Pam I Am: 2011 Scrapbooking

As mentioned, I just scrapbook random pictures from throughout the year whenever I feel like it! I didn't start scrapbooking until Van was born, but I got addicted fast!?

I actually made a template for the below phone pictures to print off like little polaroids, so it will be easier to just do this throughout the year a few times with all the phone pictures that seem to have inevitably taken over life! I take so many more now that I've joined the fun of Instagram. :) Really, if you haven't joined, do it! It's a super fun and easy way to be in touch with family members and friends throughout the day and let them know what you're doing and see what they're doing too!?

This layout with Derick journaling might be my favourite. :)?

Here's what I do with our Christmas cards...cut them up and smush them all together for a few layouts at the end of the year. Fun to look back and see friends and family in one place in our family yearbook.?

That's it...keep in mind, it took me a year's worth of time to scrapbook this. And I never do a page start to finish in one sitting! Always working on it at bits at a time...love my scrapbook desk for that. :) It's July and I haven't even scrapbooked a single page for 2012 yet! I have been itching too though, and am about to print some pictures to do just that tonight!?


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Living Life In Costa Rica: THIS SATURDAY - 7/28 - Democrats ...

WHEN:? THIS Saturday? -? July 28th? -? 11am-2pm

WHERE:? La Gu?cima - West of the airport, near the Butterfly Farm.

PRICE:? Please bring food or drinks to share.

Everyone is welcome.

RESERVATIONS:? Directions given upon RSVP - CR.DemocratsAbroad@yahoo.com or call Nelleke at 2-279-3553.
Please state names of all attending & what type of food or drink you are bringing (example - Main dish [vegetarian or non-vegetarian]; salad/veggies; dessert; drinks, alcoholic/non alcoholic, etc.)

TRANSPORTATION:
They will provide van or bus transportation for 5,000 colones - round trip/per person.

PICKUPS:
10am - Paco Plaza - in the back by Fresh Market (Escaz?) (if you're parking there you'll need to give the parking attendant a nice tip since you're not using the businesses there)
10:30am - Teatro Nacional (South/Avenida 2nd/Segundo side).

Bus reservation mandatory:? David Sagel - 2-203-8193? /? Davdag79@aol.com
Please arrive at the bus stop before the scheduled time.

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exoticpets: does anyone know what could be wrong with my Boa?

Hello everyone?

I don?t know but it seems there?s something wrong with my boa-constrictor. A while ago I noticed a slight change at first I didn?t understand, but then it struck me, he looked like he was shrinking. He became very pale, and hadn?t shed in a while. His eyes were clear though. But I noticed some parts of his body appear to have some extra skin and when I touch him I feel his skin overall (except at the bottom where his belly is, scales of which feel and look normal) feels really? kinda hard, rough, flaky, sort of like? sandpaper. When I let him crawl through my fingers it no longer feels elastic and smooth like it would?ve normally been? and he?s sitting on his log or branches and I see some parts of his skin are literally crumpled and wrinkled (especially in the places where he?s folding his body)
SO anyways, he?s been living in a nice terrarium, he has the proper temperature a good amount of water where he can always soak in? and he does occasionally. He ate a week ago. He?s very active if you touch him or pick him up he?ll be exploring all over and even if you put him back he ll be hanging around for a long while before climbing up to the branch and sitting there. He seems really active. NOW that I said his eyes were clear, today I discovered they were foggy and gray. Plus he?s been really pale. He looks like he?s about to shed but not really. Something IS wrong!
I cant find a vet that would specialize in reptiles in my area that I can take my boa to. The few clinics that we got around here do only mammals. I am on it, but before I find one maybe you guys could enlighten me on what?s going on.
I?ve attached a HD photos I took (many of them for a better perspective and I tried to get them as detailed as I could) I appreciate an opinion.

SORRY IF THIS IT TOO MANY PICS, i made the small preview u can CLICK on each one to see it in a bigger size.
i hope it didn't bother anyone...

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Consider A Year-Round Calendar | Home and Family

Posted by adee on 25/07/2012 in Home and Family Consider A Year-Round Calendar

Consider A Year-Round Calendar

Proponents of YRE believe year-round school schedule for students to provide more continuity in their studies. This continuity is a product of what is known as a balanced calendar. Traditional school calendar offers a couple of breaks scheduled during the school. Rest is distributed over large parts of the education system day. This series of informative day are usually of different lengths, which is somewhere between the 40 to 55 days. Therefore, there is every quarter of the school year from a different number of days. This creates more stress on the quarter with a greater number of days. This calendar includes the traditional long summer break.

A common academic calendar usually provides balance to a reasonable number of hours with a break in the same room. The result is a short summer break (about a month) and smaller breaks evenly throughout the rest of the school year. What are the benefits? One advantage is that students in a loss of summer will see a half months long summer break prone. As the summer break is shorter, it will be forgotten very little time for the students in the lessons of the past year. Moreover, teachers in the revision of the material involved is less than a year earlier. In other words, more time can be spent teaching students new material, so that teachers can more perfectly in a school year and students have more continuity from year to year.

Bridging the Gap

YRE model gives schools more flexibility to help struggling students. Many schools use the free time to make repairs / tutoring program for students struggling to perform. As a result, schools are in a position to the lack of a struggling student overcome an allowed faster and more frequently than in a traditional school calendar. Suppose that a student performed poorly in math for the first quarter. During the break after the first quarter, the students and help for the concept that they did poorly on. In this way, students will be able to be another in a statement that can get to improve student performance. In contrast, the traditional school environments, after the first quarter of the class comes with a new theme. That same student is not able to clean up, the focus session / tutorial in order to keep pace with their math to get help. Therefore, the balanced calendar for teachers to pay more to fill the gaps in academic example of a traditional school schedule.

Flex Time

A common point of interest for the opponents of the school model is a negative impact on tourism. Contrary to popular belief, the YRE calendar will not hurt local tourism. In fact, these schools an advantage for tourism in many countries. Be cause some during the school year for a chance for families to take vacations and travel to a different time than the summer months. For example, Disney World, Orlando, potentially to an increase in visitors to the park in November and December. Although most of the winter months, in Orlando, mild temperatures this time of year. The students and their families with the winter, to places like Orlando, into what is usually to decide to visit off-season. A YRE calendar is closely associated with the traditional business agenda, providing a family with more opportunities to travel and activities during the year. Families have more options for a vacation with year-round schedule.

In The End

There are many benefits, year-round school schedule. Yre offer students more continuity in their educational experience, more opportunities for student development and more flexibility for family and leisure activities. If the national education system to help seriously implement programs for the development and implementation of students, they have all year long looking for education for their students. All options must be checked.

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Strobe eyewear training improves visual memory

ScienceDaily (July 23, 2012) ? Stroboscopic training, performing a physical activity while using eyewear that simulates a strobe-like experience, has been found to increase visual short-term memory retention, and the effects lasted 24 hours.

Participants in a Duke University study engaged in physical activities, such as playing catch, while using either specialized eyewear that limits vision to only brief snapshots or while using eyewear with clear lenses that provides uninterrupted vision. Participants completed a computer-based visual memory test before and after the physical activities. Research participants came from the Duke community. Many were recruited from University-organized sports teams, including varsity-level players. The study found that participants who trained with the strobe eyewear gained a boost in visual memory abilities.

Participants completed a memory test that required them to note the identity of eight letters of the alphabet that were briefly displayed on a computer screen. After a variable delay, participants were asked to recall one of the eight letters. On easy-level trials, the recall prompt came immediately after the letters disappeared, but on more difficult trials, the prompt came as late as 2.5 seconds following the display. Because participants did not know which letter they would be asked to recall, they had to retain all of the items in memory.

"Humans have a memory buffer in their brain that keeps information alive for a certain short-lived period," said Greg Appelbaum, assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke University and first author of the study. "Wearing the strobe eyewear during the physical training seemed to boost the ability to retain information in this buffer."

The strobe eyewear disrupts vision by only allowing the user to see glimpses of the world. The user must adjust their visual processing in order to perform normally, and this adjustment produces a lingering benefit; once participants removed the strobe eyewear, there was an observed boost in their visual memory retention, which was found to last 24 hours.

Earlier work by Appelbaum and the project's senior researcher, Stephen Mitroff, had shown that stroboscopic training improves visual perception, including the ability to detect subtle motion cues and the processing of briefly presented visual information. Yet the earlier study had not determined how long the benefits might last.

"Our earlier work on stroboscopic training showed that it can improve perceptual abilities, but we don't know exactly how," says Mitroff, associate professor of psychology & neuroscience and member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. "This project takes a big step by showing that these improved perceptual abilities are driven, at least in part, by improvements in visual memory."

"Improving human cognition is an important goal with so many benefits," said Appelbaum, also a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. "Interestingly, our findings demonstrate one way in which visual experience has the capacity to improve cognition."

Participants for the study came from the 2010-2011 Duke University men's and women's varsity soccer teams, Duke's 2010-2011 men's basketball team and members of the general Duke community. Mitroff reported that participants had little or no trouble with the stroboscopic training, and several participants later returned to inquire about how they could be involved as research assistants.

The research was supported by Nike SPARQ Sensory Performance, who designed the eyewear and is marketing it as Nike SPARQ Vapor Strobe. The study appears online July 19 in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

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The Food Lab: For The Best Sun Tea, Forget The Sun | Serious Eats ...

It's time for another round of The Food Lab. Got a suggestion for an upcoming topic? Email Kenji here, and he'll do his best to answer your queries in a future post. Become a fan of The Food Lab on Facebook or follow it on Twitter for play-by-plays on future kitchen tests and recipe experiments.

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[Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt]

Before we get into this, I'm going to give the quick reveal right up top for you folks who don't like to read (or skim).

For the best sun tea, don't bother with the sun.

  • Step 1: Combine cold water and tea in a glass or plastic pitcher at a ratio of 1 tea bag per cup of water. You can use loose tea leaves (1 1/2 teaspoon per cup) if you'd like, but save the good stuff for hot tea.
  • Step 2: Place the pitcher in the fridge, not out in the sun. The flavor in the end is better, and it's safer to drink.
  • Step 3: Wait 5 hours (more or less depending on how strong you like it).
  • Step 4: Discard tea bags, sweeten tea as desired, and serve over ice. Store the leftover tea in the fridge for up to 3 days.

Now the long version:

If you ask my wife, she'll confirm to you that I'm an unabashed romantic. I don't complain when she leaves in the middle of watching me play video games so she can go watch Project Runway in the other room. I'll put on clean socks and change my underwear for special occasions like tenth anniversaries and bicentennial birthdays. I even sometimes let her bite the tip off my pizza slice so long as she gives me her crust in return.

Given my affinity for blatantly schmaltzy moves like these, you'd think that I'd be a sucker for sun tea, and yes, there's an undeniable romantic appeal to the concept?iced tea brewed using the power of the sun in pretty old-fashioned glass containers. The perfect cooling sipper for hot summer days and all that. But romance is one thing and results are another.

My questions: does sun tea work? Does it really produce a better tasting or easier tea than the many alternatives? What about this whole business about never using plastic? Bags or loose leaves? Can I sweeten before I add the tea, or must I follow the advice of every Southern cookbook, blog, and grandmother out there, using only Luzianne tea bags and adding sugar only after it's brewed? And wait a minute, is the stuff even safe to drink?

On the first sunny day I could manage, I whipped out my digital thermometer, a half dozen pitchers and containers of various materials, more tea than you could shake a swizzle stick at, and got to brewing. Here's what I found.

The Tea

The idea with sun tea is simple: place tea bags (or loose tea) in a glass container filled with water and set it in direct sunlight. A few hours later, you've got brewed tea, ready to be served over a cup of ice. The story is that the heat of the sun makes tea extraction faster, giving you ready-to-drink tea within a couple hours without the need to heat up water indoors. Some folks also say that the flavor is different because of the lower temperature extraction.

Before going in depth with my testing, I first wanted to determine the optimal type of tea to use, as well as the ratio of tea to water. I brewed sun tea with both loose leaf and tea bags (for consistency's sake, everything was made with Lipton black tea), as well as the "cold brew" bags designed for quicker extraction at cool temperatures.

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NOTE: The loose leaf tea pictured on the left is not actually Lipton. It's an ultra-fancy tea that Max had hidden in the closet at the office. Sorry Max. Actually taste tests were done using real Lipton tea, which I misplaced on the day photos were shot.

With these three options, what it basically all comes down to is the size of the pieces of tea leaf. Loose tea has large-ish strips of cut tea leaf, while regular tea bags contain a much finer ground mixture. Cold brew bags have the smallest pieces?nearly dust-like in appearance. While these teas are all coming from the same original source, the quality can vary quite a bit. Indeed, I talked briefly with the chief supply chain officer of Lipton, who told me that the tea destined for the iced-tea market (that is, the cold brew stuff and the tea bags sold in the Southern U.S.) is the lowest quality tea of their whole lineup; large, intact tea leaves are prized more highly by serious tea drinkers than ground leaves. So does using better tea make for better iced tea?

Tasting the brewed teas side-by-side, there was a clear difference, though even the cold brew bags produced a drink that was reliably refreshing with plenty of real tea flavor. With less extraction and fewer volatile molecules in the air, the difference between great tea and mediocre tea when we're talking cold tea is simply not as big as it is with hot tea. Save the good stuff for drinking hot. Regular old tea bags will do for our tests.

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As for the ratio, I tried everything from one bag per quart up to six bags and found four per quart to be the sweet spot (that's 1 tea bag per cup of water).

Glass or Plastic?

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I've read in multiple sources (including on this very site!) that only glass should be used for making sun tea, never plastic. To test this, I made tea using glass jars, heavy-duty clear polycarbonate jars, inexpensive takeout deli-style containers, as well as a completely opaque aluminum container. After brewing for 4 hours in the sun, all of the water was at roughly the same temperature (about 102?F?not hot enough to leach any unsafe contaminants off of the inexpensive plastic).

When tasted straight out of the containers, there was a definite difference. The glass and heavy duty polycarbonate was the cleanest tasting, while the plastic deli containers and aluminum container both had distinct off-flavors. However, after pouring the tea out into glasses, they were all but indistinguishable. Moral? Make your sun tea in any container you'd like, but make sure to serve it out of real glasses.

Here Comes The Sun?

For my next round of tests, I wanted to address the real big question: what exactly does the sun do for our tea? There are a number of possible answers. The most obvious is that it heats the water, and warmer water should make for more efficient extraction of flavor. It's also possible that the warmer water actually changes the shape of some of the flavorful molecules in the tea, creating flavors that simply don't exist from colder extractions. Finally, it could be that the light from the sun itself could be changing some of molecules in the tea?giving it a sunburn, if you will?affecting its flavor.

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To test for all these variables, I made seven more batches of tea:

  • Batch 1: Brewed directly in the sun.
  • Batch 2: Brewed in an opaque container in the sun.
  • Batch 3: Brewed in the shade.
  • Batch 4: Brewed indoors on the countertop.
  • Batch 5: Brewed in the refrigerator.
  • Batch 6: Brewed in a water bath kept at 102?F, in complete darkness
  • Batch 7: Brewed with boiling water, tea bags steeped for 2 minutes, then allowed to cool to room temperature

After four hours, I took the temperature of all the teas. The ones in direct sunlight (whether in clear or opaque containers) as well as the tea brewed in the water bath were all at around 102?F, in the shade it was at 75?F, indoors we got around 70?F, and in the fridge we were down at 40?F.

When tasted side by side, both sun-brewed batches and the darkened water-bath batch were all completely indistinguishable from each other, which eliminates the idea that the sun itself has some sort of magical tea-extracting properties to it. We're talking temperature here, if anything.

What about the difference between hot, warm, and cold extraction? The tea extracted with boiling water was quite clearly different from the other teas. Slightly more astringent and bitter, it tasted like exactly what it was: hot tea that had been allowed to cool. The remaining teas were much milder in flavor with more aroma and less astringency or bitterness?closer to what you want with an actual iced tea.

But here's the surprising part: between the actual sun tea, the shade tea, the countertop tea, and the refrigerator tea, there was very little difference in flavor extraction. The fridge tea was slightly paler and more dilute in flavor than the actual sun tea, but by letting the bags steep for just one more hour in the fridge, I achieved the same basic level of extraction as the tea steeped in the sun.

The difference was that the fridge-tea tasted better. Cleaner, fresher, with a balanced acidity and very slight bitterness. The actual sun tea was nearly as good, but it had a bit of the tinniness and astringency that I associate more with brewed hot tea than cool tea.

There's another issue at hand here: regular sun tea is not particularly safe. I mean, I'm no bacteriaphobe?I've stuck things in my mouth that most people wouldn't even touch with gloved-hands?but all else being equal, I'd rather go with the safer option, and the fact is, sun tea is not perfectly safe. The temperatures at which it brews is ideal breeding grounds for bacteria. Both the acidity of tea as well as its caffeine content can help to keep things at bay, but if it actually tastes better from the fridge, why take the risk?

This is also the reason why you should only sweeten your sun tea (should you choose to make it) after brewing it. Flavor-wise, it makes no difference at all, but safety-wise, it does: the sugar provides food for more rapid bacterial growth.

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For some, the nostalgic and romantic appeal of brewing tea in the sun is a powerful impetus to go for the real deal, but for me, the answer's clear: Forget sun tea. For the best iced tea, brew your tea in the fridge. Not only is it safer and tastier, it also comes out cold and ready to drink.

Heck, I might even share some of my fridge-tea with my wife if she'd ever stop hogging the pizza tips.

About the author: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is the Chief Creative Officer of Serious Eats where he likes to explore the science of home cooking in his weekly column The Food Lab. You can follow him at @thefoodlab on Twitter, or at The Food Lab on Facebook.

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A rally in defense of the Russian Orthodox Church was held on July 22 on Moscow?...

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Romney and GOP raise $10 million in California over two days

A two-day fundraising swing through California by Mitt Romney brought in $10 million, a sizable addition to the presumptive GOP nominee?s war chest as he prepares for the general election battle with President Obama.

Romney raised the money at seven fundraisers on Sunday and Monday. A campaign source disclosed the amount during a breakfast fundraiser Monday morning at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine.

During the fundraiser and a small-business roundtable in Costa Mesa on Monday, Romney continued to strike a less partisan tone, as he has since the Aurora, Colo., shooting Friday that left 12 people dead and scores injured.

PHOTOS: The search for Romney's running mate

Mentioning the shooting at the fundraiser, Romney said it was ?natural? for Americans to wonder what they or the government could do to prevent such acts.

"The reality is what can we as people do? Our heritage as a nation is that when there are people problems, people respond to them and people solve them," he said, noting that Alexis de Tocqueville said Americans are unique because of "our willingness to serve one another, the barn raisings, if you will."

"We need more barn raisings in America, more people who don't just look and say, 'What can government do?' but instead, 'What things can I do to make a difference in the lives of people near me?'" Romney told about 400 supporters who nibbled on quiche and asparagus.

Romney was introduced by local businessman Frank Kavanaugh, who surprised the crowd by disclosing that in 2008, though he raised money for Romney and supported GOP nominee John McCain, he ultimately voted for Obama, drawn by his message of ?hope and change.?

But "hope is not a strategy and nothing has changed," he said, saying that he supported Romney because of his real-world experience.

Romney responded by telling the crowd it was vital to flip voters who supported Obama four years ago.

?Anyone who voted for John McCain, almost without exception, is planning on voting for me. And the way I win this election is by getting people who voted for Barack Obama to say he didn't live up to their expectations," Romney said. Obama voters from 2008 "are the ones we need. We need to talk to them."

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Open the Cosmosphere Address 0x00374:0137:8302:: through the Tower of Life and enter the spiritual world of Opale.
EXEC => sarla PERDITA yetere EXPAND ADDR:0x00374:0137:8302:: co EOLIA_6D_REVATAIL en lokku fa
Execute the song Perdita then expand the Cosmosphere at the Address 0x00374:0137:8302:: within the Eolia ?-6D Reyvateil and seal it away.
Hymme has nol soare....
I will sing what will be my final song....

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