I've mentioned ChefShop.com on the blog before, because they are a local Seattle business that I really believe in. Tim Mar is a stone cold killer when it comes to tracking down incredible food products. He maintains contact with dozens of small producers, and brings in shipping containers from Europe every year, packed with goodies you often can't find anywhere else. A new shipment just arrived, so now is the time to get the coolest ...

The Seattle, Washington office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson redesigned a 1950s mid-century modern home to give it a new contemporary life for a young family. With minimal changes to the footprint, this previously dark, disorganized 1950s suburban home was redesigned to blur the boundary between indoor living and the landscape beyond. A composition of enlongated colored boxes and planar elements organizes and enlivens the house. Circulation and living spaces occupy the resulting zones between. A ...

Last Saturday, Liana and I hosted a small Thanksgiving party for her co-workers + significant others. Deb and Matt brought a ton of booze, appropriately enough, for pomegranate martinis - you can see Matt’s arm in the picture. Emi brought a delicious stuffing that had a great crust on the bottom of the pan… I HATE SOGGY STUFFING lol. Stacy brought a huge bowl of salad that had not only pomegranate seeds, but mandarin orange ...

How could you not want to live here? Doesn't this photo make you think of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, kittens playing with balls of yarn, and the family coming together for Thanksgiving?Yeah, me neither.

While being away in the East Coast last weekend, I did not receive the news of Brenden Foster’s passing last Friday, November 21, 2008 until this morning. Brenden is the 11 year old boy from Seattle diagnosed with leukemia three years ago who stirred a movement of compassion and genersosity. On a recent trip from [...]

Seattle as a city is all about simple style and ever-green romance and the Orcas Residence designed by Pb Elemental Architecture is all about translating that same sense of elegance into a multi-family dwelling. Designed for four families in two floors, each home sports a custom open riser stairs, two master suites with private baths and a roof deck with territorial views. The 1,100 square feet homes radiate with simple and stylish interiors while the ...

When we drive west from Idaho, we’re usually heading toward the Seattle area to visit friends and family. But for restful family vacations, we drive just a little further west to Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. It’s an amazingly diverse place, and we never know what we’re going to find when we go there to explore. A lavender farm in Sequim, Washington Last summer we spent a day in the area around the town of Sequim (that’s ...

炒股票 上网聊天 看《色|戒》 南海网11月24日报道 21日，记者在五常市政府大楼内采访时发现，上班时间部分公务员忙里偷闲上网聊天、看电影、炒股票。 当天10时35分，记者来到位于五常市亚臣路的五常市委、市政府办公楼。六层高的办公楼内有包括五常市委宣传部、组织部，市发改局、人事局、市政府政务值班室等机关。 “ ......

Last weekend I went back to school--to learn how to make pizza. I specifically had major issues with making pizza dough that didn't turn into a leathery brick. Mixing amazing toppings together and baking them in a real brick oven in the front yard was quite the foodie experience. The best part was sharing all our creations as they were completed! I'm making home made pizza tonight and the dough is looking very promising! Culinary ...

OSD Monitors is a tool for those who prefer simple window managers and don't want precious screen space cluttered with panels, icons, etc. It uses the xosd library to display various textual monitors (clock, CPU usage, net, swap, disk, etc.) transparently at a fixed position on the screen. It has a very low memory and CPU footprint.

App Store fornisce le applicazioni ufficiali per iPhone dividendole tra quelle a pagamento e quelle gratuite: l’acquisto di una App a pagamento permette naturalmente all’acquirente, qualora la avesse scaricata, di scaricarla nuovamente. Ovviamente senza pagare. Stessa cosa per gli aggiornamenti: finora non sono noti casi documentati di aggiornamenti a pagamento. Qualora l’applicazione fosse stata acquistata gratuitamente e poi la stessa fosse divenuta a pagamento, l’aggiornamento è sempre gratuito. A questo proposito, l’immagine di apertura del ...

رسانه‌هاي اسرائيلي با اشاره به اسناد موجود (و احتمالا موهوم) مدعي هستند كه پيشينيان يهود در پنج قرن گذشته، موجب آباداني مناطقي از آسيا شده و اين مناطق هم اكنون در حوزه كردستان است و بايد مالكيت آن به مالكان اصلي، يعني نوادگان آنها كه هم اكنون در اسرائيل هستند، بازگردانده شود.

羊群是一种很散乱的组织，平时在一起也是盲目地左冲右撞，但一旦有一只头羊动起来，其他的羊也会不假思索地一哄而上，全然不顾前面可能有狼或者不远处有更好的草。经济学里经常用"羊群效应"来描述经济个体的从众跟风心理。一般典型的表现在企业的市场行为和金融市场的投资行为。那么就题目来说，为什么以羊群效应来形容泛成功学呢？ 首先，我们来看下新浪网排在前十位的博客。 老徐风光的日子也随着金融危机的到来而结束，随着中国股市的大跌而流量也减少。而那些写股评的博客异军突起，与股市的繁荣程度成反比，股市越是熊，他们的博客也就越容易出名。就前十名的博客来看。娱乐评论博客，表现在韩寒、老徐、极地阳光，已经今非昔比了，当仍由于此前的基数还是牢固在前十。而读书博客当年明月能排在前十，却是我始料不及的。除了这四个博客外，其他的六个博客都是股评博客。徐小明的博客更是将近三亿的流量远远排在首位。而wu2198、老沙、理财分析师、封起D日子、股市风云拥有一亿多两亿多流量的前十博客，都是股评，分析大盘走势。而追溯到排名前五十的，这类型的博客还会大增呢。 那么这说明什么呢？我们从现实社会的例子就可以看出来了。你有没有在书店里看到那些诸如教你如何一夜暴富，教你如何在职场里获得老板欢心，教你如何如何在三个月里赚到100万等等的书籍大大畅销；你有没有看到你身边的人无论是蓝领或者是父母工人也许在讨论着今天应该买哪一个六禾彩狠赚一笔，那些久经职场的白领或者金领因为错过某某成功大师的讲座而捶胸顿足；你有没有看到学生们在讨论着记忆大师说的如何一个月记一本字典，如何培训自己然后更好的在毕业把自己推销出去......这些都说明了当代社会人对成功的过分渴望，对成功的途径不择手段以至于来不及思考事情的可行性，而当一个人偶然的证明成功也可以是一夜的事情，于是大部分的羊群都跟上去了，因为他们想着这样的偶然也有概率发生在自己的身上。就像他们认为自己穿上橱柜窗模特的衣服也有同样惊艳效果，而现实是不可能的。 试想成功大师们能一夜暴富，他们还用得着四处兜售观点去挣钱吗？试想股评家们倘若自己掌握了大盘，早就自己赚透了，还用得着上电视混媒体来指导迷津吗？试想培训大师们教你如何把自己推销出去的同时他自己又何尝曾经不饱尝被人冷落的苦楚？本来连小学课文都写的很教育的很清楚了，成功是需要勤奋努力，踏实上进的。我想那些一窝蜂涌向成功另外一条道路的人们肯定是知道这个道理的，但就是由于怀着一颗侥幸的心理，认为所有人的成功均可以复制。肯流汗水浇来田野千年绿的成功固然令人喜悦，但不劳而获或者少劳而获的成功则更让人欣喜若狂。这是人的天性，人人都期望不劳而获，但当一个社会大部分人有这样的心里并急切的表现出来而又有大部分人跟风的时候，就不正常了。大家都中了成功的毒。 写过《过度追求成就者：身不由己学子的秘密生活》的罗宾斯说："如果孩子们过度追求成功，那么，无论他们获得多大成就都感到远远不够。"说的就是这个道理，本来成功对于每个人来说都应该是不同的的理解的，一千个人应当有一千个成功看法，一个满脸皱纹的老人把自己的子女养育成人，他虽然劳累了一辈子也或许身无分文，你不能说他不成功。一个学生去支援山区建设，虽然他风尘仆仆钱财毫无，但你能说他不成功吗，即使你认为是不成功，只要他认为有价值了那就是成功。 “不经一番寒彻骨,哪得梅花扑鼻香”，“天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为”......成功应当是这样来的，一朝赢得生前身后名的有几个。再来看看新周刊在《有一种毒药叫成功：成功学的泛滥与迷失》中的忠告，在成功学的羊群中的你，能明白吗？ 个人奋斗很可嘉，实现自我很诱人，名利滋味很甜美。但一个社会结构中，成功人士不过1%，且离不开长期实干和机遇。若成功一学就会，且成王败寇，成功人士 光荣，非成功人士可耻，那么，社会中99%的大多数还怎么活下去？生活中有许多美好事物和价值，是成功学课程所蔑视、给不了的和教不会的。 当全民成功变成狂热风潮，成功上升为绝对真理般的、人人趋之若鹜的主流价值观，成功学就是一粒毒药，而信奉成功学的人就沦为牺牲品。

When I switched over to BE my previous experience told me to create separate .aspx pages for stand-alone content. I didn't see the need to use the BlogEngine Pages feature. What I found out when doing things this way was that I couldn't use all of the theme and events that come along with the BE master page. So I reluctantly switched to using BlogEngine BlogEngine Pages instead of adding separate .aspx. After running this ...

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Il y a un problème au PS. Vraiment. Ce problème vient des militants... Le PS, avant même cette tragi-comédie du Congrès de Reims, était déjà mal en point. Tout le monde le disait. A mon avis, tout pouvait encore être sauvé, mais il fallait trancher dans le vif, faire un choix clair. Les cadres ayant été incapable de le faire, c'était donc aux militants d'agir. Comme pour le vote des motions, les militants du PS ...

Pb Elemental Architecture has recently completed this four unit multi-family project located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Each 1,100 sq. ft. home features concrete radiant flooring, custom open riser stairs, two master suites with private baths and a roof deck with territorial views. Visit the website of Pb Elemental Architecture - here.