Our third CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) is happening on July 14th, 2012 and tickets are available starting today. We hope to see you there!

Unemployed? Underemployed? New college graduate? Considering new career options?

Join us for CareerCampSCV 2012!

When: Saturday, July 14, 2012 9AM to 3:30PM

Where: 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita, CA 91355

FREE Admission • FREE Parking

Directions

College of the Canyons Career Center presents CareerCampSCV, a FREE hybrid conference/unconference dedicated to helping you build the career you deserve. The day will include scheduled speakers, ad hoc presentations and breakout ses- sions on all aspects of building your career. CareerCamp is FREE for all adults who want to build or improve their career. Space is Limited. Register for FREE today. For more information, a list of scheduled speakers and additional career content

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Annular eclipse Sunday partial View in Los Angeles!   Just before Sunset!

View safely!!  Don’t look at it directly!  if you don’t have  Viewing glasses…

  

http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/how.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/card.html

“Unsafe filters include color film, some non-silver black and white film, medical x-ray films with images on them, smoked glass, photographic neutral density filters and polarizing filters. Solar filters designed to thread into eyepieces which are often sold with inexpensive telescopes are also dangerous. They should not be used for viewing the Sun at any time since they often crack from overheating. Do not experiment with other filters unless you are certain that they are safe. Damage to the eyes comes predominantly from invisible infrared wavelengths. The fact that the Sun appears dark in a filter or that you feel no discomfort does not guarantee that your eyes are safe.”

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/safety.html

Los Angeles will get a Partial View - 

 This is from The Griffith Observatory page...

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What do flowers & flour have in common?

The Los Angeles Zoo Docents’ Garden Boutique and Bake Sale

Benefiting the LA Zoo Docents’ National 2012 AZAD Conference – an annual conference, this year inviting zoo and aquarium docents from all over the U.S. to enjoy the hospitality of Southern California.

We invite you to support us by enjoying plants that please the eye & sweets and savories that please the palate!

WHEN: Sunday, June 3rd, 1:00 – 4:00
WHERE: In the Garden at 536 North June Street, Hancock Park (No reservations, no entry fee!)

Held with the support of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association.

Information: stonehen@aol.com

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This recipe was originally created as a Snapguide using their iPhone app. You can check out this and other Snapguides here.

If you enjoy this recipe video, please click Like and/or subscribe on my YouTube channel.

Can’t see the video above? Watch “Making No-Fuss Focaccia” on YouTube.

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No Fuss Focaccia – Recipe

1 1/2 cups warm water
3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil (plus extra for drizzling)
1 1/4 tsp salt
3 1/2 cups (14 3/4 oz) all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp instant yeast
2 tsp onion powder
4 tsp Italian seasoning

Spray a 13 x 9 pan with cooking spray then drizzle 1-2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil over the bottom of the pan.

Place the water, olive oil, salt, flour and yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on high speed for about 1 minute. The dough will be smooth, elastic and sticky.

Transfer the dough to the prepared baking pan. With oil or water on the tip of your fingers (don’t use more flour, you want the dough to remain sticky), press the dough into the bottom of the pan, nudging to get it all the way into the corners. Cover the pan and let the dough rise for about 60 minutes, or until it is puffy.

While the dough rises, preheat oven to 375°F.

Once risen, uncover the pan and use your fingers to make dimples all over the dough (you may need a bit of oil on your fingers if the dough is too sticky). Drizzle the dough lightly with olive oil and sprinkle it with the Italian seasoning.

Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until the bread is golden brown. Remove the pan to a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes, then turn the focaccia out of the pan (otherwise the bottom crust will get soggy). Serve warm or at room temperature.

Source: King Arthur Flour

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Jobs.WelchWrite.com

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TechIQ What’s New? is a new show reviewing some of my best finds from around the Internet. I’ll be producing these episodes regularly to discuss those articles, sites and products that can help you  ”Control your technology — don’t let it control you!”

If you don’t see the video above, please watch “TechIQ What’s New? – Show 001″ directly on YouTube

Download “TechIQ What’s New? – Show 001″ as iPod-Ready podcast

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I have been focusing on Shakespeare of the last several weeks — reading books like Will in the World and The Lodger Shakespeare — and now, listening to his amazing podcast by BBC Radio 4 — Shakespeare’s Restless World. The show is currently being broadcast in 20 – 15 minutes episodes and is available in Apple’s iTunes Store Podcast directory as well as from the companion web site. 

Link: Shakespeare’s Restles World Web Site

Here you can find even more information about Shakespeare see photos of the objects mentioned in the podcast and links to even more Shakespeare information.

The shows uses a similar structure to another great BBC Radio 4 show, A History of the World in 100 Objects. Each episode focuses on an object from extensive museum collections throughout the world to highlight a particular aspect or topic. This has included a fancy fork found inside the grounds of the Rose Theater, an amazing Elizabethan-era musical clock, swords, Communion cups and more.

Dive in and learn more about Shakespeare’s world so that you can better enjoy his plays.

Shakespeare’s Restless World By BBC Radio 4

British Museum Director Neil MacGregor presents Shakespeare’s Restless World. The 20-part series looks at the world through the eyes of Shakespeare’s audience by exploring objects from that turbulent period.

A History of the World in 100 Objects By BBC Radio 4

Here you can find all 100 episodes in the series. Although the series has ended, you can continue to listen to the episodes on this page or download them to keep on your computer or mp3 player.

I also subscribe and listen to these other podcast series from BBC Radio 4.

In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg and Thinking Allowed with Laurie Taylor

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It’s Spring here in the northern hemisphere and time for gardening to kick into high gear.

It’s also time for another season of Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6!

For the second year in a row, I have been asked — along with 5 of my fellow bloggers — to be part of this program for Troy-Bilt. This involves doing what we do best — blogging about gardening — but also gives us access to all sorts of tools and equipment from Troy-Bilt to try out in our own garden — and review for you!

Even better, we will all be having giveaways of Troy-Bilt equipment and tools on our blogs throughout the Summer and Fall. Be sure to watch this space and my fellow Saturday6 bloggers to get your chance to win some great stuff.

Where can you find the other members of the Saturday6? Here is information on each of the bloggers including links to some of our articles for the Troy-Bilt newsletter, The Dirt, and some videos we did as part of last year’s program.

I’m looking forward to another great season of the Saturday6 and reading all the great content from my fellow bloggers. Please join me on his journey through the 2012 growing season courtesy of Troy-Bilt!

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Who are the Saturday6?

Kylee Baumle from Our Little Acre http://ourlittleacre.blogspot.com/ Kylee Baumle lives and gardens in Zone 5b in northwest Ohio, where she tames the native clay to produce vegetables, fruits, and as many annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees as she can fit onto an acre surrounded by rural farmland. Author of the popular gardening blog, Our Little Acre, Kylee is a freelance writer and photographer who feels fortunate to have a husband who sometimes joins in on her gardening projects and who loves cats as much as she does. Articles The Unsung Heroes of the Shade Garden Ode To The Bean Videos Pressure Washing with the 2700 PSI Pressure Washer Jennah Watters from Jennah’s Garden http://www.jennahsgarden.com/ After a lifetime of consciously avoiding helping her mother garden, Jennah started gardening voluntarily in 2007, when she and her husband bought their first home. It came with only a few sad, half-dead bushes and one all-the-way-dead mum. (Things are much better now.) Notorious for moving plants several times before being content with their location, Jennah gardens by trial and error, and attempts not to dwell on the error. She is wife to a deputy sheriff and mom to two cats and one dog, and hopes to one day be as good a gardener as her grandparents. Articles Strip Mall Gardening Succulents Videos Succulents Edging with the Troy-Bilt TB144 Cynthia “Meems” Glover from Hoe and Shovel http://www.hoeandshovel.com Cynthia lives and gardens in her beloved native state of Florida only a short distance from the beautiful shores of the Gulf of Mexico. She is a blogger, freelance writer, amateur photographer, Master Gardener, and garden coach. Cynthia specializes in Florida-friendly and native plants, while steadfastly adhering to “right-plant, right place” in her mostly shady garden.  It is her passion to share and teach all she’s learned while gardening in a challenging growing climate and to inspire hopeful gardeners to enjoy their gardens, too. Articles From the Ground Up Structural Elements to Shape Your Winter Garden Gardening Tips for Beginners and Reminders for Veterans Videos “Layering” to Create Garden Pathways Douglas E. Welch from A Gardener’s Notebook http://douglasewelch.com/agn Born in the epitome of small town America – New London, Ohio – Douglas Welch spent many summers digging and planting vegetables in his grandmother’s garden or driving a tractor on his family’s small soybean farm.  Computer work called him to the big city of Los Angeles, but he managed to take a piece of Ohio with him. When he and his wife bought their first home, they inherited an overgrown, 10 year old garden. He has spent his years renovating what was a meticulous Japanese garden into a small piece of woodland among the urban cement.  This double life illustrates his belief that balance in this modern world requires a combination of high-tech and high-touch living. Douglas’ gardening column and podcast, A Gardener’s Notebook, began in 1996 and is available at DouglasEWelch.com/agn. Articles The Lazy Gardener Your garden – inch by inch Videos Wine Bottle Edging Gina Thomas from My Skinny Garden http://www.myskinnygarden.com Gina lives and gardens in the Chicagoland area, zone 5b. One summer day in 2007, she decided to grow an organic tomato – four years later, most of the yard of her small house has been replaced by vegetable and perennial gardens. While she still considers herself a novice gardener, killing the occasional plant, every now and then, she grows something phenomenal or builds something interesting. Her greatest gardening accomplishments are the cedar pergola built over a weekend with good friends, raised vegetable beds she constructed herself, and the trip to Las Vegas she won in a tastiest tomato contest. Her philosophy is simple – grow, marvel, eat, laugh, persevere. Gina is a part-time freelance writer and the cofounder and vice president of Forest Park Community Garden, a nonprofit 501(c)3 dedicated to educating the community on building organic sustainable food systems. Gina chronicles her gardening and DIY conundrums at her blog My Skinny Garden. Articles Starting A Community Garden Growing Peppers in Containers Plant Zucchini after July 4th to Avoid Squash Vine Borer Infestation Videos How To Make Your Own Potting Soil Mark Clement from MyFixitUpLife http://myfixituplife.com Mark Clement is a licensed contractor, co-hosts the live radio show MyFixitUpLife with his wife Theresa, regularly contributes to “Extreme How-To” magazine, “Professional Deck Builder” magazine, AOL’s DIY Life, DIYNetwork.com, HGTVpro.com, OldHouseWeb, “Old House Journal,” and has been a featured guest on DIY Network, Discovery Channel, HGTV and PBS. Articles MYFIXITUPLIFE Quick Tip: Lawn Repair MYFIXITUPLIFE Quick Tip: Growing Greener Grass Videos How To Use a String Trimmer as an Edger How To Build a Compost Bin

Disclaimer

While Troy-Bilt provides me payment and equipment for being part of the Saturday6, the opinions you see here are always my own. I review Troy-Bilt’s equipment as any gardener user would and should. I depend on honest reviews for my own purchasing decisions and I assure you that my reviews will be my honest feelings and opinions, too. 

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This episode of “What Douglas Dug” is the first in a series of shows where I highlight some of my most recently shared gardening items to my Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest accounts. When I share something I don’t often get much of a chance to tell you WHY I found something interesting or useful, so I am taking this opportunity to show some items to you along with a bit of commentary.

Please let me know what items you find most useful in your garden.

If you don’t see the YouTube video above, please view the What Douglas Dug – Show 001 directly on the AGN web site or YouTube.

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