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How Would You Build The Facility?
Safe, Clean, Bright, Inviting, Exciting, Entertaining, Empowering . . .
After 20+ years of asking that question and listening to the answers, it became simple. Understand the customer's wants and needs, provide a facility and services to meet those needs, and make the experience so enjoyable they won't want to leave. That is exactly what we did. Our $7,000,000 Training Center was designed from the ground up to provide you with the most Entertaining and Empowering experience available. We worked with the finest names in the indoor shooting industry, Action Target, and Carey's Small Arms Range Ventilation, to provide you with the safest environment and highest quality facility available on the market. Don't take our word for it, do your own research and see how many civilian, Law Enforcement and Military ranges they have created.
by our Coaches & Instructors . . .
Meticulously organized, brightly lit and stocked with only the most modern personal protection firearms, ammunition and gear. All items are tested and reviewed by our coaches and instructors prior to adding to our inventory. Most items in our inventory are available for rent so you may try them prior to purchase.
and post it so you won't fall prey to our those who will try to sell it. No more disappointing purchases and hassles trying to return a piece of equipment that fails to perform as advertised. You can even schedule a private appointment with our coaches and instructors so we may help you pick out the proper equipment.
Designed for Low Student to Coach/Instructor Ratio . . .
count. The 1st-floor Classroom is adjacent to our shooting bays and lanes. Moving between Classroom and Range and back has never been easier. This classroom is used for Group, Private and Semi-Private Classes and Events.
Classroom is used to prepare students for our Simulator, Shoot-Houses and Combatives Classes. Being a Training Facility, Guardian hosts Classes taught by our Coaches and Instructors as well as Professionals from around the country. Only Members will receive early notification of these classes and priority seating. See our members section for more details.
interacting with people . . .
Violence, Car Jacking to Active Shooter scenarios in Malls, Grocery Stores, Convenience Shops, Gas Stations, Banks, ATM's, Movie Theaters, Restaurants, and custom scenarios to meet your needs.
Our Coaches guide you through these life and death scenarios by interact with you and change the outcomes based on your actions. The more situations you encounter, the faster you will be able to process information and act accordingly when the time comes.
The Virtual Simulator is an interactive Use of Force and Firearms Marksmanship Simulation system that combines the latest technologies and tactics to defeat lethal encounters.
You will soon find training the mind and its ability to absorb and process information is a skill of its own. See why Military and Law Enforcement personnel have relied on this type of training for years.
Members receive priority seating and reservations. Non-Members are 1st come 1st serve. See our members section for more details.
your arms and legs are an extension of your will . . .
The Combatives Center is being designed to provide a hands-on force on force training. From Open Hand techniques to Edged and Impact Weapons to Firearms.
The center is being equipped with padded floors and walls, heavy bags, striking targets, padded fighting equipment and gym equipment. Advanced classes will include the use of training knives, Impact weapons and simunition firearms to provide the most realistic training available.
With the Combatives Center in place, you will finally be able to test your skills and find out which techniques work and which ones fail miserably.
Ever get in a fist fight in an elevator? Ever get into a gun-fight with a knife? Ever get into a knife-fight with a gun? How about a crowbar or baseball bat vs open hands or should I say your mind? Now you can, with equipment that lets you survive the encounter so you can learn from the experience.
Don't live in denial, there are times when you just cannot get your weapons into the fight or you do and they fail to operate. You will have to rely on your will to end the fight.
Being a Training Facility, Guardian will host Classes taught by our Coaches and Instructors as well as Professionals from around the country. Only Members will receive early notification of these classes and priority seating. See our members section for more details.
The best training for an event, is the actual event itself . . .
The Multi-Level Sim-Round Shoot-Houses were designed to provide you with the actual environment you will be in when you choose to not be a victim.
Both Shoot-Houses are 100% Modular and are reconfigured each week to keep your training dynamic. Each section is 4'x8' and comes in different configurations such as Walls, Doors, Windows, Crawl Spaces, Obstacles and more.
Our Coaches & Instructors configure the layouts for Homes, Offices, Stores, Gas Stations, Banks, Hotels, and more.
Fully furnished with 2 sets of stairs, working elevator, controllable: targets, lights, sounds, and cameras. Students and their Coaches can review their sessions in the control center using the video from the cameras in the ceiling.
Our Lessons plans were created with a Crawl, Walk, Run principal. Students will progress from paper targets to photographic targets to mannequin targets to real people. Advanced lessons include Force on Force training with full combative gear. You will make contact with your adversary, how the fight ends is up to you.
We rent all necessary gear and provide Coaches and Instructors with real-world experience to guide you through.
Finally, law-abiding citizens get the opportunity to train the way Law Enforcement and Military personnel have been for years. You will learn more here in 30 minutes than years of training on the range. The best training for an event is the actual event itself.
Members can have custom layouts designed for their own personal environments. After Members have been cleared, they have access to the Shoot-House.
For the Invididuals who seek a more private environment . . .
The VIP Service is being designed to offer an environment for those who seek a more private setting with like-minded people. The Private VIP Bay includes 4 spacious lanes dedicated to only VIP members. Lane reservations will ensure you never have to wait for a lane again.
After your shooting session, you can retire to the Private VIP Lounge and discuss the finer points of your training experiences with family and friends or other like-minded individuals. You can even have your shooting session recorded and review it on the large screen TV while relaxing in our Luxurious Leather Chairs.
VIP members will also enjoy the Private Kitchen, Short Term Storage area with personal lockers and Reserved VIP parking.
This dedicated parking and drop off area is conveniently located next to the entrance.
For those who require Long Term Storage, we offer an Equipment Valet Service to assist you in retrieving your equipment from your locker or car to your reserved lane and back again. This service includes configuring your shooting stall with your requested equipment, ammunition and targets. Upon completion of your training, we will clean your shooting stall and restock your locker with the requested items.
By joining our one of our three VIP memberships, you gain access to all of our shooting Bays and Lanes PLUS the VIP Bay, Lounge and Parking. The Platinum membership is our standard VIP membership.
The Founding Membership is limited to 100 individuals and includes the benefits of the Platinum membership PLUS your name will be engraved on a plaque and mounted on the wall for all to see. These plaques will forever remain visible to remind all that pass through our doors as the original 100.
The TITAN Membership entitles you to name one entity of the Training Facility of your choice. Such as Bay 1, 2, 3 or 4, Classroom 1 or 2, Shoot-House 1 or 2, Combatives Center, and Simulator. You will be given a private space on the wall to place your Picture, Name, and Bio or Company Name and Advertising. The Facility Entity will forever be named after you and all shooters will know you made their experience possible. This is a Life Time membership. See the Members section for full details.
For your business events . . .
Our Conference center is adjustable to three sizes, 20' x 26' for 520 sf, 20' x 32' for 640 sf, or we can combine both rooms for 1,160 sf. The Conference center is modular and can be adjusted for small to large tables with secondary tables for equipment or catered food if required.
The center is equipped with large screen TV, Projector and Screen, Audio and Video links, Phone Lines, Internet Access, Printers and office supplies. Addition equipment can be requested in advance or you can bring your own.
After your meeting, you and your group can take advantage of our Training Facility or we can create custom themed scenarios to complement your business meetings.
Our Coaches, Instructors, Range Safety Officers and support staff will create your group an experience they will never forget. For example, Guardian staff will reconfigure our Shoot-Houses to resemble your office. We can set up workplace violence scenarios or you can break your group into teams so they can work together in team building exercises.
If you're feeling bold and want to reward your staff. The CEO can be taken hostage in the office and your group as a team or 1 by 1 can take turns trying to save (or shoot) the CEO. If your feeling sadistic, we can even set up a free for all, with every man and woman for themselves.
Guardian can record your experience from our security cameras, handheld, and go-pros attached to your staff or ours. You can give your team a whole new perspective on group involvement.
See our members section for more details on Corporate Membership.
For your private parties and events . . .
Our Banquette Hall is adjustable to three sizes, 20' x 26' for 520 sf, 20' x 32' for 640 sf, or we can combine both rooms for 1,160 sf. The Hall is modular and can be configured for small to large tables with secondary tables for equipment or catered food if required.
The Hall can be equipped with Large Screen TV's, Entertainment System, Projector and Screen, Audio and Video links, Internet Access, Music Equipment and more. Addition equipment can be requested in advance or you can bring your own.
The Hall can be elegantly set for Wedding and Anniversary Parties or toned down for special parties such as Birthday and Holiday Parties, Sports Events, Card Games or even Bachelor and Bachelorette parties, and more.
You and your group can take advantage of our Training Facility or we can create custom themed scenarios to complement your special event. You would be surprised at how imaginative our Staff is.
Imagine the Wedding party where the Bride and Brides Maids go on the hunt for the Groom and Groomsmen with sim-munitions.
Or where the Birthday Guy or Girl have to search the Shoot-House for their presents, which are defended by the guests and their sim-munitions.
We can even dress your party in Zombie outfits with makeup and you can take turn repelling the Zombie Hoard in our Shoot-Houses. Your group can even watch the latest episode of your favorite Zombie show and recreate it with your friends.
Members receive discounts on reservations and themed packages and equipment. See our members section for more details.


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Daily Boater Boating News: Is it OK to be a Pirate?
Little kids running around the neighborhood dressed like Johnny Depp ... well, that's pretty cute. But the numerous boats in every US harbor flying the Skull and Bones.... well, that's just stupid. There have always been pirates and they have always been outlaws.
I think we can reasonably "take" boats that identify themselves as pirate, though what we'd do with them has not been resolved.
Don't get me started on the smiley face flags.
I'd type this comment in Pirate talk, however, I am concerned I may offend someone. Happy Halloween.
I hope the British Couple is well.
Love it - sounds like a fun event. I wouldn't change a thing about it, Matey. Arrgh.
Real pirates probably never were as much fun as our fabulous folkloric versions anyways.
Same legend-building process as King Arthur & Robin Hood. If a kid dresses up as Robin Hood for Halloween, do mugging victims get upset? Naaaah.

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The most exciting and potentially disappointing phrase ever uttered is, “They’re making that book into a movie.” From classic works to whatever is highly popular at the time, tons of movies are based on our favorite books with varying levels of success. But does reading the book first make a difference when it comes to our opinion of the movie?
As a bookworm myself, I’ll always say the book is better because I have visceral and emotional reactions to books while reading them. Kelly McDonald, an English major at the University of Utah, agrees.
The answer to this question, however, depends on how you feel about books or reading in general. Those who enjoy the experience of watching a movie or who lean toward the visual, will have similar visceral and emotional reactions to the events played out on a screen.
These individuals read books for the characterization — or just more characters, in some cases — and a slower or more drawn out development of themes, because the medium is more relaxed about how long it takes to tell the story. For example, the “Harry Potter” series is seven books, each several hundred pages long. The length of this series and the number of pages in each book gives J.K. Rowling the time to flesh out the Wizarding World and offer a fairly large role to the poltergeist, Peeves. The movies are — roughly — two and a half hours each, however. In order to portray all the plot points relevant to the central plot of the series as a whole, Peeves had to be taken out of the movies along with the well-loved character Winky.
Because movies have the ability to show and not tell, we’re able to better visualize the worlds talked about in books and understand non-verbal aspects of relationships between characters, the world and the plot.
Seeing is believing when it comes to books and movies, but only your personal preferences will determine if the book really was better.

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Whenever students are presented with a new concept, it’s helpful to give them lots of opportunities to practice it in different ways. The dice game is a great way to teach and review ordering and comparing numbers with your 1st grade students. For students with beginning number sense use activities with smaller numbers and as the students’ understanding of numbers becomes more advanced challenge them with higher numbers.
This two player game is perfect for children who are just learning to compare numbers. To play, each child rolls a die and the children decide who has the higher number. The player with the higher number takes one counter from the bowl. The children continue to roll their dice and compare their rolls. If they roll the same number they roll again with no one getting a counter. Play for a set amount of time. When the time is up, each child counts his counters to see who has collected the most.
Use a twelve or twenty-four sided dice to make the game more challenging. You can also have the students roll two dice and add the numbers together before they compare.
For students who have trouble comparing the dots on the six-sided die, provide counters so that they can count out the number they roll when comparing.
Use playing cards instead of dice and turn a game of Battle or War into a math game! Take out the face cards and instead of using counters, the student who puts down the higher cards can keep the cards.
Show your students the importance of learning to compare and order numbers by using the skill with a science unit. Here are some easy examples of ways to practice math skills while learning about other topics.
During your unit about pumpkins bring in several pumpkins to weigh and measure. Then write the weights and circumferences on separate index cards and place them in front of the corresponding pumpkins. Put the pumpkins in order from least to greatest by weight and then by circumference. Turn it into a math center by writing different pumpkin weights on pumpkin die cuts for the children to put in order. Children who are still learning the concept can order three pumpkins, while those who are more advanced can put four or five in order and use bigger numbers.
During a science unit about penguins, make a chart of the average heights of different types of penguins. For a whole class activity choose two types and have the children decide which is taller. Continue to practice comparing the heights of different types of penguins. Then give the children three types to put in order from tallest to shortest or shortest to tallest. Make it a game or center by giving pairs of students a copy of the height chart and cards with the different penguin types written on them. Have each child draw a card and then compare the two penguin types that were drawn. They can also draw three or four cards and work together to put the penguins in order. You can use a variation of this activity when studying about other types of animals too.
Do you have any other teaching ideas? Let us know in the comments!

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In a back-to-school themed mindset, eBay is running a 10% off coupon for select goods from select retailers. So what does that have to do with you, our fellow gamers? Well, when these random 10% off coupons show up they are often best used on rarely discounted and high-ticket items like the PlayStation VR headset, PlayStation 4 Pro, and PC graphics cards.
With VR continuing to spread adoption, the PlayStation VR core headset is seeing a $40 drop to $360 thanks to the aforementioned discount. Out of the flurry of hardware deals we're spotting at Newegg/eBay, this is our crowning pick given how rarely the virtual reality headset goes on sale.
Continuing on, you really can't go wrong with a $40 drop on the PlayStation 4 Pro. There was a Black Friday drop to $340 on Amazon -- a deal available for mere minutes -- but otherwise its $400 list price has not really been cracked in any significant way in 2017.
Beyond console equipment, the best deals here are on GPUs. Since the cryptocurrency mining craze returned in May of this year, video cards have been selling at inflated prices. A few of these cards are returning to more sane price levels at Newegg (which is also selling them through eBay).
The eBay coupon does not have a long life to it. All deals will run only through Tuesday, August 1 at 11:59pm Pacific. The coupon requires you to pay with PayPal at checkout as per standard operating procedure with eBay coupons. You can only use one code per PayPal account, so choose your discount wisely.

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A delicious, low-fat recipe for Vegan Dal Makhani, lentils in a buttery sauce with garam masala. Cashew cream adds smoothness without the dairy.
I am back after an unannounced — and unintentional — break, and I come bearing goodies.
But first, where was I? Well, right here, doing the things I mostly do. In the past, the two long breaks I have taken here at Holy Cow! have been for momentous reasons: one was the death of my beloved Lucy, the dog who turned me vegan. The other was the time Desi and I traveled to India to pick up our son, Jay. But this time, I have no such excuse. Instead, I was away for somewhat selfish reasons: I was taking some time for me.
For the seven years I’ve blogged here at Holy Cow!, I’ve been working full time, and running my home and this blog, and with Jay’s arrival a year and a half ago, things have gotten busier than ever. These past couple of months my already busy job placed even more demands on my time. As a result I was sleeping even less than the few — and way less than enough — hours I usually sleep. I realized I wasn’t eating on time, starving myself for hours, then eating anything in sight, and doing all those things I should not be doing.
So I decided to take my life and put some order back into it. I was going to eat on time, get back to exercising regularly, and make Me a bigger priority than I’ve allowed myself to be for the longest time: something we women are so often guilty of. I had to find the time to do this somewhere, so the blog ended up being the unintended casualty — for a few weeks.
Some of you missed me, and sent me lovely notes, and I am so grateful. To you, I apologize for the unannounced absence. I have more than 700 recipes in the archives, and I hoped there was enough to browse through — and cook, if you felt like it — until I return.
At times, when I started to feel guilty, I reminded myself of a bedtime story my mother would tell me. Of a king who wanted to please the gods, so he built a large urn outside the temple and ordered everyone in the kingdom to pour all the milk in their homes into it as an offering to the gods. Not even the children were to be fed until the urn was full. No one dared disobey the king, but no matter how much milk they poured into the urn, it just would not fill up.
Finally, at sunset, a woman walked into the temple with a small cup of milk. As the king’s guards, watching from the shadows, advanced to haul her to the king for disobeying his orders, the woman poured the cup of milk into the urn, and lo and behold, it filled to the brim and flowed over.
How did you do it, the surprised king asked the old woman. I fed the calf, my family, and myself, she replied. I made sure everyone was satisfied, and I brought what remained for the gods.
See, even the gods are happy when you take care of yourself first, my mom would whisper into my ear before I fell asleep.
But here’s what’s going to make you really happy: I also have for you today a pressure cooker giveaway from Kuhn Rikon.
Kuhn Rikon makes some of the best pressure cookers in the market, and as a veteran pressure cooker user who has used every kind there is, I have to say that this one, a 7-quart Duromatic that retails at $249, is the best I’ve ever used. I am so excited that a reader will now have a chance to own one.
One of the reasons I love my Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker is how precise it is: clear instructions take away any guesswork from pressure cooking, and the biggest bonus is that it is the least noisy cooker I’ve ever owned. It is also easily the handsomest one.
Now here’s how you can win this giveaway: share this post on social media (tag @kuhnrikoncorp and @holycowvegan) and leave me a comment here on this blog telling me why you love cooking with a pressure cooker or — if you haven’t ever used one — why you’d like to start now. I will announce a winner in a post early next week.
A couple of things: you have to live in the United States to enter (sorry, the manufacturers can only ship locally), and please do not leave anonymous comments because I need your name to enter you to win.
Dal Makhani is a delicious, sumptuous North Indian style dal made with spices and tomatoes. Eat with a bowl of hot rice and an Indian pickle.
Add the asafetida and ginger garlic paste and saute for a few seconds until fragrant.
Add the onions, saute until translucent but not browned, and add the tomatoes, cayenne, turmeric, coriander powder and garam masala. Saute for a couple of minutes. You can skip ahead a bit with ordinary cook times because all the flavors are going to cook together beautifully in the pressure cooker.
Add the kasoori methi, stir well, and add the washed udad dal and rajma. Add four cups of water.
Cover the pressure cooker with the lid according to instructions, bring up to pressure (in the Kuhn Rikon you will cook until both red lines are visible, in a Fagor, you want to wait until the little yellow button pops up), then reduce heat to maintain pressure and let the dal cook for 9 more minutes.
After 9 minutes turn off the heat and let the pressure release. I prefer to just wait for the cooker to release all the pressure, rather than force it to do so manually, which is an option.
Once all the pressure has been released and you've opened the pressure cooker, stir the dal, add some water if it's too thick, add salt to taste, and the cashew paste and vegan "butter." Stir well to mix.
I do one more thing to make this dal extra creamy-- I take about two to three cups of the dal and blend it in a blender to make a smooth paste. Always be careful while blending hot liquids and follow any instructions that came with your blender.
Now add the blended dal back to the pot with the rest of the dal and warm through. If you have a hand blender, lucky you. Run it in the dal for a few seconds to get a creamy consistency.
We started pressure cooking just a year or so ago with an entry level pressure cooker. It was a bit intimidating at first but we now cook all our beans from dry and I make all our stocks in there as well… And of course whenever your recipes call for it! Having a nicer and larger cooker would surely benefit us!
I’ve never used a pressure cooker. I remember my mother having one when I was young, but I think she always used it for meat, so I was never interested in having one. But my Indian friends have told me that every Indian family has a pressure cooker, and that they are essential for cooking beans and lentils, which taste so much better than the canned beans. And this recipe sounds so delicious (I love dal!) that I would love to try it, too!
A pressure cooker giveaway?!!! That’s is so cool. I would LOVE a pressure cooker. I’m just imagining all the time I could save not to mention all the yummy goodness I could make!
so glad you are back! have been wondering where you are – even mentioned missing you & your blog to a family member last night during a long phone conversation. thank you for giving your time to share thoughts and stories and recipes!!
I love all your recipes. Hurrah for you, taking time for yourself! I want a pressure cooker as I want to eat healthy. Being a vegan, proteins are in lentils & beans but I tend not to eat as it takes longer to cook, you have to presoak it. If only I could plan so much ahead! So, it ends up that I eat whatever I can cook fast but not getting enough protein. The only way to go is get a pressure cooker and viola, beans & lentils are cooked in 1/4 of the time and keeping in all the nutrition. No BPA to deal with and its a lot cheaper. A win, win.
So glad to have you back! And happy to hear that you’ve taken time for yourself, something we all need to do once in awhile. Looking forward to what you have in store for us!
Welcome back! Glad you are taking care of yourself. ??
I actually use my pressure cooker to can soups/stews and vegetables from the garden!
Hi, I use the recipes on your blog a lot (they are great!) and I would love this pressure cooker. I used pressure cookers all the time years ago when I worked in a macrobiotic deli, but I’ve never owned one, despite the enormous amount of beans and rice I consume, Right now I am using a slow cooker my sister gave me to cook my beans, which as I’m sure you know is not the most time or energy efficient method. If I win this pressure cooker I guarantee it will get a lot of use!
Unfortunately I’m not on Facebook or Twitter so I’m asking my girlfriend to repost on her FB account. I hope you will still consider me as a contestant.
I love using my pressure cooker! Cooking beans is so quick and easy.
I love that you post Indian recipes & I would love to win the pressure cooker because my husband is a daal lover! I tried to making channa daal yesterday without a pressure cooker & I hated it!! Even though he was nice enough to say it was good I knew what good daal tastes like. So a pressure cooker means the difference between good & bad daal for me!
Yay a for taking time for yourself! Thank you for posting recipes that I can take inspiration from because that’s my eternal struggle! What to cook?!?
I’m going to share this on Instagram!
I had a pressure cooker back in the 80″s. I stop using it cause the bell on top would make so much noise and you had to wait until food cooled down to open pot. Since I have become a vegetarian having a pressure cooker would assist me in getting my beans and other dishes (especially the one I get from you)done faster.
I am both glad that you’re back *and* that you took some time for yourself!
I have never cooked with a pressure cooker and have never owned one. This will sound silly, perhaps, but they always scared me a little as I imagined the cooker building up so much pressure that it would blow up on my stovetop! I cook ALOT and many people have told me how much I would love using a pressure cooker and how much time it would save. I would try it if I had one – and if it works as well as everyone says, I would write about it, too :-).
Thanks, as always, Vaishali, for your wonderful recipes and writing, and for Desi’s gorgeous photos.
Greetings from a Maryland suburb local! I received my Fagor pressure cooker as a wedding gift – going on 22 years now. I have dropped it and broken the secondary handle and replaced the gaskets a couple of times. I love my pressure cooker. It cooks up dal or risotto in a flash. It is essential in the winter for daily pots of bean soups. I just started cooking scotch cut oats in the pressure cooker too. I want to teach my daughter. It would be lovely to gift this to her! I don’t do any social media however.
I love your blog. I just shared this post on Pinterest. I put all your recipes on Pinterest. I was thrilled when I found your site, as I love to cook and I am a vegetarian. My N.J. location makes it so easy for me to find the not-so-common ingredients. I’m lucky to be in the area I live in.
So glad you got to regroup. I busied myself with your index of recipes available on your site.
I use a pressure cooker to cook my grains. I also use it for the small red Japanese Adzuki beans. These are beans that do not require soaking. These are also the beans used to make red bean ice cream.
I do have a question, if you please. Just recently I’ve been reading online about aquafaba. Have you tried it? Will you please and inform us what you can do with it?
Thanks again for the pressure cooker offer and the great, informative recipes and information.
Pressing Cookers allows the right texture to come out with my grains. As a fairly new Vegan your recipes inspire my to explore a variety of flavor’s.
I use pressure cooker for daals and legumes. Cannot imagine my life without it.
I thought I left a comment, but then my cat knocked over my mouse and my browser disappeared. So if this is a duplicate, please delete.
I love using a pressure cooker, because I find the food not only cooks faster, but it’s more flavorful and tender.
Daughter love to cook in pressure cooker, so makes me want to try it.
I have never used one but I want to so I can save time! I buy a lot of dried beans and eat a lot of rice!
Welcome back! Good to know that you have been nurturing yourself. Something that women frequently forget to do! We take care of everyone else and forget about us – so you go, girl! I would love to win a pressure cooker – I’ve never used one before, but as I want to eat a lot more beans and lentils for protein, it would be very handy. Whether I win or not, I will continue cooking your recipes – thank you for posting so many delicious alternatives to meat and dairy.
I love how easy they are and how good the food tastes!
I’ve never used a pressure cooker before since I’ve never grew up with one. But now that it is summer again, I am always trying to find ways to keep the heat from the kitchen on a low and a pressure cooker would cut down drastically on cooktime.
Love your blog. Love using pressure cooking as it so quick.
So happy to see a new post from you! I am glad you are taking the time to prioritizing yourself. I am trying to do it myself. I love and use my pressure cookers regularly, can’t imagine cooking Indian food without them.
Love pressure cookers for their versatility and I use them everyday and I need a new one so this is perfect. So glad you are back. Missed reading your posts and can we sub cashews for but free options for the dal makhani?
I’ve never used a pressure cooker, but I’d love to try using it for speeding up the process (and making it more automatic) of cooking things like potatoes and steaming greens. I’d also like to do more cooking of my own beans rather than using cans all the time, so I think this would help with that.
I have been trying to cook more again, and I know a lot of desi recipes use a pressure cooker. Not only do pressure cookers speed up cooking time (!!!), but they also keep more nutrition in the food cooked. I’d love to try one at last.
This recipe looks fantastic but I was wondering if I could slow cook this as I don’t have a pressure cooker. If so what adjustments would I need to make please.
Love this website – keep up the great work!
Hi Barry, you can certainly make this in a slow cooker, but you will have to start out with cooked or canned lentils and beans, because neither will cook fully in a slow cooker or turn mushy enough. You can get canned kidney beans, and cook the lentils on a stovetop. Follow all steps until the point where you add in the cooked dal and beans, and then put all of it in the slow cooker and slow cook on medium for four hours.
Thank you so much for the info, I’ll try it this week.

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It has come to be known recently that Yale University is a major investor in the group through which the formation of a virtual currency fund will be formed. It is being said that the $400 million might be raised by this group. Yale University, which happens to be the part of the prestigious Ivy league is playing an important role in the group that is investing for the cryptocurrency fund. It has been found that Yale is now experimenting with this sector through the means of this new fund. This decision by the Yale University may affect the perspective towards virtual currency positively.
It is the first time that the school has invested in this sector at such a humungous manner, however, it has been affecting the sector of virtual currency for a long time. However, lately, a huge amount of investment has been done by the prestigious institution in the sector of virtual currency. It might also give the opportunity to the different projects of Blockchain technology as well as those Initial Coin Offerings which seem promising. This decision by the Yale University can be considered wise because even though there are a lot of changes that have taken place in the value of the virtual currencies, there are a lot of entities in the market that have been benefitted from this sector. For example, the founder of BitMEX has become the youngest billionaire in the UK.
However, there is a lot that needs to be fixed regarding this sector. Regulations are still a major dilemma for this sector. The scams that take place in the sector are the evidence of the requirement for the better regulation. However, the investment of $30 billion from the Yale University may take the sector a long way. Not just in terms of the legitimacy that it would render to the field but also in terms of the developments that might take place within the sector with Yale as an investor as well as the changes in the perspective towards the field.


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The Arts Council has announced the deadline for applications under the 2015 Reel Art scheme. The deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, 16th October 2015 at 5pm.
Launched in 2008, Reel Art is designed to provide film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme. The scheme is operated in association with Filmbase and the Dublin International Film Festival, and will wholly support two films with grants of €70-€80,000 per project. Reel Art films will premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival Founded in 2003, the Dublin International Film Festival sets the agenda of the year with its programme of outstanding Irish and international film. in February 2017.
Film artists interested in applying for Reel Art are invited to attend an information session on the scheme on Tuesday 22nd September at 3pm in Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 will outline the purpose and priorities of the award and will answer questions on the scheme. Anyone interested in attending is required to register their interest by sending an email to reelart@filmbase.ie.
Updated guidelines for Reel Art 2015, together with application forms for the scheme are available for download from the website www.filmbase.ie/reelart as are details of previous Reel Art projects.
Projects selected in the 2014 Reel Art scheme included Meet Miss Moriarty, from director Claire Dix and Chile: The Art of Making Do from the Desperate Optimists.
Meet Miss Moriarty is a film about the remarkable and ground-breaking first lady of Irish ballet; and a bold exploration of the filmmaking process itself. Joan Denise Moriarty was an inspirational artist who overcame enormous odds in her day and someone who after her death is still causing controversy. Meet Miss Moriarty is also a film about how to make such a documentary.
Chile: The Art of Making Do is a poetic journey into the idea of the cinematic location through a compelling character in Irish social and political history, Ambrose O’Higgins. The compelling narrative of Ambrose O’Higgins underpins the documentary but is explored through the artistic filter of location and the creative processes entailed.


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Over the last two decades, Jason Boland and the Stragglers have independently sold more than half a million albums and packed iconic dancehalls, theaters, and other big rooms across the country. Since debuting in 1999 with the Lloyd Maines-produced Pearl Snaps, the band has matured without taming their refreshing irreverence. Led by Jason Boland, the Stragglers is made up of jangly honky-tonk aces including Grant Tracy on bass, drummer and background vocalist Brad Rice, and Nick Worley on fiddle, mandolin, and harmonies.
With their ninth studio record Hard Times are Relative, Boland and the Stragglers stack the smart, road-ready outlaw country longtime fans have come to expect alongside creative risks that flirt with punk and psychedelic sounds. The 10-song collection is a rare blend of instantly gratifying and rewarding of closer listens––a definitively Stragglers accomplishment. Praise for the past but acknowledgement of nostalgia’s limitations is a career-long theme for Boland, and one that this record continues to carry. Hard Times Are Relative was co-produced by the Stragglers, David Percefull, and Adam Odor. All songs were recorded live to tape and without the use of any computers––now a Stragglers’ hallmark.
The latest, tight incarnation of the Cody Canada-led group The Departed isn’t a reinvention of the group’s sound, or a reimagining of Canada’s musical perspective – it’s a reunion. As with any reunion, the passing years have provided the involved parties with new and unique perspectives, breathing vibrant excitement into their streamlined new environment.
Canada, Jeremy Plato, Chris Doege and Steve Littleton are reopening the doors to a sonic garage where sounds and stories some thought were gone for good are now being unleashed onto an eager public after a few years of fruitful – even risky -- artistic diversion. Being guided by raw emotion and nerves that are often unguarded, Canada hasn’t begun to pluck the opening notes to an increasing number of Cross Canadian Ragweed favorites without some reluctance or painful reminiscence, mind you. But the powerful nature of such visceral connections is what makes his stories stunning while rightfully placing him in a prominent class of modern songwriters occupied by the influential likes of Robert Earl Keen, Bruce and Charlie Robison, Todd Snider, Mike McClure and the men of Reckless Kelly, among only a strict few others.
To be clear, the men of the Departed are not the frat-house faves many of the latest generation of river-tubing popsters are. Ideals and experiences of a person enduring the sometimes-harsh realities of the real world demand space in a Departed concert.
With the chill of 2014’s winter thawing into the haziness of the spring and the Departed now having played as a powerful four-piece for several months following James’ amicable exit, Canada’s appreciation for the truly remarkable, intensely personal body of work he created as he fronted Ragweed is intact, and indeed, fresh with the passing of time and the healing of emotional wounds. Unsurprisingly, fans are exuberantly responding to the inclusion of classics such as “Alabama,” “Dimebag,” and “17” into set-lists for Departed shows. The refitted outfit is channeling the power chords and raw-bone ballads, which vaulted Canada into the status as Red Dirt’s biggest name for so long.
This is not a comeback. This isn’t a rebirth.
This is a rock and roll renewal only an artist with Canada’s strength of will and determined vision is capable of. He’s making great use of a rare chance few artists ever receive. He now knows what he only started to understand many years ago, and his words are all the more impactful as a result.


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Serge E. Przedborski, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized clinician-scientist in the neurobiology of disease, has been appointed the inaugural director of the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative (CTNI). His work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis exemplifies the potential of interdisciplinary, basic, and translational science to effect meaningful advances in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of neurologic disease.
As part of the P&S Strategic Plan, CTNI was established to integrate and coordinate CUMC’s research efforts related to the neurobiology of disease. CTNI promotes collaboration across laboratories, departments, and centers at CUMC for a better understanding of disorders of the nervous system and their treatment. Coupled with other neuroscience initiatives at Columbia, such as the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the new Institute for Genomic Medicine, CTNI will be part of a comprehensive, university-wide neuroscience enterprise.
A native of Belgium, Dr. Przedborski earned his medical and PhD degrees at Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and came to Columbia in 1989 as a movement disorders fellow. He joined the P&S faculty in 1991 and was promoted to professor with tenure in 2002. Currently, he is the Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology & Cell Biology), vice chair for research in the Department of Neurology, and co-director of Columbia’s Motor Neuron Center.
Jonathan Javitch, MD, PhD, the Lieber Professor of Experimental Therapeutics (in Psychiatry) and professor of pharmacology, and Carol Mason, PhD, professor of pathology & cell biology, neuroscience, and ophthalmic science (in ophthalmology) and the current president of the Society for Neuroscience, will serve as consulting directors of CTNI.
Dr. Przedborski succeeds Christopher Henderson, PhD, who served as the interim director of CTNI.

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At Annual Rajapruke Fair, Chiang mai, 1st-4th December 2009, the huge egg contest winner of this year became our BUSAKON FRESH EGGS.
The champion egg weight was 128 grams among the other 112 grams and 116 grams eggs we sent.
It was our pride winning this contest. From the superb care to our hens, our designed nutritious organic feed, our hens won the first prize.

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https://www.matrix.com/blog/8-ways-to-hydrate-hair-in-summer-heat How to Hydrate Hair In Summer Heat | Matrix It is so important to keep your hair hydrated through the hot months, to prevent the four deadly sins of summer hair: dry hair, brittle hair, dull hair and frizzy hair! The Matrix Artistic Directors share their hair care tips on how to hydrate hair and beat the heat all summer long.
It is so important to keep your hair hydrated through the hot months, to prevent the four deadly sins of summer hair: dry hair, brittle hair, dull hair and frizzy hair! The Matrix Artistic Directors share their hair care tips on how to hydrate hair and beat the heat all summer long.
1. Switch up your shampoo and conditioner.
Just as you switch out the clothes in your closet with a new season, it’s also a good time to reassess your shampoo and conditioner. If your summer activities are causing your hair to be thirstier than normal, check to see if your regular hair cleansing and conditioning duo is available in a richer formula for dry hair. Also, because you’re more active during the summer, you may be tempted to step up the frequency of your shampooing, which could lead to extra dryness. One solution is to cleanse your scalp with a cleansing conditioner between shampoos. These low-detergent hair products gently remove dirt and debris without stripping the natural oils your hair needs to stay hydrated. Finally, if you have fine hair and you avoid conditioning because it weighs your hair down, try one of the new glycerin conditioners for fine hair. You get all of the benefits of conditioner—softness, shine, manageability—without the heaviness.
2. Deep condition hair at home or get hair conditioning treatments in the salon.
Conditioners are no longer “one size fits all.” Nowadays, your stylist can recommend a formula that’s ideal for your hair type—whether it’s fine, damaged, coarse, prone to frizz, etc. What’s more, not only are there regular conditioners for all hair types, there are also hard-working, deep-penetrating conditioning formulas you can use at home that will supercharge the moisture level of your hair.
We recommend using a hair mask once a week to hydrate and nourish hair, especially if you’ve experienced hair damage in the past. The new Total Results Miracle Creator Hair Mask repairs damaged hair in 60 seconds! Learn more about the revolutionary formula and why users love this hair mask!
As if that wasn’t enough, advanced in-salon hair treatments will transform your dry hair—sometimes in less than 20 minutes—and the benefits will last for months.
3. Refresh hair with hair mist throughout the day.
4. Prep hair properly before blow drying.
Blow dryers are among the greatest gifts to humankind—they smooth and shape hair instantly, leaving it looking polished and shiny. Blow dryers can do the job, and do it beautifully, but they’re even more effective when you prep your hair with the right styling products before you blow dry! A moisturizing hair volumizer if your hair is fine; a healing hair lotion if it’s damaged; a rich blow-dry cream if it’s thick or coarse—all of these formulas will prevent your blow dryer from stealing your hair’s precious moisture. Another must? A heat protection product that will shield your hair against drying heat damage. Remember, cocktails aren’t just for pool parties—you can also “cocktail” several hair styling products together before blow-drying to create the perfect hair recipe for your hair type.
Of course, it’s also a nice idea to skip heat styling altogether in the summer, and go the heatless hairstyle route. It’s a cooler way to start the day, it allows your hair to retain its natural moisture and it’s good for the environment to stow your blow dryers and hair irons from time to time. Hairstyles like braids, messy buns, hair twists and loose waves are totally on-trend, and easy to achieve without hot tools. New formulations of “no blow dry” creams can help. These products provide the soft hold and frizz control that support your heatless hairstyles and allow you to keep your blow dryer in the drawer.
6. Treat hair at night.
7. Dial down hair color.
Summer may not be the best time to try new hair color shades that require massive amounts of bleaching and can further dry strands. Instead, think about low-ammonia, color-enhanced hair glossing treatments that add moisture as they deposit color. If your hair is already heavily colored, be sure you’re using shampoos and conditioners designed to treat color with care. And cover up! Spending lots of time in the sun can bake your hair color, so keep strands under wraps with scarves and hats, especially during peak, midday sun hours.
8. Use hair protection in the pool.


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Are you the un-organized type? Are you always finding math homework in your English notebook? Organization is the key to success in middle school. Read this article on how to stay organized.
Buy a good book bag or tote. Don't get book bags that fall apart easily. Get a book bag that has enough zippers and compartments so that everything has a place, but not so many compartments that you're constantly looking for things. It's better to get a backpack if you will be carrying a lot of heavy books or binders, because the sling bags can ruin your shoulders. Recommendations for carry weight is 10% of your total weight.If your school allows it, it's a good idea to have a medium sized book bag or tote to carry around class to class also, though some schools don't allow any bags, many will say no backpacks but totes or book bags are fine. This really helps as you will not have to carry around a huge load of books, as most will fit in your bag.
Check each teacher's supply list to make sure you have everything you need. Have your parents or guardians get everything on the lists so you're not the last student to have supplies. At the very least, you should have notebook paper, pencils, and folders for each class. Remember, you will be changing classes and taking your things with you to your next class so there is no need to purchase multiple packs of things like colored pencils or highlighters.
Buy, make, or reuse a pencil case. In the pencil case put things in like pencils, pens, erasers, sticky notes, etc.
Keep your planner with you. With your planner, your whole homework schedule and after school activities can be organized. Write things in it like homework, events, meetings, etc.
Make sure everything has a place and stays in it! Math papers don't belong in your English notebook or your pocket. Be consistent. Keep papers in their corresponding notebook at all times. It will make things so much easier. You won't have to be worried on the way home about which binder something is in (and you forgot one of your binders). Many schools or teachers will require you to have a binder for their class and even schedule "notebook checks" where they make sure that you have all your papers in the right places in your binder.
Try setting up a schedule in the morning that will help you with staying organized. A sample schedule might be: Wake up and shower at 6:00, get dressed at 6:20, eat breakfast at 6:45, do your hair and makeup at 7:00, and leave at 7:15. It also helps to pack everything you can the night before, like putting all your homework and books in your bag, so all you have to add is your lunch. With the schedule, make sure you allow extra time in case something goes wrong (ex: you wake up late and don't have time to do something).When you have LOADS of homework: Take a sheet of paper, and write down all the subjects you have, then write the time you think you will need for each subject. Then try to put that time for homework in your weekly schedule. With the right schedule, you will become the responsible person that you should be!
Always have backup supplies! You want to have backup supplies just in case you lose any of it, or you forget it somewhere. Make sure to have a couple of extra packs of paper and pens/pencils in your locker.
At home, set up a drawer or area in your room for extra school supplies. This really helps as you know where everything you're not using is. It is also a good idea if you plan to buy bulk packs of things, which is very cheap, but can be hard to keep track of. If you have a "School Supply Drawer", you will always have a place to put extras, and know where those things are when you eventually need them.
Only buy the types of supplies you need. If you are in 8th grade, you probably won't need to buy lots of glue sticks and crayons, while a 5th grader won't need a graphing calculator. If you only buy what's on your supply list, and anything else you KNOW that you will use, you'll have a lot less junk to keep track of.
Label everything, and label it correctly, so you know where everything is. Labeling your notebooks and folders makes them easier to find. If you can make the folder and notebook for a class the same color, that helps too.
If you like to draw or make up stories in your free time or while waiting for the bus, keep an "extra folder" for all your papers.
If you have teachers that often give you big assignments, keep a spot in your notebook for keeping up with all the info and supplies for that project so it won't be mixed in with daily work.
Keep hole punch that goes in your binder so any papers your teacher hands you, you can put them in your binder (if you keep a binder).
Do not shove all papers into your backpack; this will make a mess and you will not be able to find anything you need! All of your papers will also get crumpled and ripped, and you don't want to hand them in like that!
Make sure to pay attention. If you do not pay attention and one of your teachers calls on you, how will you know the right answer? You could use your study guide if you have one and know where it is.
If your school has lockers, consider buying a locker organizer. Otherwise, do your best to divide it into several sections. Example: One for textbooks, one for notebooks, one for binders, and another for a backpack.
Keep a magnetic pencil holder and a whiteboard on your locker door. The magnetic pencil holder is for spare pens, pencils, highlighters, erasers, and supplies. The whiteboard is where you will write your assignments, classes, and memos on.
Make color-coded study schedules so that you get to review everything you need to.
I'm starting middle school next year and I am really nervous. Should I have different folders for every subject, or stash things in my binder so I have time to get to my next class? Should I also have labeled notebooks or not?
Keep a folder for each subject and label them with your name and the class. You can either use a notebook for each class, or put everything into one or two binders with dividers between subjects. And don't worry! Having multiple classes will feel natural before you know it.
What if we don't have a locker?
Spend a few minutes organizing your backpack every time you get home from school, before you forget. Only bring the supplies you will be using that day, or your backpack will be messy and way too heavy.
I'm so worried I'm going to make a fool of myself on the first day and not have anything and drop things. What can I do?
Don't worry -- everyone always drops things. Middle school is a lot better than it seems. Just keep your binder, notebook and pencil on the first day, and try to make nice friends.
Will people make fun of me if I'm really organized?
Anything is possible. If people do make fun of you, it's probably because they're envious of your organization or because they don't value being organized. Either way, you can ignore them.
What if we have to have multiple binders?
Then keep them individually organized. Put classwork, paper, homework and graded work all in different sections in each binder.
I just started seventh grade at a new school. How do I survive?
Just take things one day or subject at a time. Make friends, find activities you enjoy and be prepared and organized.
I'm starting middle school in three months. How can I stay organized at home and at school? Do I really need a locker organizer?
Locker organizers are usually annoying and get in the way of everything. Try to keep everything organized in folders and binders. Just label the folders and have the subject written on each folder.
What if our lockers are really small and narrow and our things don't really fit or don't fit at all?
They will fit, even though the lockers are narrow and small.
Schedule a time when you get to do all of your homework. For example: relax for a half hour or so (play Xbox or text, grab a snack) then have accessible any papers to do your homework. For many, doing the hardest to easiest helps so you can get the hard stuff out of the way first.
Refrain from electronic distractions. Focus on "Is all my homework done?", or "Do I need anything extra today?"
Begin using a planner at the start of the year. During the first week of school, jot down important dates, including school days with no classes (holidays, teacher waiver days, vacation breaks).
If you have after-school activities that might conflict with a homework schedule, plan around them by using a dry-erase board to write down all of your obligations for practices, volunteering, etc.
Keep a divider for all subjects. Keep all handouts and notes behind this.
Ask your teacher(s) for help. Chances are there is at least one other student wondering the same thing but too shy/afraid to ask. If the teacher sees that you're usually a well prepared student, they'll give you a hand.
Don’t put personal items in your binder. Besides the potential for being distracting to you or others, it is visual clutter.
Stay organized from the start of the school year; ask all your teachers how to stay organized for their classes.
When developing a new system, try it for 2 months to know if it works well for you, for example, use a locker shelf to separate morning from afternoon supplies.
Keep a homework folder for all your homework. Keep sticky notes in it for labeling and keeping the homework separate.
Have a color binder for each subject.
If you have to share locker's try to get along with that person and help them be organized too!
Color coding your supplies (binders, journals, folders, etc.) will be helpful if you are rushing in between classes.
An accordion file is very useful as a planner and a place to put your homework.
If your school doesn't give out a school supplies list or your teachers don't give it to you until the 1st week of school then make a list of supplies of the general things like binders and search those things up in different stores and see how much everything cost and then you will have an idea how much it's going to cost.
Don't share your locker combination not even your best friend because then they might take things that you need or tell others.
If you have a binder, then use binder dividers and put folders there for homework and other things that your teachers gave to you in your classes.
Color code your subjects. For example, you can have red for math, blue for English, green for science, purple for history, orange for foreign language, yellow for band, pink for art, white for health, gray for government/civics, light green for economics, etc.
Always make sure to keep valuables with you.
If you bring money to school, keep it in a safe place, like a wallet or purse. NOT in your pocket.
Keep your locker combination private. If your school requires it, they have a form you enter your locker number and combination code on.
Have extra sharpened pencils on hand, as well as a refillable water bottle.
If and when people start and keep asking you for supplies, simply tell them no, that you need them in a nice way. Something along the lines of, "I'd be happy to loan ____________ to you, but it's bad practice for me because then I have to do without. Please ask the counselor or teacher.
Always do your homework on the day it is assigned. This helps you because if there is something that comes up, you have already started.
Never leave cell phones turned on in your locker. If it goes off, and a teacher happens to walk by, it can be confiscated or misconstrued by the authorities.
Checking with the school or looking on the school's website is a good place to start. Many times teachers will ask that you have additional supplies necessary for their classes.
To be organized in middle school, make sure your backpack has enough space for all of your books, binders, and other school supplies. Make sure you have a separate folder or binder for each of your classes, which will make it easier to organize the handouts you're given in class. Additionally, get a pencil case or a pencil pouch to organize all of your loose items, so they aren't floating around in the bottom of your backpack. To be an organized student, get a planner and comit to writing everything down in it. When your teacher assigns you homework, announces there will be a test, or mentions an activity, add it to your planner on the date it's due so you can keep track of all of your responsibilities. Then, cross things off of your planner as you do them, so you know what you still have left to do. For more tips, like how to organize your locker in middle school, read on!
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Bush Graziano Rice & Platter, P.A., creates solutions for our clients every day. If you are facing a challenging legal issue, you can rely on our experienced legal team to seriously represent your interests with vigor and passion.
Our Tampa law firm has an established record of success in complicated areas of law ranging from medical malpractice and product liability defense to hospital and extra-contractual liability. We also represent clients in intellectual property, environmental law and family law matters and have extensive appellate practice experience.
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At the Veritiv Paper Show in Chicago last autumn, design director Pooja Vukosavich was a keynote speaker on the topic “Paper Persona”. Her outfit draw just as much attention as the speech itself.
“I knew instantly that words alone couldn’t convey my ideas, so I decided to make my metallic paper jacket. The Midwest can be a little traditional, but this flamboyant fusion style, where metallic paper meets apparel, that’s very much me.
“The project took almost two months. I spent the first several weeks zeroing in on the garment design. Then I tried different origami and paper lantern-making techniques and experimented with different paper weights before settling on the fan folding technique. Over the next six weeks, I made scores of pleated parts. The final push, like any runway fashion show, was a non-stop 72-hour marathon. From Saturday morning to Sunday night, I hot-glued all the pleated fans to a handmade muslin base.
“The whole process was so meditative, I was lost in time. My husband asked why I had a smile on my face the whole time – that never happens when I’m working on my computer!
“I’ve always been interested in creating things with my hands. In art school I learned hand typesetting, plate making and pottery before choosing a major. Today, as work becomes more digital, it’s good to get back to creating things with our hands.

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Mechanical properties and microstructure of model lead-free joints for electronics made with use of nanopowders.
Chemické listy. Roč. 106, SI (2012), s390-s392. ISSN 0009-2770.
In this work, Ag nanopowders were prepared as potential low-toxic constituens of novel solders by a chemical wet synthesis with the aim to study the effect of melting temperature depression and to evaluate the mechanical properties of sintered layers prepared in various annealing regimes.

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Students and coaches from coastal communities and landlocked states recently rallied together at the Regional Blue Heron Bowl in Wilmington, NC around the theme of marine renewable energy: Blue Energy – Powering the Planet with our Ocean.
What makes this team unique? The Dobyns-Bennett team is made up of four young ladies- Elizabeth Batts, Lilly Kramer and Allison and Jamie Cahill. These ladies set a great example of the importance of equipping girls in STEAM and encouraging pursuit of these careers to develop a diverse workforce.
Competing against North Carolina’s top performing high schools in math and science, Dobyns-Bennett finished in the top 5 at the Regional Competition. In addition, the coaches and volunteers at the event awarded the team with the “Sportsmanship Award” for their positive enthusiasm throughout the event. Team captain, Elizabeth Batts, shared “working together and applying the strengths of each team member allowed us to have fun while competing. The experience was amazing and the exposure to The University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Marine Science Center is definitely something we will remember.” The team agrees that they are all looking forward to competing again next year.
Dobyns-Bennett’s interest in ocean science goes beyond the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. In January, the school launched its inaugural capstone course with a focus on ocean processes. Through a partnership with Eastman and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, students are challenged to apply cross-disciplinary learnings to real world issues and problems. By interacting with some of the world’s top ocean scientists on active research projects, students are exposed to unique experiences that will give them a competitive advantage while continuing their education and entering the workforce.
Exposure to a capstone course in ocean processes is a unique experience for students and Dobyns-Bennett is one of only a few select high school in the United States offering such a program. Expanding curriculum in the areas of STEAM and increasing a problem-based approach to learning compliments the school’s ongoing plans to introduce a new science and technology center, also known as DB 2.0.
Eastman is a global advanced materials and specialty additives company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With a portfolio of specialty businesses, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. Its market-driven approaches take advantage of world-class technology platforms and leading positions in attractive end-markets such as transportation, building and construction and consumables. Eastman focuses on creating consistent, superior value for all stakeholders. As a globally diverse company, Eastman serves customers in more than 100 countries and had 2016 revenues of approximately $9.0 billion. The company is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA and employs approximately 14,000 people around the world. For more information, visit www.eastman.com.
Visit http://responsibility.eastman.com/ to learn more about Eastman’s Corporate Responsibility efforts.
The NOSB encompasses numerous scientific disciplines and encourages an increased understanding of the science needed to sustain strong communities, including improving community awareness; addressing erosion and increasing coastal populations and development; restoring coastlines; protecting estuarine ecosystems and services; and improving coastal disaster projection, preparedness, and response. The competition tests students’ knowledge of ocean-related topics, which include cross-disciplines of biology, chemistry, policy, physics, and geology. The NOSB is an interdisciplinary ocean science education program of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership based in Washington, D.C.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the world's leading, independent non-profit organization dedicated to ocean research, exploration, and education. Scientists and engineers push the boundaries of knowledge about the ocean to reveal its impacts on our planet and our lives. WHOI’s hard-won experience at sea, innovative technology, and commitment to research and education make the institution a reliable source of valuable knowledge about the ocean for scientists, decision-makers, and the public.


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Evan Scully headed to the fashion capital of the world to run the 19th running of the Milan marathon on Sunday morning.
When Linda Fahy refuses to go on a cycle she has a race in mind and so she took part in her first race since the Trim 10 mile 9 weeks ago and placed 7th overall and glowing as first lady at the Kilbride National School 10k on Sunday morning recording a good time of 42.41.
Keith Wickham put in a good performance at the Maynooth 10k road race held on Sunday morning passing through the town’s famous landmarks where he placed 6th overall in a time of 39.49.

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On the second Sunday in May, moms across the country are deservedly showered with attention on Mother’s Day. Unfortunately, while most moms are being treated to breakfast in bed or flower deliveries, tens of thousands of women spend their Mother’s Day living in shelters due to homelessness or domestic violence.
As a way to show love and appreciation to mothers this Mother’s Day, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® Pasadena recently hosted its Movers for Moms® collection drive to provide critical gifts to local women staying in community shelters this spring.
This year, the Pasadena moving company worked with local businesses such as Embassy Suites by Hilton Arcadia – Pasadena area to collect essential and comfort items. More than 1500 donations were collected and delivered to Elizabeth House.
Elizabeth House exists to provide shelter, hope and support to homeless pregnant women and their children by addressing their physical, emotional, spiritual, and economic needs in a nurturing atmosphere. They are committed to ending the cycle of homelessness and abuse in women and children through comprehensive case management, counseling, educational classes, prenatal care, and resources throughout pregnancy and beyond.
This spring marked the 10th anniversary of Movers for Moms®. Since its introduction, the program has expanded nationally to all 39 states and more than 300 franchises. Last year was the program’s most successful year to-date, with more than 285,000 items collected for donation to hundreds of shelters across the country. This year, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK®’s goal was to collect 350,000 items for moms in need across the country.
Follow Movers for Moms® online at www.twomenandatruck.com/moversformoms, www.facebook.com/MoversforMoms, or@MoversforMoms for more information.


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NewsCred is the global leader in enterprise content marketing. We offer a three-prong solution across 1) best-in-class technology, 2) the largest and most diverse content offerings, and 3) strategic professional services, rooted in the expertise we've gained as the unrivaled market leader over the past 10+ years. We deliver this complete solution through a proven, repeatable methodology that ensures positive business outcomes for the world's leading brands.
You will play an active role as the design leader on a cross-functional product team and will lead the vision for the user experience. You will be involved in defining product strategy, conduct research, and will develop delightful and impactful solutions for our users.
Collaborate with and support PMs and engineers throughout the product development life-cycle.
Own the design process from the early stages of discovery to designing high fidelity mocks, to launch.
You will contribute to the evolution of our design system, and the visual language of our brand. Exceptional attention to visual hierarchy, typographic detail, and scalable solutions are expected.
You will be mindful and deliberate when designing experiences, from the overarching user flow to refining small details in UI. You will ensure a cohesive experience across our platform.
You will elevate other designers by teaching through your processes and will seek opportunities to evolve the way we work together.
Strong communication skills that help set up frameworks and brainstorm initial design concepts. You also have the ability to mentor others to deliver work and make strategy come to life.
The ability to create beautiful high-fidelity mockups of your designs using Sketch.
The ability to create prototypes using Invision or similar tools.
Please attach your portfolio in the cover letter section below or provide links in your resume. Applications without portfolios will not be reviewed.
Our culture, which is the most important thing we offer: A place to do your best work and a chance for your voice to be heard in a democratic environment as we shape a high-growth industry. This is your company.
Great benefits, including medical, vision, and dental, a 401k match, and a generous vacation policy.
Come see why our culture has won numerous awards, including Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Workplaces and a spot on the 10 Best Workplaces in Advertising + Marketing for the second year in a row!

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The SnowEx17 Boise State University Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) Point Cloud, Version 1 data set is now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).
This data set contains terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) LiDAR point cloud data collected as part of the 2017 SnowEx campaign in Grand Mesa, Colorado between 26 September 2016 and 25 February 2017. Data were collected during snow-off (September 2016) and snow-on (February 2017) conditions at both open and forested locations. Multiple scans were conducted at each site and registered together using common targets. Each point contains X, Y, and Z coordinates (Easting, Northing, and Elevation), as well as intensity (i). These data can be used to determine snow depth and explore the interactions between snow and vegetation.
If you have questions, please contact the User Services Office at nsidc at nsidc.org <mailto:nsidc at nsidc.org>.

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j2 Global Communications provides a variety of business-critical communications and messaging services through its global communications/telephony/messaging network. This sector (Services/Communications Services: SCS) has seen a steady flow of institutional money and this has been reflected in the nice run up in the JCOM stock that began in the beginning of July 2005. Solid company fundaments and a sector leader also prove to be attractive here.
This morning JCOM opened nearly 1.5% lower to 23.14. This is just above the support level outlined below and what I like to refer to as an "injection point". The injection point is the point where the stock price touches a critical support level. A stop loss is placed immediately and directly under this injection point because of the enormous selling pressure it would be needed to move the stock another percent or two lower. This of course creates a low risk (high reward) entry point, aka an injection point.
My hopes are to buy on this point and wait for a quick bounce back to the 50Day SMA. Looking at the Full STO and MACD you can see the stock is heavily oversold as of late thus setting up a good chance for a strong bounce. The only thing I would like to warn about here is to watch for "crawling along" or repeated bumping of minor or major trend lines. Be prepared to see such trend lines broken like this broken. This is a technical analysis rule! Notice the first three red arrows I have pointed out on the graph and how the bounce is very definitive. No crawling along or repeated bumping there. If the stock is once again to bounce here, then I would like to see it happen this week. If not, then my stop is set just below the indicated trend line. A breach of this line could send the stock tumbling to test the mid-February lows (19.93).
As mentioned above, I do not like to see a stock "bounce" along support lines. My stop is only 15 cents under the price that JCOM closed today. There was significant volume to the downside today and I will be surprised if JCOM manages to hold. The stock did not react (bounce) as expected and the market has given signs to me that the bearish sentiment here will continue. Please set your stop loss orders and look for other opportunities should JCOM fail to hold support here. The market as a whole had a failed rally today. I wait now to see if JCOM bounces tomorrow or else I will probably be stopped out very early in the day.
This is a good example of how I do not try to MAKE a trade work, but rather analyze the signals that market is giving me and make my decisions based on that. Do not try to force a trade to work, but rather cut your losses (only 1%-2%) and move on to find better opportunities. Half the battle is making money, the other half is not losing it.
On a side note, 22Dollars will be on vacation this week. We are headed to the City of Lights (Las Vegas) with some close friends to spend a week at the Mirage. We are looking forward to it and hopefully the casino is as generous to me as the market (but probably not ;-) Take care.
Well there is the bounce I was looking for :-) I recently returned home from Fabulous Las Vegas to a pleasant "surprise". Ok, so maybe it wasn't that much of a surprise to see JCOM bounce nicely here. My trip, for those of you interested, was great. It is tough not to have a good time in that city of lights and to come home and find that you just made back the money you lost there and then some is a good feeling too. I guess what I learned from this trip was that I am better off "gambling" on stocks over a little ball landing on red.
Thanks for update Chad. You were right on again.


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This week I visited Classy Hippie Tea Company in Sacramento, California. One of the things that I love about working with Lady Baker's Tea Trolley is Katherine's openness to learning with and from anyone and everyone in the tea industry. If there is someone doing something interesting, Katherine always encourages all of us on the team to explore it and see what we can learn. My philosophy has always been that the better each of us does as individuals, and the more we support our fellow tea entrepreneurs in achieving their goals, the better the entire tea industry will be as a result. This is a philosophy that I believe Katherine shares with me.
I share all of that as background t0 this post because I am currently on the road learning and exploring. In addition to my passion for marketing and tea, I also have a deep love of growing and designing with flowers. This year I have decided to take some time away from my own farming and design work to travel and work with other flower farmers and designers around the world. I began my flower journey at the end of May, so it is only just getting started, but of wherever I land to explore the world of flowers I inevitably end up also connecting with my fellow tea lovers.
This month I am in Sacramento, California. For those of you who do not know, Sacramento is the capitol of California. It is about an hour and a half from San Francisco and is a very flat river valley city that boasts more trees than any other city in the world other than Paris. I am not sure where that statistic comes from, but coming from the cool climes of Prince Edward Island I have to say that I am really appreciating the tree-lined streets and all the shade they provide given that the first week I spent in Sacramento the temperature was around 40 degrees Celsius.
One of the first things I did after arriving in Sacramento was to head over to The Tea Cozy in search of some premium quality loose leaf tea to enjoy while I am here. The Tea Cozy is my go-to place in the city for great tea. Unfortunately, at this point The Tea Cozy is a retail location only, so when I want to sit down for a cuppa I have to go elsewhere.
In my online quest to find a good spot to enjoy afternoon tea in Sacramento I kept coming across listings for Classy Hippie Tea Company. The company was started by Leo Hickman -- a professional tea sommelier, biomedical engineer, post 9/11 soldier, world traveler and marathoner originally from Philadelphia. Leo is also a budding herbalist who has a passion for helping people achieve their best level of physical, mental and spiritual health through sharing his knowledge about the healing properties of herbal remedies. Classy Hippie Tea Company is located just down the street from UC Davis Medical Centre in The Grange Performing Arts Centre. The Grange is also home to the Green Valley Theatre Company, which puts on regular performances, and if you visit for tea you may well be serenaded by one of the many musicians in the building who also offer piano and voice lessons throughout the day.
I stopped by to meet Leo and enjoy a cup of tea on a sunny Tuesday afternoon. Leo gave me a warm welcome at the door and gave me a tour of the theatre, tea rooms, and even took me outside to check out the herb garden he has started to grow ingredients that he can add to his teas.
After our tour Leo and I sat down for a chat about tea, community, philanthropy and joy. I asked Leo to prepare one of his favourite teas for me to try. He chose Wuyi Yancha or Rock tea. Rock tea is a heavily oxidized dark oolong tea grown only in the protected Wuyi Mountains in China's Fujian Province. According to legend, the mother of a Ming Dynasty emperor was cured of an illness by a certain tea, and the emperor sent great red robes to clothe the bushes that the tea had been plucked from. Six of these original bushes reportedly still survive today and are highly venerated. The plants grow out of the rocky cliffs, which gives the tea leaves a distinct mineral flavour characterized by the particular type of rocks surrounding the plant when it is growing. Wuyi Yancha is processed using traditional processing techniques. It is considered one of China's top ten teas, and is often reserved for honoured guests. I enjoyed the bright colour of the liquor, the smooth, buttery flavour, and found the sweet mineral aftertaste refreshing.
While we sipped our tea Leo shared a little more about his vision for his company. Leo serves "afternoon tea" at 7pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, as well as a vegan brunch the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month from 10am-2pm. Each tea has a theme. Tuesday's theme is tea and chocolate. Wednesday's is a communi-tea meditation which is a beginners guide to meditation followed by an open conversation intended to build community. On Thursday Leo hosts a tea and food pairing event with a guest chef. As I talked with Leo it quickly became clear that building community is one of the main goals of Classy Hippie Tea Company. He also has a membership-based group that takes part in tea events, theatre performances and any other event that Leo hosts. Part of the membership fee goes to humanitarian organizations supporting women's rights, disaster relief and other community initiatives both in the Sacramento area and elsewhere.
At the end of the day Leo's goal is to build community by providing a space where people can gather to rest, learn, share, rejuvenate and meet others over a cup of tea. I had a wonderful afternoon at Classy Hippie Tea Company, and encourage you to reserve a spot at one of his upcoming events if you find yourself in the Sacramento area. To learn more about Classy Hippie Tea Company and sign up for a tea event visit www.classyhippieteaco.com.
This blog post about Classy Hippie Tea Company was written by our Social Media Marketing Manager Ariana Salvo. Ariana has been a tea lover since she can remember, and has been enjoying Lady Baker's Tea Trolley teas since 2006 -- Katherine's first year of operations on Prince Edward Island. Ariana manages and helps us to implement our marketing strategy both on and offline. When she is not selling our tea she is busy working on her photography, growing flowers and designing floral arrangements, and hosting social media marketing workshops for businesses and organizations.


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In Berlin you travel the world by remaining in the same place.
Berlin is known for its many different cultures. People from around the world live in Berlin and have one thing in common: they bring their food with them.
Berlin is not only the German capital but also the food capital. Hundreds of restaurants offer Berliners and visitors the opportunity to experience the world in a culinary way. Pop-up restaurants, food markets and street food are just some of the many ways to taste the different cultures Berlin has to offer.
Visit Street Food Thursday in the “Markthalle Neun” in Kreuzberg and let yourself be pampered by delicacies from around the world, or enjoy what is probably the best döner in the world in Kreuzberg or Neukölln.
Start with a French breakfast, some sushi for lunch and an exclusive dinner in one of the many Michelin-star restaurants the city has to offer.
Pizza, pasta, sushi, French, Chinese, American, Korean, Australian, Russian, Thai and so on. In Berlin you travel the world by remaining in the same place.
Talk to us and we will give you the best advice and show you the best restaurant or culinary insiders of the city.
Taste the classic Berliner Currywurst! Available here at Hotel Adlon Kempinski.


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Dear Online Collective, Please post your thoughts in the comments section of this post about furture pujas. Should we have a password aunthentication for entering Pujas? How should we verify yogi identities (reference system) etc.
JSM!! Really extraordinary ten days. All of us really enjoyed the wonderful vibrations.
Kudos to the team for comming up with such a wonderful program.
Very good vibrations felt. Experienced the oneness with the Divine. Such online pujas should continue and be open to all without password or secured line is the humble opinion of this yogini.
Happy Vijaya Dasami and Happy Navaratri to all...I enjoyed the navaratri puja as I enjoyed it in my home town back in India. I got the tears in my eyes yesterday at the time of the aarti with joy.
Thank you very much for the team behind this.
it is very good puja thanks!
It was a great experience the whole navaratri nights and we had wonderful vibrations.
It was my first time attending the navaratri pujas and that too online, I felt sitting in a collectivity and enjoying all the time.
We appreciate this great work from the online team who conducted this great event and we feel we have many more events like this.
meditation with shri mataji's talk and harathi is good.Everythis is good,whatever we have right now is good.
Thank you very much for online meditations. In todays online Vijaya Dhashmi celebration, I felt missing very much, song swagat-aagat, Shri Ganesha Atharvashirsha and Mother's arti (sabko dhuva dena).
Jai Shri Mataji! Thank-you so much for arranging such wonderful events. We would like to have such collective Pooja's on regular basis. There was a big difference to have Pooja at the level of World collective-Great! Singing Bhajans also added to Vibrations.
Overall it is a big event for us where collectivity is small.
The online Navaratri meditations/celebrations were truly blissful and rewarding.We should have more of such sessions in near future.It is a very great step using Vishnumaya's power.We can have password protection,or ask people some Sahaj knowledge quiz,or ask them for prior registration,or transfer people from other Sahaja groups like USaYogis etc. for authorization purposes.
Keep the awesome work up!!
It would be more safe if the country or city coordinator allows by an autorization the one who wants to partipate in the web meditation.
May be it will be a good system.


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While you are gathering your initial reverse mortgage information, you will no doubt have a question or two pop into your head that might not be addressed or easily found online. Over the years, we have noticed that after someone begins to learn basic reverse mortgage information, then all the little “what if” questions start to come to mind. We invite you to ask your reverse mortgage questions here and you will receive a prompt and personal response shortly.
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Dr. Abhay Patil, research engineer in the Turbo Lab, has received a temporary patent for inventing a new energy conversion device.
The invention, “High Energy Density Turbomachines,” has a unique design and provides explicit advantages in terms of performance and reliability. It has a potential to be retrofitted to current multistage electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) deployed for oil and gas production, conventional surface pumps, compressors and turbines. The technology allows turbomachines to operate at elevated speeds while reducing internally generated destructive forces.
Patil completed his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University in 2013 under the direction of Dr. Gerald Morrison, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering. He co-invented the first patent related to thrust reduction in multistage ESPs while working at Baker Hughes. Here at the Turbo Lab, he is leading and working on various projects involving current and new technology initiatives applied to ESPs, turbopumps, multiphase flow meters and process lubricated bearings. His main research thrust is in the field of fluid mechanics, multiphase flow and rotating machinery.
Dr. Patil is working with The TEES Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Office, who has initiated the process to secure a temporary patent based on numerical modeling results. The patent includes more than a year and a half of groundwork. The key to such an accomplishment is to “follow your passion and remain focused,” Patil said.
Collaborators on the project include Turbo Lab faculty members Drs. Gerald Morrison, Adolfo Delgado, and Dr. Luis San Andrés.
“The invention is a complete technology, which can bridge some of the critical gaps and create new opportunities for oil and gas business,” Patil said.
There is ongoing communication to form a new start-up based on the invention, and a Houston-based artificial lift supplier has expressed interest in funding it. Future plans include manufacturing and testing to improve confidence.
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Turbomachinery Laboratory makes a vital impact on turbomachinery and related industries through research, education and professional workforce development.
The invention is a complete technology, which can bridge some of the critical gaps and create new opportunities for oil and gas business.