Chang Hun An

Chang Hun An

Competition Backstage Fall 2014

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Sergi Constance Kimdir?

Sergi Constance, 1988 doğumlu İspanyol fitness modeldir. Çocukluğundan beri spora karşı ilgisi büyüktür. Özellikle beden eğitimi derslerinde başarılı olan Sergi, daha sonra üniversite eğitimini Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri bölümünde tamamlamıştır. Eğitimi sırasında vücut geliştirme şovları onun oldukça ilgisini çekmiş ve kendisini bir anda o yarışmalardan birinin içinde bulmuş.

Fitness modellik konunda kendine güvenen Sergi Constance, kendi giyim markası şirketini kurmuş ve fitness modelliğini üstlenmiş. Hem kendisini hem de şirketini bu sayede tanıtmış. Miami Florida'da yaşamını sürdürmektedir.

Yakışıklılığı ile de dikkatleri çeken İspanyol fitness model Sergi'nin hayran kitlesinin büyük çoğunluğunun kadınlardan oluşmasına şaşırmamak gerek. Aynı zamanda çeşitli vücut geliştirme yarışmalarında boy gösteren Sergi, The Show adındaki fitness yetenek yarışmasının Türkiye ayağında jüri üyeliği de yapmıştır.

Sergi Constance Boyu ve Kilosu

Sergi Constance 185 cm boya ve 93 kilo vücut ağırlığına sahiptir. Bulk döneminde kilosu 102'lere kadar çıkabilmektedir. Yağ oranı ise yılın büyük bir bölümünde tek haneli seviyelerdedir.

Sergi Constance motivasyon videosunu izlemek için buraya tıklayabilirsiniz.

Kişisel Yorumum : "Vücudu tam anlamıyla bir heykel gibi. Kendine has bir vücut şekli var. Onu diğer vücut geliştirmecilerden ayıran da tam olarak bu."

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter friends! 

If you need a little green and springiness hop over to On Sutton Place for this lovely banner. It is a free printable and an easy DIY project. 

It adds such pretty bit of color! Just what we needed. There are a few signs of spring here and there, it is slowly arriving this year.

All of our snow melted over a month ago. but typical of Wisconsin the weather has been bouncing around. But that isn't stopping the daffodils!! I doubt we will have flowers for Easter (not when snow is predicted today!) but by mid April they should be in full bloom.

This little hyacinth hasn't let anything stop it! It was coming up in January! 

The strawberries are sending up new leaves and shoots. 

Welcome Spring!

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Aspendos Antik Tiyatrosundan İzler ve Yansımalar

Her yıl binlerce yerli ve yabancı turist Aspendos'u gezer
de, ‘izler ve yansımalar’ ekibi gezmez mi hiç!. Biz de gittik, tam da şu
zamanlarda, bahar aylarına ‘merhaba’ dediğimiz günlerde!. ama ve lâkin ‘tıpkı
dün gibi geçiveren’, bir başka zaman diliminde Aspendos hep yazılmayı bekleyen bir
posttu.  Bildiğim, normal koşullarda, tarihi
mekânlar ancak karşılaşabileceği vandal bir tahribat

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Weight Gainer Nedir?

Türkçe karşılığı kilo aldırıcı olan bu supplement özellikle zor kilo alan kişilerin kullanılması gereken bir supplement çeşitidir. İçerisinde karbonhidrat ve protein barındırır. Ektomorfik vücut yapısına sahip kişiler için kullanılması gereken ve kilo alımını destekleyen bir besin takviyesidir.

İnce kemik yapısına sahip sporcular, metabolizmalarının çok hızlı çalışmasından dolayı günlük kalori ihtiyaçlarını karşılayamazlar ve kilo almakta zorlandığı için kasları gelişemez. Bu nedenle spora yeni başlayan ve kilo almakta zorlanan kişilerin kilo aldırıcı gainer kullanmalarını tavsiye ederim.

Ne Zaman Kullanılmalı?

Bazı günler günlük kalori ihtiyacımızı karşılayamadığımız durumlar olabilir.Gün içerisinde yaptığımız aktiviteler kalori yakmamıza neden olur. Beslenme ile bu kalori açığını kapatamadığımız durumlarda gainer kullanılmalıdır.

Günün herhangi bir saatinde kullanılabilir. Fakat bir öğün atlayıp "nasıl olsa gainer kullandım" fikrine kapılırsanız hem verdiğiniz parayı hem de zamanınızı boşa harcamış olursunuz. Adı üstünde besin takviyesidir. Hiç bir zaman besinin yerini tutamaz.

Ektomorfik yapıya sahip 70 kiloluk bir sporcunun antrenman yaptığı bir günde ortalama 4000 kalori alması gerekir. Bu kişiler gün içinde yediği besinlerin kalorilerini hesap edip, buna göre kilo aldırıcı kullanmalıdır.

Besin Takviyeleri kategorimizdeki diğer yazılara göz atmak için buraya tıklayabilirsiniz.

Not : Weight Gainer'i sadece beslenmenizin yetersiz kaldığı durumlarda kullanmalısınız. Aksi takdirde bir faydasını göremeyebilirsiniz.

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Tae Nam Kim

Tae Nam Kim

Photo Shoot Spring 2015

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More than Moriarty - Villains in the Canon

Jephro Rucastle and Violet Hunter

A super sleuth cries out for a super villain to test his talents. 

 

That’s why it took the first Master Criminal in crime fiction to (apparently) vanquish Sherlock Holmes.  And small wonder that in “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder” Holmes lamented that “London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.”

 

Despite the unending fascination evoked by the very name of Moriarty, however, the Canon is chock full of other great villains, both before and after Reichenbach. Several showed up in the dozen or so Holmes stories I reread recently in writing my talk on “Gothic Holmes” for the “Holmes, Doyle,& Friends Three” conference in Dayton next month.

 

Unlike the criminal in a whodunit, especially of the least-likely-person variety that dominated the Golden Age of mystery writing, the villain in a Gothic romance is often a menacing figure from the get-go. The mystery then revolves around not whobut why or how or sometimes, as in “Shoscombe Old Place,” even what.

 

Who can ever forget the snarling Dr. Grimesby Roylott bending a poker and throwing it into the fireplace after exchanging a few pleasantries? “You are Holmes the meddler! Holmes the busybody! Holmes the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!” Holmes bending it back after Roylott has left is a priceless bit of theater. 

 

But for sheer creepiness, my favorite villain is not Roylott, or that “most odious person” Jack Woodley in “The Solitary Cyclist,” or the “devil of a fellow” called Sir Robert Norberton in “Shoscombe.” No, the one who would keep me up at night is the smiling Jephro Rucastle in the highly Gothic “Adventure of the Copper Beaches.” Listen to him talk about his son:

 

“‘One child – one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!’ He leaned back his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again.”

 

Later, with his smile hardening into a grin of rage, Rucastle threatens to throw Violet Hunter to the mastiff.  Miss Hunter describes her evil employer at that point as glaring down at her “with the face of a demon.”

 

He is no match for Moriarty in the scope of his crimes, but Alice Rucastle’s father is in his own twisted way every bit as evil.  

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Ton Balıklı Salata Tarifi

Balık vücudumuz için olmazsa olmazlar arasındadır. "Haftada bir gün mutlaka balık yemelisiniz" sözünü duyduğunuza eminim. Balık içerisindeki omega-3 ve daha bir çok yararlı besin maddesiyle faydalı besinler listesinde baş sıralarda olmaya hak kazanıyor. 100 gramında 29 gram protein içeren ton balığı kas gelişiminiz için oldukça faydalı bir besin. Ton balığını tüketmenin birden çok yolu var. Ancak en lezzetli yolu ton balıklı salata elbette. Evde kendiniz de bu tarifi pratik bir şekilde hazırlayabilirsiniz. İşte gerekli malzemeler;

Ton Balıklı Salata Malzemeleri

• 160 gr Ton Balığı
• 1 Adet Küçük Boy Marul
• 2 Adet Domates
• Konserve Mısır
• Orta Boy Soğan
• Yeşil Biber
• Salatalık
• Zeytinyağı
• Limon
• Fesleğen
• Tuz

Ton Balıklı Salata Besin Değerleri

Kalori : 320 kcal
Karbonhidrat : 7,8 gr
Protein :  30 gr
Yağ : 20 gr

Ton Balıklı Salata Nasıl Yapılır?

• Salata malzemelerini iyice yıkayın. 

• Malzemeleri doğrayın ve boş bir salata tabağına yerleştirin. Salata malzemelerine kendiniz ekstra bir malzeme ekleyebilir veya vermiş olduğumuz listeden birkaç malzeme çıkarabilirsiniz.

• Daha sonra ton balığının yağını süzerek - dilerseniz balığın yağını da ekleyebilirsiniz - salataya ekleyin. Üzerine fesleğen ve mısırda ekleyebilirsiniz. 

• Ton balıklı salatanız hazır. Afiyet olsun.

Sitemizdeki diğer Fit Tarifleri merak ediyorsanız buraya tıklayabilirsiniz.

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The Mount Pleasant Inn

Possibly the semi-original Mount Pleasant Inn, maybe

A few months ago I wrote a post about the Montgomery family, and in it promised some additional posts to come regarding them. Well, here's the first one. Towards the end of that original post there was mention made of a tavern situated on the western portion of the southeastern part of the original Montgomery tract. Operating under at least three different names and numerous owners and innkeepers, a tavern was in existence here for more than a century. From the 1770's until the 1880's, the establishment last known as the Mount Pleasant Inn housed, fed, and entertained weary travelers along what is now known as Old Wilmington Road.

As I had noted in the Montgomery post, although the inn was well-known to historians not much in-depth research had ever been done on it (to my knowledge), especially relating to its early history. I am now very happy to say that that is no longer the case. The subject of the Mount Pleasant Inn caught the attention of Walt Chiquoine, and he ran with it in a fantastic way. In fact, I'm going to do something that a writer normally wouldn't do, and tell you not to even bother reading the rest of this post. Instead, go directly here and download Walt's detailed account of the history of this MCH establishment. It's informative, well-written, and meticulously researched. Absolutely well worth your time.

But, for those who can't or choose not to check out Walt's article, I'll give you my own slightly abridged version of the story, which is honestly based mostly on Walt's work. If you'll recall from the original post, John Montgomery arrived in Mill Creek Hundred about 1730 with his three sons -- Alexander, Thomas, and Robert. He purchased a large tract of land surrounding the intersection of Brackenville and Old Wilmington Roads. The southwest portion of the tract first passed from John to son Alexander, then upon Alexander's death in 1746 it went to his son John. It was this John Montgomery who may have operated the first tavern on the site.

Montgomery lands in 1771, after John sold to
Robert Montgomery and John Johnson

As Walt notes, there is no direct documentary evidence of the presence of a tavern that early, but the circumstantial evidence is there. Around 1771 John Montgomery moved to North Carolina, and that year sold his property in MCH. 306 acres of it he sold to John Johnson. The remaining 35 acres, however, he sold to his Uncle Robert. Now, Robert Montgomery already owned several hundred acres of his own land, so the fact that he bought only this 35 acre lot from John seems to indicate that the tavern may have already been there. The only other possibility I can think of is that Robert had the plan of opening a tavern, and this lot gave him something he didn't have previously -- frontage on the main road. And not only frontage, but at a prime spot, too.

The 1777 Broom Map, showing a tavern at location "H"

The earliest direct evidence of a tavern here comes from two maps -- one American and one Hessian -- generated because of the British march through MCH on the way to the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. As seen above, a map drawn by Jacob Broom for George Washington shows a tavern (marked H) at the merging of two roads. The eastern (on this map, top) road is Old Wilmington Road. The western (bottom) road merging with it is what's now Loveville Road, which farther south becomes McKennans Church Road. In the 18th Century this road (on a slightly different path) eventually became today's Duncan Road and continued all the way to Newport. (The other road going down is more like the current McKennans, ending at Milltown, marked by the K.) This Colonial Highway is covered in detail in a previous post also written by Walt.

1777 Hessian map, showing the Harp and Crown

The relevant point of all this is that with the roads merging farther north then, the tavern property was at the split of the roads leading to Wilmington and Newport from Chester County -- the perfect place for an inn. While the Hessian map (shown above) is not quite as accurate, probably owing to the fact that it was done with second-hand information since British forces never made it this far east, it does have one additional detail -- the name. If you look closely at the top of the inset, you can just make out the name Harp and Crown. If this was indeed the tavern owned by Robert Montgomery, he gave it a decidedly Irish-sounding name.

It was around this same time that we get the first reference to the tavern from the Montgomerys themselves. Walt has all the details, but basically Robert's wife's 1778 will specifically mentions "the house where William Willson now keeps tavern". Willson was married to Martha, one of the Montgomery daughters.

After Robert, Sr.'s death, the tavern property ended up with Robert, Jr. in 1779. He sold it to his sister Jane in 1783, but she married and probably moved to Lancaster County the next year. Robert bought it back in 1794, and since a document of the time refers to him as a "tavern keeper" it's logical that he had stayed and run the business for his sister. Other licensing documents also list Robert as the operator of the inn during the late 1790's and early 1800's.

Here though is where we run into the tricky part of researching taverns (and to a large extent, mills) -- although the owner and operator were sometimes the same person, that was not necessarily always the case. There were professional tavern keepers who moved around from place to place running the establishments for the owners, who may or may not have lived on or near the premises. The idea that maybe Robert only owned, but did not operate on a day to day basis, the tavern would neatly help explain the transition to the next owner, William Herdman.

In 1809, Robert Montgomery fell behind on his mortgage and lost the property to a sheriff's sale. The tavern was purchased by Enoch Chandler of New Garden, PA, but quickly transferred to William Herdman. Herdman was a businessman from Newport who later became sheriff of New Castle County. He was, however, not a stranger to inn-keeping or to the Montgomerys. William's father John Herdman died in 1791, at which time he was described as being an innkeeper in MCH, although it's not stated exactly where. In 1795 John's widow Eleanor applied for a tavern license for an inn listed as being in Milltown.

We've found no other evidence of a tavern in Milltown, although it is possible. An alternate theory of Walt's is that John Herdman may have been operating the Montgomery tavern, and Eleanor was continuing the job after his passing. The direct connection between the families came in 1782, when Robert Montgomery, Jr. married Jane Herdman, John and Eleanor's daughter. Additionally, the 1800 Census shows the Widow Herdman listed directly before Robert Montgomery.

So when his brother-in-law's tavern came up for sale in 1809, William Herdman was very familiar with it. Unfortunately for all, and likely contributing to Robert Montgomery's financial problems, the glory days of  Montgomery's Tavern were quickly fading. Remember how the tavern was situated at the split of two major roads? Both parts of that were soon to change. First, between 1807 and 1815 the Newport and Gap Turnpike was constructed, moving the main north-south route through the area away from the tavern. And while Old Wilmington Road was not abandoned, it certainly surrendered much of its traffic to the new and better-maintained turnpike.

Then, a little while later, Loveville Road was rerouted into its current path, moving the split several hundred yards south of the tavern. Evidence for the old road path can be found in deeds for the tenant house shown on the map above. This house sat on what was originally a separate lot, purchased by William Herdman in 1815 from Joseph Ashton. Later tavern deeds place this house "in the triangle" and reference the "now vacated" Newport Road. And on a side note, Walt also found the original 1815 deed that created the lot for the Mt. Pleasant #34 School, which initially sat facing the old Newport Road.

During his ownership Herdman did not operate the tavern himself, but rather leased it to other innkeepers. In 1817, for example, he advertised for a new innkeeper, with the ad stating that Aaron Bracken was at the time the current keeper. It's not known how many different tenants ran the inn for William Herdman, but by 1831 he was ready to be done with it. He placed the ad seen below to sell the tavern, which by then was known as the Mount Pleasant Inn. The ad states that it was formerly called Montgomery's Tavern, so it was likely Herdman who gave it its new name. The Harp & Crown moniker was probably a Colonial Era name.

1830 Sale ad for the Mount Pleasant Inn

The also ad states that the sale will take place at the house of Jacob Craig, on the premises. Craig was likely the innkeeper at the time, and lived in the tenant house. The inn was sold in 1833 to William Addison, put purchased two years later from his estate by Jacob Craig. Craig would remain there until his death in 1844. Over the next 24 years, the Mount Pleasant Inn would go through 10 different owners, the last of whom was William Reese, who purchased it in 1868. Reese would remain on the property until his death in 1910, and under his ownership several changes would take place.

The tavern was still operating when Reese arrived in 1868, but it's anyone's guess as to how well. There probably wasn't much traffic down the old road by then, and Reese's place may have operated more as a tavern for locals, with an occasional traveler staying overnight. He's listed as a hotel keeper in the 1870 Census, but only as a farmer in 1880. Scharf says the inn operated until 1885, but William Reese may have been a part-time innkeeper at best for several years.

William Reese's c.1880 brick "addition"

It was probably during these years, around 1880, that Reese built the beautiful brick house that faces Old Wilmington Road. There is no doubt both from the construction and the basement that this is a newer section than the rear. Or at least, it was until recently. If you look again at the top of the page, you'll see a photo taken just prior to recent work done at the house. The white section measures 15' x 20' and is of a frame construction. This section was recently torn down and replaced by an almost identical structure.

Walt has more details, but the bottom line is that he believes (and I agree) that this was a structure built by William Herdman between 1816 and 1831, and was the "comfortable and convenient two-story house" mentioned in the 1831 ad. The "well of excellent water at the door" is even still there! The early date of 1816 is given due to the tax assessment of that year listing Herdman's property as containing an "old log dwelling house", which would have been the original Harp & Crown/Montgomery's Tavern.

The Mount Pleasant Inn (or either of its previous names) was never the largest of the taverns in the MCH area, but with a history dating back well into the 18th Century it was certainly one of the older establishments. And with the property still intact and its connection to the early and prominent Montgomerys, the tavern first known as the Harp & Crown has a story worth being heard. (And for the final time, you can access Walt's article here.)

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One Man's Trash

I am always trying to get rid of things. I probably go through my closets once every month or two months and throw things away. When I moved into the new home and moved my old stuff out of storage last May, I tried to ge through each box as I unpacked it and to get rid of what I could then. I probably gave away a half a dozen bags full of stuff then. I definitely tried on all my clothes and threw away anything with holes, that was too small/big or that was completely not even close to my style anymore (huge Rage Against the Machine t-shirt....okay, actually I kept that to sleep in but I did give away the Nirvana shirt).

However, I somehow still have a ton of stuff and much of it is things that I have not worn for months or years, is expired or that was given to me by someone and just isn't something I would use (or that I need). So I decided to join Lisa in the February Purge Project. Her goal was to get rid of as many things each day as the number of the day that it was. For example, on the 1st, you give away one thing. On the 19th, you give away 19 things. And so on. That ends up adding up to 425 items. While you may think that there is no possible way you could get rid of 425 items, it is surprisingly easier than you would think!

So many old t-shirts!

I did not get it all done in February. I also did not really finish my sorting and purging (I still have the garage to go through! Ack!) However, I did get about halfway through, and in total so far, I have given away or thrown away 333 items. The majority of the things, unfortunately, are smaller things. For example, my biggest category was office supplies. Next biggest category was accessories. Here's the breakdown.

125 Office
73 Accessories
52 Home
43 Clothing
22 Books
18 Toiletries

I have to admit, I still have a lot of boxes from my move that I have not thoroughly gone through. When I began this purge, I started with a couple of them and either threw things away or put them in the Goodwill pile anything if I had not used in years or in many cases, if they no longer worked. For instance, I had so many old pens!

I will not read these again.

Doing this kind of thing takes time, especially when you are talking about some of the things that carry memories, as they are hard to give away. However, over the years I have become better about throwing or giving away things that I am not using or looking at or enjoying and probably never will. As much as I cherish that tchotchke that my grandmother gave me, I really don't need it and it will either sit in a box in my garage or it will just be another thing to dust on the shelves in my house.

I try to think about three things: Does it work/fit? Have I used it in the last 6 months (or year for certain items)? Is it worth passing on to someone at some point? The first two are easy, as they are quantitative. The last is not as easy and is where I often run into snags. The tchotchke is worthless to everyone but me, who associates it with a memory or a person. However, it sitting in a box is worthless as well. So why not enjoy it or give it to someone who may, whether they are a faceless Goodwill customer or a friend. So that is what I am trying to do.

Next up: the garage. I will have an update on that later!

Do you do a yearly or monthly purge? What strategies do you employ? How many dried out or non-functioning pens do you have? 

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