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Week 3, day 2 of My Eating Well Challenge.
When people ask, "If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one food, what would it be?" I often think my answer would be pizza. Between the dough, the sauce, and the toppings, the variations are practically endless. I am also not prejudiced in favor of any one particular style. Although I am particularly fond of the thin-crust style I grew up with in Brooklyn, I can appreciate deep-dish, stuffed, and most variations of toppings.
This recipe has intrigued me since I first read it. According to EatingWell, adding pumpkin puree to the sauce increases fiber and beta carotene, but what about the taste? It turns out it's quite good. One wouldn't notice unless they were looking for an odd ingredient, they'd just think it's a relatively sweet sauce. When I questioned my family, they guessed sweet potato. I believe adding a bit of salt to the sauce would balance the flavor.
The recipe also features a favorite secret ingredient of mine: Turkey pepperoni. I am generally disappointed by "replacement" foods, but turkey pepperoni is an exception. When cooked, its flavor is nearly identical to the pork and beef version, but has significantly less fat.
This pizza is certainly no replacement for my beloved Fascati or Grimaldi, but it's a very good, satisfying pizza that can be prepared quickly. I'm sure little kids would love this recipe (and they can help make it, too).
1. Place oven rack in the lowest position; preheat to 450°F. Coat a large baking sheet with cooking spray.
2. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to the size of the baking sheet. Transfer to the baking sheet. Bake until puffed and lightly crisped on the bottom, 8 to 10 minutes.
3. Whisk pumpkin puree, tomato sauce and garlic powder in a small bowl until combined.
4. Spread sauce evenly over the baked crust. Top with mozzarella, Parmesan and pepperoni. Bake until the crust is crispy on the edges and the cheeses have melted, about 12 minutes.
Week 2, day 4 of My Eating Well Challenge.
In 1990, there was a film about an advertising executive whose "truthful" campaigns are accidentally published. One of those was for Volvo: "They're boxy, but they're good." This is exactly the thought I had when I tasted the meatloaf, due to its compact, rectangular shape. I have made this recipe using muffin tins, but I found the small loaf shape is more attractive for serving and makes for more evenly cut slices for sandwiches.
You will be absolutely stunned at how quickly the recipe comes together. Turkey meatloaf tends to be dry, but this recipe is particularly moist thanks to the vegetables and couscous, and just a touch spicy from the mustard and Worcestershire. Ignoring the color, one does not miss the beef at all. I replaced the optional barbecue sauce with Heinz chili sauce, as I prefer the tomato flavor with meatloaf. They reheat perfectly, making a satisfying lunch the next day.
View the recipe and nutritional information on EatingWell.com.
1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Generously spray a nonstick muffin pan with cooking spray.
2. Gently mix turkey, zucchini, onion, bell pepper, couscous, egg, Worcestershire, mustard, pepper and salt in a large bowl, preferably with your hands, without overworking. Equally divide the mixture among the muffin cups. Spread barbecue sauce on top of each loaf, if using.
3. Bake until the meatloaves are cooked through or an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center registers 165 degrees F, about 25 minutes. Let the loaves stand in the pan for 5 minutes before serving.
Week 1, Day 3 of My Eating Well Challenge. I like to eat vegetarian a few days a week, but vegetarian main dish entrees can become boring without some inspiration. While this is not the most creative entree, it has some very nice flavor reminiscent of many Italian style dishes I've had, and the greens make the stuffing substantial and flavorful. I substituted mustard greens, as they were in better condition than the kale at my market. Although light on their own, the peppers make a filling dish when served with a side salad. One thing to note, keep a watch on the peppers when roasting them. I let them go a little too long and my pepper bowls nearly became pepper plates.
View the recipe and nutrition information at EatingWell.com.
You can vary the filling by substituting robust mustard greens or collards, or milder greens, such as spinach, escarole or Swiss chard.
1. To prepare peppers: Preheat oven to 400°F. Halve peppers lengthwise through the stems, leaving them attached. Remove the seeds. Lightly brush the peppers outside and inside with oil; sprinkle the insides with salt and pepper. Place, cut-side down, in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Bake until peppers are just tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Let cool slightly. Turn cut-side up.
2. To prepare filling: Bring 2 cups salted water to a boil in a large wide pan. Stir in kale, cover and cook until tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Drain, rinse under cold water; squeeze dry. Finely chop.
3. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onion and chopped bell pepper; cook, stirring often, until onion is golden, 6 to 8 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Stir in the kale. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly. Stir in rice, Parmesan, 2 tablespoons pine nuts and lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper. Divide the filling among the pepper halves. Sprinkle with the remaining 2 tablespoons pine nuts.
4. Add 2 tablespoons water to the baking dish. Cover the peppers with foil and bake until heated through, 15 to 20 minutes. Uncover and bake for 5 minutes more. Serve hot.
I know I said I'd cook more using recipes from my vast collection of cookbooks, but it was just one of those days. At work, tired, wanting something healthy and delicious to eat for dinner, but not wanting to cook. I knew I needed something to blog about, but whatever; the blog post could wait. I was thinking perhaps I'd pick up a rotisserie chicken from the local rotisserie chicken place or from Whole Foods and be done with it. No pans to clean, no carving, no hassle. That's when I ran across a blog post by Michael Ruhlman, "America: Too Stupid To Cook," and hung my head in shame.
Which brings me to my point. Left to their own devices with only an oven and a piece of meat, I'm pretty sure anyone can figure out that they need to turn the oven on and put the meat inside the oven to cook it. But because people are hammered by TV, websites, magazines, and cookbooks with a million techniques, they become frightened and don't cook at all. A million questions are then asked: What temperature do I cook the meat? It doesn't matter much – either a low temperature for a long time or a higher temperature for a shorter time. Do I need to marinate? Nice, but not necessary. What about seasonings? Salt and pepper do just fine. When is it done? When it is cooked. Really, stop worrying! Block out the noise in your head. Do what feels right. Our grandparents did not have the luxury of meat thermometers, or ovens that told (or even held) an actual temperature, or a bookstore filled with hundreds of cookbooks, or exotic ingredients just a click away. They simply put real food on the table. That's what we should aspire to.
To continue with the story of the chicken, my personal shame after reading Mr. Ruhlman's article came not from a feeling that I couldn't cook. My shame came from knowing that I can cook a perfectly delicious, healthy meal, without much trouble, and that I was choosing not to because I was tiiirrreeed. I've been choosing to do this for most of my adult life, and I should have learned by now that this is a terrible waste on so many levels. Don't get me wrong, if you're going to go the fast-food route, a rotisserie chicken is possibly one of the best options. But for me, someone with easy access to good ingredients, who knows how ridiculously simple it can be to roast a chicken, it seemed silly. I was about to spend too much money for too little food, with questionable nutritional value, for poultry that was probably raised in a factory. I decided I would get over myself and roast a chicken.
As soon as I arrived home, before I even changed my clothes, I turned the oven to 475 degrees F.
I put the roasting pan with the vegetables and the chickens into the oven and immediately turned the temperature down to 400 F.
While the chickens were lying about, I put a bag of frozen green beans in the microwave to steam per the directions, dumped them in a bowl with a bit of butter and salt.
Ultimately, the only thing you *need* here is an oven, a chicken, a roasting pan, and some salt and pepper. I know some people would not use salt at all, but that's completely against my culinary principles.
If you want to make things complicated, possibly the best roast chicken I've ever made was the one from the Zuni Cafe Cookbook. You can see an adapted recipe here. This will require salting the chicken a day ahead, preheating a pan, searing the breast, etc. It is not difficult, and it's definitely worth cooking, but it's not necessarily something I'd want to tackle during the week.
The next evening I made chicken salad from the second chicken. This cranberry walnut version is a delicious recipe that takes only a few minutes to make. Chicken salad is super easy – it's just diced chicken tossed with a perked-up mayonnaise dressing.
Two days later I made chicken stock. I pulled the skin/fat off the backs of the carcasses, cut some carrot, celery, and shallot (I didn't have onions) into pieces, bundled some thyme and a bay leaf, put it all in a pot and covered it all with cold water. I left it on a high simmer for three hours. Because we did such a good job eating the chicken, there was very little protein or fat to skim off. I would up with four quarts of beautiful chicken stock!
Two chickens, several meals, and a valuable lesson learned. It truly didn't take much effort to feed me and my family a few wholesome meals, and it cost significantly less money than take-out. So while I'll continue with the cookbook experiment, you'll definitely be seeing these toss-it-together weeknight recipes as often.


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Bar Council urges action as Crown Court backlog increases again to over 60,000 cases
Responding to today's publications of the criminal justice statistics for Q2 2021 which showed the Crown Court backlog has increased yet again to more than 60,000 cases waiting to be heard, Derek Sweeting QC, Chair of the Bar Council, said:
"Efforts to reduce waiting times and the number of outstanding cases in the crown court, where the most serious criminal offences are tried, are not working quickly enough. These latest figures echo those of our own survey findings, with 82% of criminal barristers reporting problems in the court system. Our own data also shows a long-term exodus of barristers from criminal practice, which will only continue, and add to these problems, unless there is urgent investment.
"The backlog was at record levels before Covid but the pandemic has made things worse. Without a substantial reduction, both in the backlog and waiting times, the public will lose confidence in law and order.
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Updated Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy released by NSW Government
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AN updated plan to renew and reinvigorate the Sydenham to Bankstown corridor has the potential to deliver more than 35,000 new homes and 8,500 jobs along the new Sydney Metro train line, according to the NSW Government who released the plan for public exhibition last week.
The revised Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy will guide development in the 11 precincts along the 13.5-kilometre corridor over the next 20 years, and two areas where there was considerable community feedback – Hurlstone Park and Dulwich Hill – have seen a reduction on the number of dwellings planned for the area.
Minister for Planning and Housing, Anthony Roberts, said the community played an integral part in the updated version of the strategy. "The community made it clear that each precinct along the corridor has its own unique character and we understand that keeping the local character of these precincts is vital," he said.
"We want to revitalise areas around the proposed Sydney Metro line with new homes, cafes, restaurants, shops and open space without compromising the neighbourhood character and heritage of areas like Marrickville, Hurlstone Park and Dulwich Hill," Mr Roberts said.
"But it is fundamental that we harness the benefits of the Sydney Metro, Australia's largest public transport project. The Sydney Metro is a once in a generation infrastructure project that will give the people along this train corridor some of the best public transport services in the world."
Mr Roberts said supply was the key in tackling housing affordability in Sydney and growth strategies such as the Sydenham to Bankstown corridor will make a positive impact.
"We need to balance the growth challenges Sydney is facing with the need to unlock more housing supply, offering a variety of housing choices for people of all ages close to transport and jobs," he said.
Mr Roberts said a key open space initiative of the strategy was a plan for a new 13-kilometre-long linear park from Lakemba to Punchbowl providing a key link in Sydney's Green Grid combining opportunities for walking, cycling, play and increased tree cover and planting.
"The park will be a green spine linking key destinations including Tasker and Belmore Parks and the Cooks River. We hope it will become a much-loved nature based destination for residents and visitors to the area," he said.
Some key changes in the revised strategy include:
The number of homes forecast in the strategy for Hurlstone Park has reduced by more than 800 and more than 1400 in Dulwich Hill;
Keeping more areas of low-density housing and identifying new and expanded potential heritage conservation areas in Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park and Marrickville to preserve local character and heritage;
Canterbury, Campsie, Lakemba and Belmore have all recently been announced as priority precincts, bringing new opportunities for more homes and jobs along this transport corridor, with master planning to start this year;
Planning for new, improved or expanded open space in areas where there is a significant increase in new homes;
A new park proposed along the Sydney Metro train line between Sydenham and Bankstown; and
Improved pedestrian and cycling connections across the corridor.
To advance some the local infrastructure and public domain improvements along the corridor, the Department of Planning and Environment will provide funding to the Inner West Council and Canterbury-Bankstown Council through the Precinct Support Scheme.
More information is available from the Department of Planning and Environment website at <http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Plans-for-your-area/Priority-Growth-Areas-and-Precincts/Sydenham-to-Bankstown-Urban-Renewal-Corridor>. The exhibition period ends on 3 September 2017.
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How Bad was the First-Half St. Louis Cardinals Offense?
photo: Matt Carpenter and Paul Goldschmidt (Jeff Curry/Imagn)
Seven of the nine top hitters on the St. Louis Cardinals are performing both below their career averages and below the National League average in 2019 to date.
As the St. Louis Cardinals trudged into the mathematical midpoint of the 2019 schedule with a 40-41 record, including a current five-game losing skid, they are just one game from completing a mediocre month in a mediocre season to date.
The reason is simple – an offense in which seven of the nine semi-regulars are playing below their career averages. Further, the seven are performing below the MLB average this season. Making matters even worse, the team's best players had the worst first halves of 2019.
If the Cards can win at San Diego Sunday, they will finish both the month and the season at exactly .500, 13-13 and 41-41, respectively. This continues the season's roller-coaster ride that began with a 19-10 April, followed by a disastrous 9-18 May, the third-worst May in team history.
For the season, the Cardinals pitching staff is fourth in the 15-team National League with a 4.18 ERA, and for this month, have been even better at 3.71, no. 3 in the NL.
Anyone watching the team on even a casual basis knows problem number one for this team has been and continues to be run-scoring. In June, the offense has hit a low, ranking 14th in the league in runs scored and last in batting average and OPS, among other categories. For the season, their no. 12 ranking in scoring leaves little optimism that a corner will be turned any time soon.
The reasons for this group offensive struggle may be as diverse as the individuals themselves. I don't pretend to know where to point the finger. But whatever the explanations might be, the numbers do not lie. Almost the entire St. Louis offense is underachieving in 2019 – many to a significant extent.
In the table below, I use OPS, on-base plus slugging, and OPS+. The latter is based on a normalized scale in which 100 is league-average.
Not surprisingly, with an 89 OPS+, the 2019 Cardinals as a team are 11 percent below the NL average through 81 games.
But the most relevant measure for any player is to himself, in my view. So, I include alongside first-half numbers for each of the Cardinals key hitters, their career average (including 2019), plus their best and worst seasons.
The table is ordered by the greatest discrepancy between a Cardinals player's 2019 first half OPS+ and his career mark.
1H 2019 2019 OPS+ Career Best Worst prior
Hitters Age OPS OPS+ vs. career OPS OPS+ OPS OPS+ Year OPS OPS+ Year Season
Paul Goldschmidt 31 0.742 97 -45 0.916 142 1.005 168 2015 0.808 117 2011 Rookie
Matt Carpenter 33 0.706 88 -39 0.837 127 0.897 144 2018 0.750 112 2014
Jose Martinez 30 0.739 97 -25 0.827 122 0.894 134 2017 0.821 125 2018
Yadier Molina 36 0.670 77 -21 0.738 98 0.874 137 2012 0.595 53 2006 2nd full
Harrison Bader 25 0.700 86 -10 0.728 96 0.756 107 2018 0.659 72 2017 Rookie
Dexter Fowler 33 0.741 98 -7 0.778 105 0.84 123 2016 0.576 59 2018
Kolten Wong 28 0.694 85 -6 0.704 91 0.788 109 2017 0.682 84 2016
Paul DeJong 25 0.809 113 +1 0.803 112 0.857 121 2017 0.746 103 2018
Marcell Ozuna (IL) 28 0.847 121 +7 0.787 114 0.924 149 2017 0.691 92 2015
Entire team 0.715 89
Paul Goldschmidt (Steve Mitchell/Imagn)
The culprits
As the table indicates, the four greatest 2019 underachievers are all in their 30's. The corner infield tandem of Paul Goldschmidt and Matt Carpenter lead the decline, with the first baseman actually performing worse against his career norm than the beleaguered third baseman.
Goldschmidt, known previously for his annual consistency, is on track for the worst season of his career. The first baseman is down 45 points of OPS+ from his career average, is 71 points below his best season and 20 points of OPS+ lower than his prior low point, set in his rookie season of 2011.
Matt Carpenter (Steve Mitchell/Imagn)
Carpenter, who is also tracking toward a career-worst season by 24 points of OPS+, is experiencing a fall that may be the most perplexing. I suggest this because even with the struggles early and late, 2018 was his career high water mark in OPS and OPS+. Further, unlike Goldschmidt, he isn't adjusting to a new team.
Jose Martinez (Steve Mitchell/Imagn)
Jose Martinez, generally considered to be a reliable bat whether starting or coming off the bench, is having his worst MLB season to date (in a relatively short career) while declining each season.
Another common thread is that all three of these 30+plus aged hitters received contract extensions this spring.
Catcher Yadier Molina is tracking toward his lowest OPS+ since his second full season of 2006.
Three other Cardinals are performing below their career norms and league average – but not to the extent of the aforementioned quartet – Harrison Bader, Dexter Fowler and Kolten Wong. The trio are arguably less important to the offense than the four struggling the most.
Paul DeJong (Steve Mitchell/Imagn)
Even the Cardinals' good hitters haven't been great. The only two of the nine are performing above their career norms and above the league average in 2019 – Marcell Ozuna and Paul DeJong – are not enjoying career-best seasons.
Making matters even worse, Ozuna, the team's best hitter in the first half, was placed on the injured list just prior to game no. 81 with a hand injury that could trouble him for some time to come.
DeJong was off to a hot start like his team, but has cooled since. Still, the shortstop is the Cardinal performing closest to his career average and rightfully, was recognized as St. Louis' representative in the 2019 All-Star Game. (By rule, each team must have at least one player on the squad.)
But DeJong, now alone on the Cardinals' active roster as an above-average hitter here in 2019, cannot do it alone.
The 2019 Cardinals offense has no one enjoying a career season, and instead, has swung hard in the downward direction.
Seven of its top nine hitters are not only performing below league average, but also significantly lower than their own career averages.
Arguably the most important three hitters, those who are also struggling the most, are all in their 30s. While Paul Goldschmidt, Matt Carpenter and Jose Martinez have enjoyed success in the past, all three are on track for career lows in OPS+ here in 2019.
The other Cardinal on the wrong side of 30 among the worst strugglers, Yadier Molina, is on his way to his lowest point since 2006.
Unless a number of these hitters rediscover the fountain of youth in the second half, the chances of the team getting enough pitching to overcome this underachieving offense and break the three-year playoff drought appear slim.
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Congratulations to Hunger Street Tacos, winner of the platinum Foodster Award for Independent Restaurant for Best Craft Tacos. I presented owner Joseph Creech with his plaque, which will be displayed at the restaurant at 2103 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park. Black Rooster was second.
The restaurants listed here have been nominated for Best Craft Tacos in our Foodster Awards for Independent Restaurants.
Voting ends at midnight June 7.


This hidden gem is found by a 4 minute car passenger ferry ride or private boat. The mode of transportation is typically golf carts. Most of the land joins some body of water. The Gulf of Mexico, Bocilla Lagoon, Kettle Harbor, Lemon Bay, the Intracoastal Waterway and various canals. There are actually two islands connected by two small bridges, Knight Island and Don Pedro Island. Most of the homes on the island are Key West style construction on pilings, although we also have elevated concrete homes being built.
We have public water and FIRE/EMTs available on island 24/7 effective in January 2015. Currently we have FIRE/EMTs on island at night when the ferry is not running. There is a restaurant at the north end of the island with access to golf cart, kayak, paddleboard and bike rentals.
The development on island began in 1957 when two individuals purchased a parcel of raw land. They subsequently platted over 550 lots and a road system and named the subdivision Palm Island Estates. During the following two years, they continued developing the island by installing two small bridges on the island, then a bridge which joined the island to the mainland. At that time, it could have been presumed the island would develop fairly quickly, however, in 1964 the Army Corp of Engineers activated a plan to dredge the Intracoastal Waterway. In compliance with a pre-confirmed agreement, the bridge connect the island to the mainland was dismantled. Fortunate for us!


In 2018, I did my 5th and last Ironman in Santa Rosa. After about ten years in the sport of triathlon, I decided to retire for a variety of reasons most notably having 2 teenage kids who needed me on weekends. A few months ago, the wife of a good friend called me to tell me she had just signed up for her first Ironman – IM Arizona. She new I had done a few including IM AZ and wanted to pick my brain 'for a few minutes.' Our conversation lasted about 2 hours. Frankly, I was surprised that I had so much to offer that I had learned over the years. A familiar 'aha' occurred that all retirees feel – I am leaving the sport I love when I know the most. I then asked myself why I would keep all that I had learned to myself? Why not share it and help a first-time ironman or whomever reach their goals. Thus, this oped.
Full disclosure, I am not a triathlon coach, never have been one and have no plans to be one. I am, at best, an average triathlete having done over 40 triathlons that included 10 Half Ironmans (HIM) and 5 Full Ironmans. My first HIM was at age 42 and first full ironman at age 43. I had no background to speak of in any discipline. There were 2 HIMs that I did not finish, but I did finish all the rest with a HIM PR of 5:24 hours and a full IM PR of 11:46 hours. All this so you have a better context of my learnings below. In addition, I went to several different triathlon camps hosted by professional triathletes or elite triathletes/coaches over the years. I have used several coaches for my own training. I have trained with novices and podium finishers. I have learned a great deal from all these experiences and people. What I will share is my opinion based on these experiences. You may disagree with me, and that's ok. I'm not selling anything or trying to convince anyone of anything. This is simply my top 10 key learnings.
Hire a coach if you are new or not having initial success. Triathlon is a sport where in addition to the obvious swim, bike, and run, many key variables have to be tried, tested and tested again. Most notably, your nutrition, hydration, and recovery plans. The latter is very unique to you, your body, your experience, your goals, your gender and your age. A good coach who understands ALL these variables, is key to your success.
The uncontrollable variables on race-day will have a larger impact on your performance than you think or can plan for. If the temperature is even 10 degrees warmer than you trained or planned for, the impact on your nutrition, hydration, pace, watts, strategy will be huge. If the wind blows harder or from one side, if the water is choppier, if the hills were steeper than you thought and have to burn higher watts than planned, if you get bit by a jelly fish on the swim …. All kinds of adjustments have to be made in real time with the clock ticking against a plan you spent 8-10 months preparing for that did not include these mishaps. Making the right adjustments should therefore be a big part of your training and race-day strategy. You must have a plan B, C, and D for each leg. Going into a race thinking all your training will result in a perfect day simply does not happen, at least not for us average triathletes.
Swimming in the pool and swimming in open water are not the same. Obvious right? My best race swims were when I did the bulk of my swims in open water. Races are all in OW. Conditions of OW, direction, turns, current, sighting, etc cannot be simulated in the pool. Get a group together, find a safe ow area and swim as much as possible in OW. Use the pool for fine tuning your stroke, drills and speed work, but 2 of your 3 swims per week should be in OW. Be less worried about speed and more worried about efficiency. The swim is the warmup for us average athletes. Finishing 1.2 or 2.4 miles of OW having used the least amount of energy is key. I'm not suggesting be slow, not at all. I'm saying focus more on efficiency than speed. Whatever speed comes from your efficiency is the right speed for you. Chasing speed in the swim, unless you plan to podium, is a very low ROI. That time is better spend chasing speed on the run, where it really matters most.
You are literally wasting money buying an expensive bike. All you need is an average bike that is custom fit. It is easy to spend $1000s on bike. You are better off getting a bike that fits your body and using money to get adjustments on your initial fit 1-2 times per season, a good aero helmet and tires (not necessary wheels). Whatever aerodynamic savings an expensive bike will promise, you will lose when on the course when you sit up for periods of time which us average athletes will do a lot of. Long rides in Zone 2 are also key, as opposed to long rides at race watts. Minimize your breaks on long rides to simulate race day rides. Riding long rides in zones with other people that are too high or too low for you is not going to help you.
Never ride outside alone. Period. No matter your skill level. One of the reasons for my retirement is the explosion of car/bike accidents. It really is not safe outside anymore and has little to do with you. Ride in packs, wear bright colors, use rear flashing lights, and never challenge a driver or a small space in the road. It is not worth it. You are a human being with loved ones first, not a triathlete, and no race is worth your injury or life. If you are slower rider in the race, then the same safety measures should apply to you as races are all done on actual roads with actual cars and the fewer fellow bikers around you, the higher the risk of an accident.
You will know if you tapered correctly in the 1st 20 miles of the bike. If the same watts that you trained for feel easy, then you did it right. If it feels harder, then you did it wrong and need to adjust not just on the bike but also the run. A tapered body feels amazing and the mistake is to interpret this as "oh, it's easy, I can go harder" – and that's when you will pay for it later in the bike or for sure on the run. Ride the bike at the watts range you trained for, and if you still feel good when you get off the bike in T2, then the run is the only place where you should push it. I have had bad swims, bad bikes and bad runs. Nothing feels worse than a bad run. I've had a poor swim and poor bike but great run and it actually feels great to cross the finish line with a smile. As a friend told me: A triathlon is a running sport with a strange warmup of swimming and biking. It's my opinion that efficient running is the least trained part of Triathlon. Taking run lessons to figure out the best gait for your body can have the biggest impact on your performance.
About 1-3 weeks prior to your race, do a dry run of about 25% of your race distance but at race pace. Set up transitions exactly as in race (whether at bike set up or in bags) and rehearse the whole sequence wearing your race kit and equipment. You will be shocked at the little things that you will pick up on what to do on race day. I did one for all 15 HIM/IM races and was happy to be reminded of things I otherwise overlooked.
Always drive the bike course and bike the run course the day or two before race. You will notice little things that on race day will look familiar and not surprise you. You want to minimize race day surprises as there are too many decisions to make. I once asked a pro triathlete to make a list of decisions she made on race day starting from the time she woke up. She stopped the list at swim start because it was already several pages. Race day is about 1000s of decisions … and the ones you forget to make or make incorrectly will be what will bother you most after the race. So make a list of decisions from moment you wake up till about 2 hours after race. The latter should include post race attire and nutrition, logistics for pick up, etc.
Thank volunteers and encourage your fellow athletes. In my first HIM, B2B in NC, I told myself I wanted to have the unofficial world record of saying "Thank You" in a race. I believe I did it that day and all my races since. 9/10 folks that I said "Thank You" to, I got a positive response back from the volunteer – be it a smile or a "you look great!' and I soaked up their responses until I got to the next volunteer. It kept me from thinking about many negative thoughts inherent in any endurance event .
Finally, there is no feeling quite like the finish line whether it's a HIM or hearing Mike Reilly call out your name as an Ironman. It is a feeling that is indescribable when it happens but much better felt and understood the weeks and months after. Life feels easier as a subconscious self belief takes over. If I can do an ironman, I can handle my job stress or whatever is happening. I am done, but I wish all my fellow triathletes and future finishers a great race. You are my tribe and I will always smile when I see you with your finisher gear!
I've worked with a large number of successful entrepreneurs now and to a person, they concede that their initial idea and plans were not the ones that eventually made their companies successful. Instead, it was quite the contrary. They knew the initial idea was merely the starting point and the actual 'eureka' business model or product would be realized by exposing the initial idea to the market and its harshest critics, paying customers. The initial idea had to solve a problem theoretically, but solving those problems practically in a scalable way would come much later. The timeline, they say, is based entirely on a quick change management culture – the idea that constantly changing was in fact what they had to do. This fostered powerful internal dynamics of no sacred cows, good ideas as winners, and fear-of-change as losers.
There are dozens of articles and books on what I just wrote in one paragraph above. Their message is that simple. The real battles are not with external competitors or lack of money/resources, but with internal culture of becoming comfortable, resisting change, and having no formal way to harness criticism/feedback in a positive way to make those constant changes. This week, keep it simple. Ask yourself when the last time was that you received insightful feedback to you and your team's work. If more than a month, then you need to worry. What are you doing to capture feedback and make changes? What process do you have in place to do this at multiple levels? Invest in these because if you do not, other unintentional cultural attributes will organically surface – boredom, laziness, lack of innovation, and working to clock in the hours. These attributes can be hidden if you are making money as a business, but will be exposed at first threat, when it will be too hard to course correct.
Which organization does not have a well-crafted Mission and Vision statement? Which CEO or leadership team does not espouse core values? Which leader cannot get up in front of an audience with an hour's notice and speak to what leadership means and how to treat others? I frankly do not know of too many that cannot do this. If I changed these questions to "which organization/leader PRACTICES" their values, the list is regrettably quite short. Recently, as a season ticket-holder for Charlotte's NBA team, the Hornets, I had a regrettable negative incident with my 12 year old son during a game from one of the employees. I wrote Fred Whitfield, President of the Hornets, and shared my concerns. He conducted an internal investigation that validated my version. Neither my son nor I wanted to return to watch any more games. Fred wrote me, called me, and personally apologized. I was humbled by the friendly call and sincerity of the conversation. My son, however, still did not want to return as he took the incident personally and was fearful of it recurring. What ensued was a Values-Based approach to resolving an emotionally charged experience. Fred invited Hunter and I to his office before a game so he could speak directly to my son and share similar childhood experiences. He brought in his senior staff to say hello to my son, and then told us an amazing story that could be life-changing for my son. He shared his own personal childhood of negative incidents, how his Dad told him that if he walked away from something he loved to do because someone else treated him poorly, then in effect, that person won. The best response would actually be to follow that passion more and become successful. Success, he shared, was the best response. After the wonderful talk, Fred allowed my son and I to sit court-side and his staff showered us with much love and respect.
I've argued for a while now that the only output worth measuring organizationally for employees is their innovation, defined as a spectrum of performance from "status quo on the left to better in the middle to game-changer on the far right." Yes, we need to have goals to aim for, but these are usually easy to come up with. If in sales, and you sold $1MM last year, it is relatively easy to conjure a target of north of $1MM this year and so on. What is infinitely harder is coming up with the plan or process to achieve whatever goal is set. What are the chances that you will achieve a higher goal if you used the same process as you did last year? That is, if you did things on the left side of the innovation spectrum, near the status quo marker. I do not know the answer to that but surely, it would be lower than if you did things more in the middle (better) or right of middle (towards game-changer). When coaching athletes, we make the distinction between process goals and outcome goals. Which athlete does not want to win or score the most goals? Not one. By focusing on the goal, and not what it takes to achieve the goal, athletes usually under-perform.
There are many good questions to ask intermittently so long as you process them truthfully with unbiased corroboration and data. One of them is to process how much of what you know is outdated? Being outdated does not mean being wrong. I used to have a paper atlas in my car growing up to figure out directions when traveling. Today I use an app in my car that does the same thing, talks to me and alerts me to all kinds of information on my route. I could still use the atlas today. It would not be wrong, but it would be outdated. Why would I not use a more current tool to make me more efficient and better at meeting my goals?
We all know what 'happy hour' is. That time of day after work to meet up at a bar/restaurant and have a few drinks, usually on a Friday afternoon. As we begin a new year in which we are more connected than ever, where there will be no shortage of reasons to not be online 24/7, where there will be more distractions and challenges, let me propose a new 'happy hour' model. I actually like the term 'happy hour' even though it seems more like a 'social hour' and little to do with 'happiness.' What if happy hour were actually a happy hour?
The way I consumed music in my childhood was via the radio, a cassette player or a record (LP) player. I vividly recall consumption changing when it became possible to take music mobile with the walkman. Then CDs came along and eliminated the bulky nature of cassettes/LPs before digital music launched, making it even easier to consume music. Changes in the way we consume in one part of life has led to changes in the way we want to consume in other parts. We want consumption to be mobile, accessible, and tailored to our desires at any point in time. Consuming knowledge that can help us make better decisions should be no different.
As I've written about extensively, I enjoy my work with professional athletes as it allows me to draw many parallels to working professionals. Both are paid to perform to their best ability with the former being so in a microcosm of the performance time compared to the workplace where projects can take months if not years. One of the attributes of successful athletes and teams is film time. I am always impressed at the volume of video made during a game that is then spliced up per athlete or per play and processed for feedback. It is one thing for coaches or teammates to lament about their version of why something went well or not well, and another thing when the play can be viewed in film in hindsight processed objectively like evidence in legal court room. The same is done for opponents to help athletes prepare for who they will be playing against. The film room is a powerful learning forum.
During a college soccer game I recently attended as a sport neuropschologist working for team X, I watched a player from team X kick the ball directly to an opposing player. I quickly scanned the entire field and both coaches/benches. There were multiple interpretations of that play. For the player who made the errand kick, his narrative appeared to be "oh crap. What did I just do?" For his teammates, it could have been anything from "no big deal" to "what an idiot!" to "Can't believe he just did that." For the X teammates on the bench, it ranged from "Common, get it back!" to "Coach needs to take him out." For the X coaches, it could have been "Are you kidding me?" to "We practice those passes every day!" The X home team fans had a sudden gasp of sounds while opposing fans cheered! For the opposing player who got the pass, it was likely "Oh man! This is awesome!" For the opposing teammates, it was a sudden infusion of positive energy and for the opposing coaches I could hear "Let's go!" chants as they starting running down the sidelines. So what's the point here? One play by one player caused a vast array of interpretations and narratives. That play is permanently etched in history. However, the narratives of that play will live for much longer, consciously and subconsciously, more so on team X.
Recently, I observed a head coach of a team yell at a player "What are you doing? Stay focused!" Her player had not being paying attention and the player she was guarding ran by her with the ball and scored. A day later in a business meeting, I observed a CEO tell one of his executives "These numbers are not good. Just go get it done!" Both the coach and CEO, leaders, were right in "what" they said. I call them "What" leaders, not to be confused with "how" leaders.
Jerry Seinfeld has a show on Netflix "Comedians in cars getting coffee" where he has conversations with successful comedians. In a recent show with Dave Chapelle, he visited Dave's high school in an under-privileged part of New York where a recent donation of $17 million dollars led to a significant upgrade to their performance arts theater. Both comics marveled at the facility as it looked like a state-of-art venue that resembled any high-end theater in a major city. Seinfeld asked a fascinating question on stage in awe of what he was seeing: How can someone great come out a place like this? As a coach of dozens of executives and CEOs of organizations, I can tell you it is a question eerily similar what they ask themselves anytime a disruptive competitor shows up in the market, seemingly from nowhere started in a garage with some broke folks: Why did this not come from our highly-funded innovation centers and inspiring off-site exotic locations where have our retreats?
As some on you know I work with professional athletes. I have drawn parallels between athletic performance and workplace performance for many years. The former presents a microcosm in one event of how workplace professionals perform per quarter or year or whenever they are 'measured' for their performance against business goals. One athlete I am working with had a tournament that started on a Friday. From a neuropsychology perspective, I helped her understand that her tournament actually starts 24-48 hours prior to Friday. Those 1-2 days are crucial emotionally and intellectually. On those two days, and this is covered in my books, it it critical to (1) do activities that you enjoy and (2) avoid activities/people that can make you unhappy. This "EQ Taper" allows athletes to fill their "EQ Tank" given that when Friday comes along, and knowing the inherent nature of competition is one of anxiety as mistakes can be severely consequential, so that the brain has enough front-loaded positivity (dopamine) to make it more difficult to get it to make poor decisions and perform poorly.
It is tough to aim at a moving target. It is tough being a parent to growing children. One moment you might be baby-talking and just like that, you might be using complete sentences, and not much later, you might be discussing politics and the meaning of life with them. As a parent, it is a ton easier to see the intellectual growth in children because it is accompanied with physical growth and major milestones such as walking, talking, first day at school, graduating high school, college and getting married. It is a ton harder to see our own growth because the milestones are not so obvious as adults and often associated with those of our loved ones more so than our own. It is normal to not recognize that we have changed too. The things that made us happy in our 30s might be different that those that make us happy in our 50s. That lack of recognition of our growth, and the causes of that growth from positive and negative experiences, can limit our understanding of how our brain is processing current experiences.
There has been considerable debate on what comes first in response to any stimulus, thought or emotion? Some argue that how you feel dictates how you think. If I am sad then this emotion will cater to more somber memories and thoughts, and vice versa if I am happy. Others argue that if you choose to think certain thoughts, you can change your emotions from whatever they are to what you want/need them to be for any given situation. I wonder if we have been debating a moot point. Feelings or emotions are labels we have been using to describe what thoughts are being narrated by the brain. New neuroscience is strongly suggesting that emotions and thoughts are in fact the same, neurologically. How we feel can only be described by thought. If you have labeled an emotion you are feeling as sad, then you are in fact using thought to come up with the 'sad' label. Your thoughts, neuropathways, are dependent on stored memories, not on objective labels, to make those labels. What is sad to one person might be just mundane to one and traumatic to another. I presented this argument in my first book in 1995, Clearing Your Path, coining the 'Theory of Emotional Relativity' concept. Why is it important to re-examine our labels and emotional language? Because the center of out labeling machine, our brain, is an inherently biased and flawed organ. It uses only experiences stored in it, not objective rationale, to label.
Stating the obvious, labels and language provide us with the necessary code for comprehension of just about everything. Language has evolved as our evolution and maturation has. Every year dozens of new words are added to both a formal dictionary and our colloquial vernacular. In college, I never "googled" anything nor as I kid did I "binge watch" any show, for example. I've been writing for well over a decade now on Emotions, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Neuroscience. Our understanding of these has dramatically improved in the last ten years alone, more so arguably than previous centuries combined. We know now that our human body is over 90% fluid, filled with all kinds of chemicals whose total composition is dictated in large part by instant reactions to constantly-changing stimuli from key glands in our body. A certain combination of chemicals (hormones) forces our neurothpathways (thought pattern) to go a certain direction to decipher the stimuli and other combinations go to different places for the same reason. We have been using a bronze-age language to describe these feelings, such as anger, sad, happy, glad, frustrated, joyful, excited, bored, etc. These labels were at best honorable attempts to makes sense of what our glands and thoughts were doing and provided our ancestors with comprehension for decoding visible human behavior. But make no mistake, these are outdated and even inaccurate labels. It is time to learn a new language.


Surrey/Fraser Valley – FVN Fraser Valley News is a proud sponsor of Surrey Cares and their Community Awards. FVN's Managing Editor Don Lehn will once again MC the annual awards gala (which is free ) at the Surrey Arts Centre, November 19.
The new Surrey Youth Vital Signs 2015 study by SurreyCares Foundation leveraged a city-wide opinion survey of youths to inform a broad range of research that identifies issues of relevance for Surrey youth and priority areas to improve their future.
Four hundred youths aged 12-to-24 aided the study and expressed satisfaction with most elements in their city, including growing cultural diversity. 53% of youthful survey respondents said they were satisfied or very satisfied to live in Surrey. However, youths also expressed wishes for improved transit, education and employment to enable more successful transition into adulthood in BC's fastest-growing city.
"SurreyCares is thankful for the involvement and inspiring advice from Surrey youths and partner organizations to identify issues of key relevance to strengthen the futures of youths," said Jeff Hector, Chair, Board of Directors, SurreyCares Foundation.
Surrey Youth Vital Signs 2015 and other resources are available online at www.surreycares.org.
Surrey is a young city that is home to 22% of youths in Metro Vancouver and also home to the largest number of children and youth in BC except for City of Vancouver.
44% of Surrey youths over age 15 volunteer in the community.
31% of survey respondents chose more funding for post-secondary education as top topic for improvement in education. There are 12.7 post-secondary spaces per each hundred 18-24 year-olds in South of Fraser region. This is nearly one-quarter of the rate of 48.7 in rest of BC.
2% of Surrey residents are Aboriginal. Because nearly a third of aboriginals are under 15 years old, the 3,240 aboriginal youths attending school in Surrey are the most of any BC school district.
29% prioritized greater support for youth living on their own.
25% prioritized greater funding for housing for single-parent families.
23% prioritized more long-term living arrangements for youth.
Vital Signs is a national initiative by Community Foundations of Canada that combines statistical data and public perspective into community reports on issues of importance to residents. SurreyCares released the city's first Vital Signs report in 2014. The 2016 survey and report will focus on Newcomers, including immigrants and refugees who are a significant portion of new residents for one of Canada's fastest-growing cities.
SurreyCares Community Foundation strives to make Surrey a stronger, more vibrant community. The charitable non-profit society draws community service agencies together to jointly exchange ideas, support, energy and encouragement to improve the quality of life for Surrey residents. The Surrey Youth Vital Signs 2015 report and presentations will be available online at www.surreycares.org.
Coast Capital Savings is the Premium Sponsor of the 2015 Vital Signs report and one of the largest employers in Surrey. Through its "for youth, by youth" community investment program, Coast Capital makes significant contributions to build a richer future for youth in our communities.
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FILM OPENING & TICKET GIVEAWAY: The End of Love #review #giveaway
OPENING at Facets Multimedia, Chicago
March 15th.
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We had a chance to check out a press preview of The End of Love and we were blown away by the poignant plot and genuine rapport of Mark Webber and his toddler son. The fact that they have an actual father/son relationship and bond makes the characters realistic and the improvised dialogue natural in a way even a great script struggles to approach. It's intriguing to me that Mark pulled this off without a crew, generally in single takes. My husband's been in the film/TV industry for over 25 years as a location sound engineer, and I know what a behemoth behind the scenes production usually is! Mark is on to something vital and dynamic with his hybrid reality show/art film genre.
The End of Love is a must see. This film has beautiful camera work and deals with matters of life and death, the intensity, fear and exhaustion of being responsible for another little life, and conversely the pure creativity and silly joy that spending 24/7 with a toddler can bring. It's tough to grieve and recover from the loss of a loved one, through death or even a break up, and far more so when you've got to mentally and physically keep it together for a child. This is a tribute to that struggle; a coming of age story and a family love story unlike any other I've seen.
When the mother of his two-year-old son suddenly passes away, down-on-his-luck actor Mark (filmmaker Mark Webber) is forced to confront his shortcomings. He can no longer avoid his responsibilities, but he continues to cope with his reluctance to mature, struggling with the demands of being a single father. When he has a meaningful encounter with a young mother, Mark is no longer able to live in the comfort of denial, as this relationship offers not only a reprieve from loneliness, but a glimmer of hope for the future as well.
The End of Love is an intimate and honest slice-of-life portrait of a father and son (played by Webber's real life son, Isaac) in transition. This semiautobiographical drama is an achingly honest portrait which tells a story about the universal pain of loss and the courage it takes to change. With Michael Cera, Amanda Seyfried and Aubrey Plaza.
Directed by Mark Webber, U. S.A., 2012, 90 mins.
Onion AV Club Los Angeles Times RogerEbert.com
Facets Showtimes:
Fri., Mar. 15 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat., Mar. 16 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Sun., Mar. 17 at 1. 3, 5 & 7 pm
Mon.-Thurs., Mar.18-21 at 7 & 9 pm
Grand Jury Prize
for Dramatic Feature
Sundance Film Fest
"The threat [of economic collapse] is brought home by the extraordinary intimacy and tenderness with which The End Of Love captures the relationship between father and son"
-Onion AV Club
"Exceptionally intimate... Told in a loose, surprisingly involving cinema verité style, the film is as successful depicting the smallest daily routines between parent and child...as it is at portraying life's more overwhelming moments"
-Los Angeles Times
"The End of Love excels at conveying the moment-to-moment frustrations and exhilarations of being a dad"
-TimeOut NY
"The End of Love connects and lingers by making incredible effort seem natural"
-RogerEbert.com
DIRECTED BY Mark Webber
Mark Webber (Save the Date, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), Shannyn Sossamon (Rules of Attraction, 40 Days & 40 Nights)
Michael Cera (Juno, Superbad, Arrested Development), Jason Ritter (Parenthood) Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia, Chloe), Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Recreation, Safety Not Guaranteed)
When the mother of his two year old son Isaac suddenly passes away, struggling actor Mark (played by writer/director Mark Webber) is forced to grapple with his ability to grow up.
As he kindles a relationship with a young single mother (Shannyn Sossamon, 40 Days and 40 Nights), he begins to realize that he can no longer remain in denial about the real life consequences his choices have on Isaac (played by Webber's real life son to phenomenal affect).
Set against the backdrop of Los Angeles, The End of Love is an intimate and stunningly honest portrait of a young father in transition between the life he's been working for and the one that's waiting for him.
A Here Now Production
Poor Rich Kids
I starting writing The End of Love right after the relationship with my son's mother was coming to an end. My son was a year old at the time. My passion for making another film was reaching a fever point. I've always been obsessed with realism in film, and I knew my next project needed to explore that obsession.
It hit me suddenly: why not take what I was going through in my life and use that to build a character and create an ultimate situation where I could live in character for the duration of the shoot. I never had a father growing up, and I myself at the time was a brand new dad. One night playing with my son, the story of The End of Love was born.
I rehearsed with my cinematographer Patrice Cochet on how we could film the movie in a way that would not obstruct the real life moments happening. He came over and played with my son and me for a full month before we even got started.
The filming was very experimental in nature. It is mostly shot in real time utilizing just single takes.
We had no crew.
Patrice and I got to the point of being so in synch with one another, I would make a small gesture or glance and
he knew where to move the camera.
In this day and age where millions of people are tuning into reality television, I hope audiences will connect with my cinematic version. In so many ways as an artist, my work is a reflection and reaction to what I'm experiencing in my life. I love leaving a film where I felt a connection with its characters, where I feel I have related somehow, and I believe The End of Love successfully blurs the line between reality and fiction in a way where the raw emotion is so easy to tap into.
It's been a huge eye opening journey for me, and I hope you enjoy the film as much as I do.
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REVIEW: Jack the Giant Slayer 3D #original photos #review
ChiILin' out with ChiIL Mama & Jack the Giant Slayer Giveaways at CircEsteem Circus Arts School Monday
We've been eagerly anticipating the press preview of Warner Brothers' latest, Jack the Giant Slayer 3D, and we finally got to see it last night! It was truly epic and the whole family loved it. This show combines all the elements of great cinema, action packed battles with mythical creatures, unique costumes, brave underdogs, evil underlings, visually stunning scenery, romance, and a princess who kicks butt instead of staying home and being prissy.
Sagezilla, my 9 year old daughter, was so jazzed to have another strong, female role model instead of the comatose princesses of my childhood, sleeping their lives away, awaiting a kiss from a prince. Isabelle is a rockin' role model who longs for adventure and sneaks out often incognito. She's even got a cool mom who gets it, and encourages her to have adventures as a child, and see how the world works, so she can better govern later as a queen.
Sure, the whole premise of man eating giants descending on mankind is pretty intense, and if you have younger kids and you're in doubt, read up, check out on line previews and reviews or see it yourself first. We've found some sensitive tweens have trouble with extreme action films and some younger kids are just fine. Everyone knows their own children's limits best. Jack the Giant Slayer is rated PG13, but we were confident our 9 & 11 year olds could handle it just fine. Jack the Giant Slayer is no more creepy or scary than Harry Potter, Star Wars, or the Lord of the Rings films.
The kids were enthusiastic in their praise for the movie. Sure, it's based on the classic Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale and has other familiar elements. My kids noted the "farm boy" and kids in bed hearing stories nod to Princess Bride, and the very gollum like mini head on the creepiest giant. Yet, Jack the Giant Slayer is an entirely new tale as well, and one that's sure to become a family favorite for generations.
Sage looked at me with a huge grin as the movie ended and said "I may have nightmares for a month, but it was worth it!" She slept just fine last night without a giant nightmare in site. Jack the Giant Slayer is entertaining, enchanting and highly recommended.
Click here to check out our prior coverage including actors, plot, video preview and more.
Bean Stalk Scalers & CircEsteem Shows
WORLDS COLLIDE ALERT: Two shows are opening in Chicago this Friday, that we're super stoked about, here at ChiIL Mama.... Jack the Giant Slayer 3D movie and CircEsteem's Performing Troupe Show, Circus Symphony, for two shows only.
If a plague of giants descended on us, I'd want these super climbers on my side! These confident kids don't flinch at heights, could scale a bean stalk with ease, and rock the aerial arts and acro...useful life skills whether you're battling oversized, man eating bullies or keeping fit and entertaining your friends.
We gave away 400 Jack the Giant Slayer 3D movie preview tickets to our readers and they were gone in a matter of hours. When Warner Brothers offered us Jack the Giant Slayer show swag, too, we instantly thought of the CircEsteem circus stars. Who better to show off the Next Big Thing T's than Chi-town's larger than life circus troupe?!
One of the Circus Troupe kids is even named Jack!
These kids have some super sized skills and they're the most likely to actually be able to scale a bean stalk and take on a race of giants with panache.
CircEsteem Proudly Presents
The CircEsteem Teen Ensemble!
Don't miss 'Circus Symphony'- the 4th annual youth created, directed, and produced circus show presented by the 'CircusTeens' of CircEsteem.
Circus Symphony is a fusion of circus arts and music that explores two seemingly separate worlds as one by combining the unique talents of the CircusTeen group.
CircEsteem's CircusTeen program engages young performers by offering participants employment in the arts. CircEsteem hires the most talented and skilled teens to teach, perform, and mentor younger students and collectively have performed hundreds of shows around Chicago, the United States, and the Globe.
Showtimes are Friday March 1st and Saturday March 2nd at 7pm and tickets are sold on a sliding scale between $7 and $20.
For more info please visit our website!
Circus Symphony – CIrcEsteem Performing Troupe Production
1 Mar 2013 - 7:00 PM
Alternatives, Inc.
4730 N Sheridan Rd
4730 N Sheridan Road
The troupe show is entirely written, produced and publicized by the kids themselves. Come check 'em out. We caught up with them at rehearsal Monday, and they were digging the Jack swag!
Sagezilla & other girls of action need great role models like Jack & the Giant Slayer's Princess Isabelle, who is not only pretty & passionate, but adventurous, active, brave, smart and kind, too.
We adore mighty girls, and know they have a nurturing space at CircEsteem, where boys & girls from toddlers to teens can embrace their strength and climb, flip, roll, and fly.
We adore CircEsteem for their mission statement, too. They're a non profit and keep classes sliding scale. They also offer free tutoring, college scholarships, and work programs to keep circus arts accessible and affordable to all Chi-town's kids, which is a giant sized task, especially in tough economic times when corporate donations are down!
The team kids encompass a huge variety of races, income levels, and areas of town, and form lasting friendships with kids they'd otherwise never cross paths with. If you're in a position to support them by seeing their shows or kicking in some monetary support, we highly recommend it.
If you're looking for circus arts classes for kids or adults or a rockin' summer camp, check them out. Our family has been personally involved with CircEsteem for close to 3 years and couldn't be happier with the experience. Our kids have grown physically, mentally and emotionally, in stunning ways, all while laughing, playing, and having too much fun.
Even my son who was firmly on the shy side, has become a seasoned, confident performer. I've never seen him grin so much and have such a great time as he does at CircEsteem.
Coming THIS Friday.....March 1st!
Disclosure: Thanks to Warner Brothers, Gofobo, and the Jack the Giant Slayer movie for tickets and goodies to review and give away to our readers. You rock! Check out the Jack and the Giant Slayer movie opening 3/1/13. All opinions are our own.
Labels: CircEsteem, Circus Symphony, giveaways, Jack the Giant Slayer, Jack the Giant Slayer swag, movie review, original photos, Performing Troupe Show, photo filled feature
Jack the Giant Slayer Fun At Beat Kitchen #originalphotos #review #gofobo #warnerbros
Jack the Giant Slayer fun at Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids last weekend With ChiIL Mama
Beat Kitchen is THE place to beat the winter blahs, beat drums, and as of last weekend... BEAT GIANTS!
We rocked the Jack goodies at two of the Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids where all ages were happily sporting "I'm a giant slayer stickers". ChiIL Mama's proud to be the press sponsor for the kids' series again this year.
Last weekend we were proud to present The Boogers, Ramones style punk for your punk kin, and Apples Peaches Lemonade, sweet songs for little folk, with kids in the band as well as the audience. Here at ChiIL Mama we give away free family 4 packs of tickets to EVERY Beat Kitchen concert for kids, so enter weekly for your chance to win tickets to some rockin', live all ages shows. Shows are every Sunday at noon and now we're adding some Saturdays at 3:30 as well!
Our Jack the Giant Slayer giveaway table was a huge hit there on Saturday and Sunday.
People especially dug the eco-friendly bags, hats, tees, temp tattoos, screen cleaners, posters, book marks and even creative bean shaped ear buds (perfect for Jack The Giant Slayer apps and free video games on line here)!
Even the mighty Grrrrrrl Scouts took some time off from selling cookies to enjoy some giant swag. They're ready for the next big thing....and can't wait to check out the new epic film, Jack the Giant Slayer.
Click here to check out ChiIL Mama's Jack the Giant Slayer movie review and more photo filled coverage.
The giants are coming... Jack the Giant Slayer opens THIS Friday.....March 1st!
Labels: apples peaches lemonade, Beat Kitchen Concerts for Kids, Boogers, giveaways, Gofobo, Jack the Giant Slayer, Jack the Giant Slayer swag, movie review, original photos, photo filled feature, Warner Brothers


DO YOU KNOW THE 13 BLOODLINES OF THE ILLUMINATI?
I always find it funny when I see videos on Youtube, that decipher Illuminati subliminals in the latest rap and pop (pretty much all the same today) music video. Everyone from Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus and even Will Smith's daughter, Willow, have all been tagged as members of the Illuminati… PLEASE-STOP-SAYING-THIS!!!!!!


THE UPCOMING SEASON promises to be hugely demanding for professional rugby clubs around the globe as the World Cup stretches the calendar close to breaking point, nowhere more obviously than in France.
Toulon president Mourad Boudjellal has come up with a typically outspoken response to the problem, telling French rugby newspaper Midi Olympique that he expects his players to value club over country.
The Guinness Pro12 and Aviva Premiership will both be concluded by the end of next May but the Top 14′s play-offs are only scheduled to start on 10 June, 2016, with the final set for 24 June in Barcelona's Camp Nou.
That means the Top 14 play-offs – which involve a barrages phase (essentially two quarter-finals), the semi-finals and the decider – will all take place during an international Test window, bringing about the possibility that clubs such as Toulon will be missing some star names for those clashes.
However, Boudjellal has other ideas.
I hope that our international players will choose to stay in France," Boudjellal told Midi Olympique. "It seems obvious to me that the clubs, who pay the wages, should have their stars for the most important dates of the season.
Boudjellal has previously spoken about his issues with World Rugby's Regulation 9, which essentially ensures that Test rugby is the priority during designated international windows and that clubs must therefore release players at those times.
Indeed, the Toulon president – who was in the media earlier this week threatening to sue the ARU – has written to World Rugby seeking compensation for losing his players to international duties during the club season.
With the likes of France, South Africa, Australia, Wales and Italy all playing Test games next June, Toulon and several other leading Top 14 sides look set to lose a handful of their stars for the knock-out stages.
Those players who won't be here for the end of the season, we would ask them to look for another club," warned Boudjellal of that possibility.
There will of course be no concern over Paul O'Connell missing the end of the season, as he retires from international rugby after the World Cup, but one wonders what the Ireland captain makes of Boudjellal's high-profile words this week.
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Baker Who Refused to Make "Support Gay Marriage" Cake Says Family is Staying True to Beliefs
Carrie Dedrick | Tuesday, July 22, 2014
#gay marriage
#faith
Daniel McArthur, manager of the Christian bakery that refused to make a "Support Gay Marriage" cake, is speaking out about his family's commitment to their beliefs. Ashers Baking Company of Northern Ireland recently declined an order to make a cake featuring Bert and Ernie and the slogan in favor of gay marriage; the family-owned business is facing legal action for the the decision they made based on their religious principles.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, McArthur said that the decision was not intended to cause distress, but to follow what their faith says is says. "We are not discriminating against gay people. Our church's definition of marriage is clear: It's a covenant between a man and a woman, a 6,000-year-old tradition, which is ordained by God. Sexual activity outside marriage is a sin."
According to McArthur, the family talked about the decision and its potential effects before they declined the order. It was a matter of "what our conscience told us against the risk our response might get some public attention," he said.
As the lawsuit progresses, McArthur says that the family is staying true to their beliefs. "We pray that God will give us the strength to fight this."


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Senior Housing in GRANGER, IN
GRANGER Senior Apartments
Senior Living Apartments in GRANGER, Indiana
Here are the 25 best senior living apartments in or near GRANGER, IN. These housing complexes provide luxury assisted living apartments for the elderly Indiana senior citizens and older adults who reside in the GRANGER area. See complete list of 55+ senior housing in GRANGER, Indiana and nearby:
Brookdale Granger
Brookdale Granger is a senior living facility located at 430 Cleveland Rd, inside 46530 zip code in St. Joseph county and offers senior housing in Granger, Indiana. It has capacity of 66 senior citizens. Brookdale Granger is licensed with the state of Indiana, with license number 17-002556-1.
Belltower Health & Rehabilitation Center
Belltower Health & Rehabilitation Center is a 55 and over senior housing complex situated at 5805 North Fir Road in St. Joseph county and offers senior living in Granger, Indiana. It has capacity of 100 senior apartments. Belltower Health & Rehabilitation Center is licensed with the state of Indiana, with license number 17-013644-2.
Hearth At Juday Creek
Hearth At Juday Creek is a pet-friendly 55+ senior apartment facility located at 6330 N Fir Rd, 46530 zip code in St. Joseph county. Hearth At Juday Creek provides senior citizen apartments in Granger, IN. It includes a total of 147 senior apartment units. It's also a licensed facility, with license # 17-012229-1.
Wood Ridge Assisted Living
Wood Ridge Assisted Living is a senior living community situated at 17650 Generations Dr, inside 46635 zip code in the St. Joseph county. Wood Ridge Assisted Living offers multiple apartment options for the elderly in South Bend, IN, including studio and 1 bedroom. Its Indiana state license number is 17-001148-1. Wood Ridge Assisted Living can accommodate up to 85 senior citizens in total.
Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center
Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center is a 55 plus senior living community located at 5024 Western Avenue in the 46619 zip code. Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center offers Indiana seniors looking for St. Joseph County area apartments multiple housing options. Briarcliff Health & Rehabilitation Center contains 71 apartments for older adults in total.
Portage Manor Health Care Facility
Portage Manor Health Care Facility is a retirement living community in 46628 zip code area, situated at 3016 Portage Ave in the St. Joseph county. Seniors looking for luxury retirement options in South Bend, Indiana will find Portage Manor Health Care Facility as an excellent option. It has a maximum capacity of 144 senior living apartments.
Waterford At Edison Lakes
Waterford At Edison Lakes is a 55 and older residence for seniors located at 1025 Park Place, 46545 zip code, belonging to the St. Joseph area. Waterford At Edison Lakes provides housing for senior citizens in Mishawaka, IN. Its full capacity is 138 apartments for the aged. Waterford At Edison Lakes is registered in Indiana under 17-013331-1 license number.
Sanctuary At St Pauls
Sanctuary At St Pauls is a senior apartment facility situated at 3602 S Ironwood Dr, 46614 zip code. Sanctuary At St Pauls offers St. Joseph County residents looking for senior living near South Bend, Indiana multiple senior housing options. Sanctuary At St Pauls provides a total of 235 55+ senior apartments. Its Indiana license # is 17-000104-2.
Holy Cross Village At Notre Dame
Holy Cross Village At Notre Dame is a senior living community located at 54515 State Road 933 North in St. Joseph County. As part of the 46556 zip code area, it can provide senior living accommodations for Indiana senior citizens who are searching for independent or assisted housing in Notre Dame. It can accommodate 124 senior citizens in total. Indiana records indicate its license number as 17-002668-1.
Creekside Village is a 55 and older apartments community situated at 1420 E Douglas Rd, 46545 zip code inside St. Joseph County. It provides a total of 100 senior apartment units. Creekside Village provides senior living in Mishawaka, Indiana. Its license number is 17-012329-1.
West Bend Nursing And Rehabilitation
West Bend Nursing And Rehabilitation is a senior living facility located at 4600 W Washington Ave, inside 46619 zip code in St. Joseph county and offers senior housing in South Bend, Indiana. It has capacity of 157 senior citizens. West Bend Nursing And Rehabilitation is licensed with the state of Indiana, with license number 17-000246-1.
Milton Home
Milton Home is a 55 and over senior housing complex situated at 206 E Marion St in St. Joseph county and offers senior living in South Bend, Indiana. It has capacity of 62 senior apartments. Milton Home is licensed with the state of Indiana, with license number 17-001141-2.
Vannoni Living Center
Vannoni Living Center is a pet-friendly 55+ senior apartment facility located at 500 Lincolnway East, 46544 zip code in St. Joseph county. Vannoni Living Center provides senior citizen apartments in Mishawaka, IN. It includes a total of 41 senior apartment units. It's also a licensed facility, with license # 17-012688-1.
Tanglewood Trace
Tanglewood Trace is a senior living community situated at 530 W Tanglewood Ln, inside 46545 zip code in the St. Joseph county. Tanglewood Trace offers multiple apartment options for the elderly in Mishawaka, IN, including studio and 1 bedroom. Its Indiana state license number is 17-009669-1. Tanglewood Trace can accommodate up to 149 senior citizens in total.
Morning View Nursing And Rehabilitation Center
Morning View Nursing And Rehabilitation Center is a 55 plus senior living community located at 475 North Niles Avenue in the 46617 zip code. Morning View Nursing And Rehabilitation Center offers Indiana seniors looking for St. Joseph County area apartments multiple housing options. Morning View Nursing And Rehabilitation Center contains 52 apartments for older adults in total.
North Woods Village At Edison Lakes
North Woods Village At Edison Lakes is a retirement living community in 46545 zip code area, situated at 1409 E Day Road in the St. Joseph county. Seniors looking for luxury retirement options in Mishawaka, Indiana will find North Woods Village At Edison Lakes as an excellent option. It has a maximum capacity of 62 senior living apartments.
Sprenger Health Care Of Mishawaka
Sprenger Health Care Of Mishawaka is a 55 and older residence for seniors located at 60257 Bodnar Blvd, 46544 zip code, belonging to the St. Joseph area. Sprenger Health Care Of Mishawaka provides housing for senior citizens in Mishawaka, IN. Its full capacity is 100 apartments for the aged. Sprenger Health Care Of Mishawaka is registered in Indiana under 18-013017-1 license number.
Miller's Merry Manor
Miller's Merry Manor is a senior apartment facility situated at 220 E Dunn Rd, 46552 zip code. Miller's Merry Manor offers St. Joseph County residents looking for senior living near New Carlisle, Indiana multiple senior housing options. Miller's Merry Manor provides a total of 70 55+ senior apartments. Its Indiana license # is 17-000527-1.
Heritage Point Alzheimer's Special Care Center
Heritage Point Alzheimer's Special Care Center is a senior living community located at 1215 Trinity Place in St. Joseph County. As part of the 46545 zip code area, it can provide senior living accommodations for Indiana senior citizens who are searching for independent or assisted housing in Mishawaka. It can accommodate 66 senior citizens in total. Indiana records indicate its license number as 17-013330-1.
Sanctuary At Holy Cross
Sanctuary At Holy Cross is a 55 and older apartments community situated at 17475 Dugdale Dr, 46635 zip code inside St. Joseph County. It provides a total of 168 senior apartment units. Sanctuary At Holy Cross provides senior living in South Bend, Indiana. Its license number is 17-001201-1.
Golden Living Center - Mishawaka
Golden Living Center - Mishawaka is a senior living facility located at 811 E 12th Street, inside 46544 zip code in St. Joseph county and offers senior housing in Mishawaka, Indiana. It has capacity of 87 senior citizens. Golden Living Center - Mishawaka is licensed with the state of Indiana, with license number 17-000045-1.
Grand Emerald Place
Grand Emerald Place is a 55 and over senior housing complex situated at 4010 S Ironwood Dr in St. Joseph county and offers senior living in South Bend, Indiana. It has capacity of 96 senior apartments. Grand Emerald Place is licensed with the state of Indiana, with license number 18-013555-1.
Primrose Of Mishawaka
Primrose Of Mishawaka is a pet-friendly 55+ senior apartment facility located at 820 Fulmer Road, 46544 zip code in St. Joseph county. Primrose Of Mishawaka provides senior citizen apartments in Mishawaka, IN. It includes a total of 45 senior apartment units. It's also a licensed facility, with license # 18-013439-1.
Signature Healthcare Of South Bend
Signature Healthcare Of South Bend is a senior living community situated at 52654 N Ironwood Rd, inside 46635 zip code in the St. Joseph county. Signature Healthcare Of South Bend offers multiple apartment options for the elderly in South Bend, IN, including studio and 1 bedroom. Its Indiana state license number is 17-000124-1. Signature Healthcare Of South Bend can accommodate up to 120 senior citizens in total.
Hamilton Grove
Hamilton Grove is a 55 plus senior living community located at 31869 Chicago Tr in the 46552 zip code. Hamilton Grove offers Indiana seniors looking for St. Joseph County area apartments multiple housing options. Hamilton Grove contains 218 apartments for older adults in total.
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On June 7th, Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly entertained the masses on a warm summer-like evening in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Photographer Ashleigh Lee was on-hand to get us a glimpse into the madness.
Keep up with Dropkick Murphys here and Flogging Molly here.