Yesterday was an emotional and long day! Leaving the Dominican Republic was so hard, we had really connected with our families and Dominican Animators. We hit the road by 10AM for the drive from San Pedro de Macoris to La Romana and the airport. We were there almost 3 hours early! The plane was late in arriving so we didn’t get up in the air on time.
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Home Safe and Sound
Chef Reggie Aspiras’ Summer Cooking Class Schedule March 10 (Wednesday) – My Version of the Famous “Panizza” – All New! – 6 Flavors of Paper Thin Pizza – Seafood, Mixed Cured Meats, Prawn and Sun dried Tomatoes, Paper Thin Angus Beef, Spring Vegetables, Roasted Garlic with Cheese and Herbs – Rolled &Served with Fresh Arugula, Parmesan Dip and Garlic Oil March 12 (Friday) – Lenten Specials 1 – 2010 – All New! Alasakan King Crab Paella, Chipirones – “Baby Squid Adobo, Spanish Fried Baby Squid Calamares 2 Ways with Dipping Sauces, Japanese Carbonara of Soba with Kani & Crab Roe, Shrimp Cakes – Thai & Vietname Style. Bonus: Bacalao – Special Class 2,000 Excluding Ingredients March 13 (Saturday) – Lumpia – All New! – Lumpiang Shanghai – 3 Way Shanghai (Smoked Pork, Pork and Shrimp, Hamonado), Fried Lumpiang Ubod, Mushroom Lumpia, Sweet Potato with Shrimp and Pork Asado, Roast Chicken Lumpia, Lumpiang Salmon
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Chef Reggie Aspiras March 2010 Summer Cooking Class Schedule
This week I spent time working a trade show out in Phoenix AZ. Aside from the great weather and opportunity to spend some time reaching decision makers, I thought it was a good opportunity to assess whether or not trade shows are still a viable marketing tactic. I’ve been to my share of trade shows and quite honestly, some have been great others were barely worth the time.
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Are Trade Shows Still a Viable Marketing Tactic?
I recently made a slew of projects for Better Homes and Gardens using Simply Screen silk screens made by Plaid. The screens are perfect for decorating t-shirts and other items. Click the links to be directed to BH&G for the instructions
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Simply Screen for Better Homes and Gardens
Today’s plugin is called Akismet, and what this plugin do is to check your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and let you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. You will find this plugin most useful, especially when you see some
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I’ve been playing around with a beta build of Firefox's 3.6 browser for some time, and while it’s been completely stable, its new tab behaviour has annoyed me. via Fixing Firefox 3.6’s tab blunder: Blogs – Null Pointer – ZDNet Australia . It’s the one think I don’t like about the newest Firefox release (3.6), opening a link from a tab puts it right next to the one you were reading, rather than off the right end like it used to (which I liked…). Here’s a fix.
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Fixing Firefox 3.6’s tab blunder: Blogs – Null Pointer – ZDNet Australia
Tumblr, the most beautiful blogging platform, just got a little more powerful . You can now upload videos files as large as 100 MB directly to your Tumblr account. The cool thing is that, unlike Youtube where you to wait for the system to finish transcoding, videos uploaded to Tumblr will instantly show up in your blog.
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Now Upload Videos to your Tumblr Blog
I’m in DC this weekend at Yanik Silver’s Underground Seminar 6 . This is my first time attending an Underground event and I’ve been impressed with the quality of content and the caliber of people that it draws
It’s the middle of March, and I have a several very large shoe boxes staring me in the face, which can only mean one thing. It’s tax time. While I am quite determined to tackle this tremendously fun task by Monday lest I go to jail and find my blogging privileges revoked, I can procrastinate
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A little I-15 Corridor market snapshot. (Very little. I’ve got taxes to do.)
I found this really ugly, but very functional earring display at the local St. Vincent DePaul Thrift Store today. It cost me $7.50 and I spent just over an hour fixing it up and making it look good! I am really excited to have this spinning earring rack.
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Thrift Store Jewelry Display!
Whip up a quick front door sign to show off your Irish pride. Materials: Mod Podge Gloss Folkart paint – 644 Grass Green FolkArt Extreme Glitter – peridot Wood plaque – long and skinny Paintbrushes Scrapbook paper – green stripe 2 silk flowers – green Buttons – 4 Chipboard letters – green Hot Glue Steps: 1. Paint the wood plaque grass green
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Make It: Irish Luck Sign
So, Barcelona’s Big Snow disappeared in a single day, more or less, and we were back to spring colours. Boyf and I then ventured out for a couple of days to Girona, which is very different in atmosphere – much quieter, apart from all the building work going on.
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Photos of the Day 67-69
Garden fairies here. After getting “called out” for posting so infrequently last year, we’ve been biding our time waiting for Carol to relinquish control of the laptop so that we could get in here and post something. We’ve waited so long, we’ve almost forgotten what it was we wanted to post about
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Hortish: A Guest Post by the Garden Fairies
The UK’s libel laws, which place the burden of proof onto those who have published inflammatory statements, have had a chilling effect on journalism in that nation, and have led to a closet industry in “libel tourism.” As such, there have been repeated efforts to reform the laws, often led by professional organizations of writers and journalists. A 2008 case, however, brought a new community into the fight: science communicators, drawn in when the British Chiropractic As…
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Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit
When you’re studying galaxy clusters, it doesn’t pay to be in a hurry. Harald Ebeling (University of Hawaii) is an expert on the matter, working with a catalog of over a thousand such clusters in a new study of the so-called ‘dark flow,’ the apparent motion of galaxy clusters along a path centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. Says Ebeling: “It takes, on average, about an hour of telescope time to measure the distance to each cluster we work with, not to mention the year…
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‘Dark Flow’ Pushes Deeper into the Cosmos
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign on Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care. The union, NU'91, is calling the campaign “I Draw The Line Here,” with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.
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Care does not include sex – Dutch nurses’ union – Yahoo! News
From Wholesomebabyfood.com – How absolutely sad and depressing! Another reason to start fresh wholesome foods early on! 3 to 5-year-olds [in this study] generally thought of fast food, for example, as “fun, exciting, and tasty”, and thought of cola brands as fun for reasons such as “the bubbles are fun,” and “lots
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3 – 5 year old kids have brand recognition “fast food is “fun”
Ocean researchers and many conservationists have heard of oceanic low-oxygen or “dead zones” wherein large areas of ocean have lower-than-normal levels of oxygen. To a large extent, these areas are normal or somewhat predictable – deepwater and seasonal movements of water; all part of the ocean’s normal process of oxygen intake, use, and replenishment.But there are more and more signs from throughout the world that these dead zones are becoming more frequent and growing in size. From both c…
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Ocean Dead Zones: low oxygen areas are still growing
The upcoming Office 2010 software will be available as a free upgrade to all users who have purchased a copy of Office 2007 on or after March 5, 2010.
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Get your Office 2010 Upgrade Even if you are Late
Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome You are trying to open a web page in Chrome and all it gives you is this error message – “DNS Error – cannot find server.” You hit F5 to refresh a page but the error persists. You then open an alternate browser, like Firefox or IE, and the website loads up without any problem. So its a Chrome specific issue and has nothing to do with DNS Servers or your Internet connection
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Are Web Pages Not Opening in Google Chrome?