, radio, 45s, fast food restaurants, 24-hour petrol stations and electric blankets."
So perhaps the Saw Doctors are a fusion of the shams they once wanted to be and the buffers they have since embraced. Call them shuffers.


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John Tavares scored his first NHL hat trick last night when the Islanders took on the Florida Panthers. On a night that Bill Torrey was honored with the Islanders' fathers in attendance, JT scored two goals on the power play and one at even strength to keep his team in the game, but it wasn't enough as Radek Dvorak would bury a late one to put the game out of reach.
Tavares, who missed three games with a mild concussion he sustained on opening night, has come back looking to make up for lost time. His hat trick puts him first on the team in goals with five scored in the five games he has played. He is also in a three way tie for third on the team in points with Blake Comeau and Matt Moulson, as they each all have seven.
P.A. Parenteau and James Wisniewski were on the ice for the two power play goals scored by Tavares and were responsible with the assists on both occasions. Parenteau is surprisingly leading the pack with nine points on the year. The Wiz is right behind him with eight. The two of them have combined to be a very effective unit on the power play as Wisniewski continues to work shots from the point while Parenteau continues to find open ice, bury his chances and send crisp passes to his line mates.
The loss was Rick DiPietro's first of the year, as he is now 2-1-2 with a 3.31 GAA. At times Rick is making saves that shows he still has the potential to return to his form as an all-star goaltender. Then at other times he gives up big rebounds and lets in a few soft goals that you know he would like to have back. If the Islanders offense continues to stay in the shape that it has been from the start of the season, DP will have the support he needs to shake off the rust without it costing his team any points in the standings.
Josh Bailey sat out again to nurse his hip. The Islanders do not play again until they visit the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday. The training staff seems to have learned from their mistakes with Ricky and the fact that Streit, Okposo and Schremp are injured has seemed to provide the staff with a little more caution. The team has managed to stay upbeat and confident despite those huge losses, but things could get tragic if anyone else goes down for a long period of time.
Although the winning streak is over, the Islanders have plenty to be proud of and have earned their way to sit second in the Atlantic Division, just a point shy of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Many Isles fans probably never thought that they would hear the Isles were chasing or tied with the Pens in points this early in the year. This team has shown plenty of potential and should only get better as the injured ones make their way back on the ice.
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Mobile App Release Notes January 17, 2018
What's new in Kareo 2.3.3?
Assign and Reassign Clinical Notes
Added ability to assign and reassign clinical notes. This is available in the bottom toolbar when editing a note.
Superbill - New Billing Claim Statuses
Added additional billing claim statuses to the Superbill section of the app. These statuses include: Submitted to Biller, Approved by Biller, Claim Billed, Claim Settled, and Not found in PM.
Terms & Privacy Policy on Log In Screen
Moved Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to an implicit agreement upon log in to reduce taps required to log in.
Preset Time Interval Between PIN or Biometric ID Authentication
Added new setting that allows a user to set a preset time interval between PIN or Biometric ID authentication; to help make access to the app more convenient, while maintaining security requirements.
Bug Fixes:
- Resolved an issue where notes would show up unassigned when created on mobile


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Title: Spotless
Author: Camilla Monk
Series: Spotless Series
Genre: Romance, Women's Fiction
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Format: Ebook
Source: ARC from NetGalley
Rating: 5 Stars
Island Chaptal—nerdy IT engineer by day, romance novel junkie by night—just walked into her messy New York apartment to find Mr. Right waiting for her. No, wait…Mr. Clean.
A gentleman professional killer with a bad case of OCD and zero tolerance for unsorted laundry, March isn't there to kill her…yet. He wants the diamond her late mother stole for a sinister criminal organization. Island agrees to help him find it, facing the kind of adversaries who dismember first and ask questions later. Good thing she's got March to show her the ropes. And the guns. And the knives.
The buttoned-up Island is soon having a blast racing from Paris to Tokyo following the clues in her mother's will, and for the first time, she's ready to get close to someone. But falling for a hit man may be the very definition of loving dangerously…
This book blew me out of the water! There are so many things I can say about it but I don't even know where to begin. I downloaded it on a whim and ended up staying up the entire night because I couldn't put it down. The closest thing I can think of to compare it to is the movie Red with Bruce Willis. Monk is very gifted writer who puts her own spin on a hitman romance.
First, I must say that I absolutely love every character in this book no matter how big or small. Island, the lead female protagonist, is hilarious but also realistic! I found myself relating to her on multiple occasions. March, the male lead opposite of her, was enigmatic with just the right amount of charm. I felt like each character was well developed regardless of their role. I became so invested in the story, I think I actually cried at one point. While the overall plot wasn't so complicated that I was blindsided, it was satisfying to watch everything fall into place.
The only real issue I had with the novel was that sometimes the author would be describing something and I had no idea to what she was referring to. I would have to return to a couple paragraphs previous to understand what I was supposed to be currently reading.
Spoiler though, the ending is a bit of a cliffhanger. I am so angry that this book isn't even out yet because I can't wait for book two. Spotless is one of the novels that digs itself inside you and makes you want so much more. I feel that right now, no book can possibly compare and I will be stuck in reading limbo until a book half as worthy catches my eye.
Have any books left you in reading limbo? What are you looking forward to reading this summer?
❧ Arec
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Sydney Campus
The Sydney campus is located in the heart of Sydney's games industry, surrounded by both established developers and independent studios. Sydney is also home to Australia's largest visual effects studio, Animal Logic, who routinely hire AIE's highly sought after graduates.
Students studying at the Sydney campus are fortunate enough to be surrounded by a thriving games and film community and are provided with many opportunities including networking events, film and games festivals plus industry events.
AIE Sydney campus is located here:
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Local Area
The school is an easy walk from colourful cafes, shops and restaurants in Glebe or Pyrmont, Sydney's iconic Fish Markets, Darling Harbour and Broadway Shopping Centre. Students are only a short distance away from the Sydney CBD and the campus is surrounded by parks with easy access to public transport.
How do I get to AIE's Sydney Campus?
The 501 from Central Station is the fastest bus to the AIE. It leaves every 10 minutes in peak hour and stops near the Powerhouse Museum on Harris Street. It's just a short walk from there to AIE's entrance on Wattle Street. Additionally, there are a number of buses that stop along Broadway or on Glebe Point Road. Visit 131500.com.au for more bus Information.
AIE Sydney campus is a pleasant 20 minute walk through the city from either Central or Town Hall stations.
The Sydney campus is conveniently located just 2-minutes from Wentworth Park Light Rail Station.
The driveway into the AIE is off Wattle street, in the one-way section between William Henry Street and Bridge Road. Because it's in the one-way section, you must be heading towards the Anzac bridge on approach. The driveway entrance is opposite Fig Street, which is the best turn off to the Harbour Bridge and where Wattle Street becomes two-way so if you pass that, you've gone too far.
General Information
- Student Concessions are applicable to AIE Sydney students for discounts on rail travel, movie viewing, student software and much more.
- All Advanced Diploma courses are AUSTUDY and VET Student Loans approved.
Students who are moving to Sydney to study with AIE will no doubt be looking for a place to call home for the next few years. There are a range of options available to students and AIE is happy to assist and provide guidance to students who may be unfamiliar with the area.
As we are located amongst a number of other educational institutions, there is a lot of student accommodation options in the immediate area. Students may choose to source their own student accommodation through sites like Gumtree.com.au or flatmatefinder.com.au, or, choose a structured student accommodation environment like iglu.com.au, urbanest.com.au or unilodge.com.au (we don't endorse any particular product and acknowledge that there are probably some very valid options we have no listed here). We are also happy to put notices up on our internal notice boards as our student's often have room to rent in their places or might also be looking for accommodation at the same time.
AIE's Student Liaison Officers are on hand to provide guidance in the area if required.
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What does your night stand look like? Do you crawl into a cozy bed at night, look over at your nightstand and feel calm and relaxed? Sometimes a simple makeover can help promote natural sleep while taking your room decor up a notch. My husband's nightstand was really bare, it wasn't more than a basic lamp. He likes to lay in bed at night to read and relax and this corner was not helping. The light was harsh and there was nothing calming about the bare space. Take a look at this simple nightstand makeover I did to help him read, relax, and promote natural sleep.
My goal in making over this space:
- Not to spend a lot of money
- Use items I already had that have meaning to my husband
- Create a calming and relaxing space that would help promote natural sleep
Here is what the nightstand and lamp looked like before. Not much to see.
I chose to create a map themed space for my husband, he loves to read about history and at one point he had an entire office decorated with maps. I pulled out some of his old maps and got to work.
The nightstand has a couple of components.
The Shadowbox
To create this I used:
- 16×20 shadow box
- White craft foam
- Parchment card stock
- Printer
- Glue
- Adhesive foam squares
- Scissors
- Heart Stencil
- USA map
To keep costs down I picked up a shadowbox using a coupon and opted to make my own matte. I cut white craft foam and used card stock as the backing. I printed a line from one of our favorite songs on a piece of card stock "Home is wherever I'm with you".
I used a heart stencil to trace and cut out states that have special meaning to us. We got engaged in Vermont, we met and live in Wisconsin, one of our favorite pre-kid vacations was to Tennessee, and we just had an amazing vacation as a family in Florida.
I added the hearts with foam squares to the card stock to complete this piece.
The lamp
Take a look at how I easily covered the lamp shade with a map
We went from having a bare and harsh nightstand to a warm and relaxing space. I tried out a GE Align™ PM LED Light Bulb in this lamp. It gives off a soft orange/yellow glow that helps promote the body's natural sleep cycle. The bulb contains very low amounts of blue light which helps you rest easier.
My husband has been using this light in the evening, 30 minutes before bedtime, while he reads. Using this light can help your body maintain its natural sleep-wake cycle and help maintain better sleep rhythms.
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Styling the nightstand, form and function
I added a simple wood bowl to hold his glasses, change, phone and anything else he may have when he heads to bed. I also added a silver candle in a subtle scent we both love. I kind of love how all of this looks with his current book.
My husband loves his new nightstand and has been impressed with the bulb. He is able to relax and read in a calming space before bed. Not only does the soft light help promote sleep but being surrounding by things he loves helps him relax as well.
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Tell me about your nightstand, does it promote natural sleep? What does it need to help you relax at night?
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