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Wednesdays with...Kat McCourt!

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Welcome back to another edition of Wednesdays with... Today I'm extremely excited to introduce you to Kat McCourt, social media and marketing extraordinaire, year-rounder on the island, and all around food connoisseur. She's one half of Salt Creative, a fantastic publicity agency on Martha's Vineyard (check them out on Facebook!) as well as part of the What's Up Martha team. Oh, and she also spends some of her time working with The Dockside Inn. Okay, I'll stop now because honestly? Kat is EVERYWHERE on island; you can run into her grocery shopping or see her driving her car in the 4th of July parade! Check out this amazing drink she's showcasing from Hooked MV, made with the summer's ultimate fruit: watermelon!
Martha’s Vineyard Drink Spotlight:
Sputnik Sweetheart


 Like clockwork whenever I’m out with my mom or at dinner with the family and I order a vodka cocktail I can predict the exact reaction – “OH! Kathryn!” – then I get a kick under the table….that’s her way of saying, “Kathryn Mary is that a very lady-like drink? Would your grandmother be pleased? How about a pinto grigio or a diet coke?” That’s just my Mom and we can’t fault people for their preconceptions, she just happens be lovely, poised, and very proper (and we all adore her for that).  But I’m a little more undone and more of a firecracker than her – I’m a mix – a mix of my rough and tumble Dad and my sweetheart of a Mom.  Enter the Sputnik Sweetheart.

Why the long lead-in you ask?  Well – the Sputnik Sweetheart is the perfect juxtaposition of something a little tough around the edges, Vodka,  (aka ‘mind eraser’) and something sweet, summery, fragile, and lovable – Watermelon.  When I first tasted this lovely odd couple, made by the expert bartender’s at Hooked – Martha’s Vineyard, I instantly felt a quiet camaraderie with the drink, and soon the creator, Sam Decker, confirmed that feeling for me, he smiles and says, “You know there’s something a little tough and Russian about vodka and we decided to brighten it up a bit with fresh, cold, sweet watermelon.” I smiled back for a completely different reason.  Yeah, The Sputnik Sweetheart made me feel at home. I can just hear my Mom now.  But oddly I think she might be ok with this one.

What happened next was my favorite park of the entire 5 minute “order to sip” experience, Sam handed over the drink and said – “I’d give you a straw but that would just be mean.” – “Why?” I asked – “Well because we chose to not strain this drink….it’s like trying to drink a super think milkshake with a straw – not possible – we’d just giggle from the other side.”  He promptly passed me a spoon.

Sometimes your most favorite pairings are those that are seemingly opposites – they compliment each other like they were created for each other.  Not only do vodka and watermelon match like puzzle pieces but watermelon without vodka now somehow seems, well, wrong. Kinda like food without salt – just not ok. 

I’m secretly creating a Top 5 Vodka Summer Drink list (for reference, of course) and the Sputnik Sweetheart is vying for the top spot.  And doing this research I’ve found vodka really is the spirit of the summer – able to take on any of those fresh flavors we crave in more than just food…Best part?  This sweet lil nugget can be made easily at home, see the recipe below.

After much thinking I’m pretty sure this drink has enough sweetness and charm to woo my Mom in….She’ll be sold. 

Sputnik Sweetheart
Fresh muddled watermelon (almost half a highball)
1 ounce of Ciroc Vodka
1/2 ounce of St. Germain
1/2 lime, juiced
Agave Nectar, to taste
Prosecco, to finish
  1. Muddle the fresh watermelon and add the rest of the ingredients except the prosecco.
  2. Shake and serve with a prosecco float. Cheers! 


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10 Easy Steps to Succeed in Your Online Classes

Congratulations Youve made up our minds to pursue your upper schooling, and doing so online is how to pass if you have an interest in a versatile, studentcentered educating manner. Studying online permits you to pursue different pursuits and attend to different responsibilities whilst nonetheless operating your method towards some extent. However, it will now and again imply that its clean to get distracted. Here are 10 clean steps to verify luck on your online categories.

  1. Connect together with your instructors once conceivable. Even in case you are doing smartly within the category, its extraordinarily vital to increase a rapport together with your trainer. When you do that early on, you temporarily understand what the priorities are within the route, what expectancies the professor has of you and youre going to be motivated to prevail, surer of whats forward and higher ready to do smartly with the impending subject material.

Valuable questions to invite your trainer come with the next

How versatile are you with time limits How versatile are you with grownup freshmen What applied sciences do you employ within the route How to be had are you through e mail and different sorts of verbal exchange How do you put up an internet neighborhood and what are the expectancies for participation in it In addition, since instructors are to be had to lend a hand all over the classes, its all the time just right to have had private touch with the trainer early on. This method, when you wish to have lend a hand, its more straightforward to achieve out and get the help you wish to have.

  1. Confirm the technical necessities of the route. Online categories can also be very advisable for college kids with busy schedules, however provided that they are able to simply get right of entry to the fabrics. It is vital to obviously perceive what the technical necessities are. So, ahead of the route begins or as quickly thereafter as conceivable, youll want to test that your pc will paintings with the entire online equipment, and that you understand how to navigate them. This will be sure that you dont must spend time all the way through the route attempting to determine the generation.

three. Create a time table and stick with it. Quality online instructors create classes which might be clean to navigate and feature transparent expectancies. Having that roughly easytodealwith framework in position will make learning and succeeding that a lot more straightforward. However, although the framework and necessities of your category arent as transparent, youll create a time table and construction, which is able to very much fortify your probabilities of luck within the route. Using equipment equivalent to Google Calendar is a good way to start out. Knowing how your weeks and months glance and scheduling blocks of analysis time for each and every activity or module will will let you stick with a time table.

four. Ask questionsall the time. When you dont perceive, ask questions. When you do perceive, ask additional questions. Instructors recognize scholars who take part, and if theres a participation or dialogue part a part of the grade, then asking high quality questions is helping guarantee your grade on this space. Even if there isnt a participation part, its all the time helpful to invite inquiries to remember to perceive the fabric and are transparent on what is needed of you.

five. Be arrangedand keep arranged. Students whore taking conventional, campusbased classes most often have a constant time table to observe each and every week, through which study room instruction is adopted through assignments out of doors the category. However, for online classes, scholars will have to search out their very own techniques to stick on most sensible in their paintings. It is crucial that you just be arranged from the start of the semester with the intention to achieve success in an internet route. For instance mark task due dates on your calendar, discover a submitting machine for each online subject material and bodily subject material that is helping you stay monitor of the whole lot simply, and shed light on find out about schedules that duvet sections of the route one by one so youve got an arranged tactic to protecting the semesters subject material as you pass alongside.

  1. Have a blank, quiet, and constant workspace. One factor online and inclass classes have in not unusual is that scholars all the time want a spot to review or whole assignments this is blank, quiet, and constant. You can select the place that is for youwhether or not its at a espresso store, a college library, a devoted place of business, or at house. Wherever you select to review and whole assignments, you must make it a constant location that doesnt have out of doors distractions. It is basically key that where is quiet and lets you focal point in your paintings with out distractions.
  2. Do no longer procrastinate. Successful distance freshmen hardly procrastinate. They dont do away with assignments or wait till the final second to write down their papers. Successful online scholars experience freedoms that come with operating at their very own tempo and the facility to finish their paintings in as a lot time because it takes them. On the opposite hand, they know that finishing their assignments is best performed early and on time cramming merely doesnt paintings, and it doesnt will let you retain knowledge longterm. Get began early on getting a success.

eight. Work in your studying comprehension. Successful distance freshmen generally tend to have just right studying comprehension abilities. Most conventional, campusbased scholars concentrate to lectures and take notes, and a few online classes additionally require this. However, the vast majority of distance freshmen are anticipated to grasp subject material thru a large amount of studying. Although far finding out classes be offering video recordings and audio clips, maximum systems require scholars to hide and grasp a considerable amount of written knowledge. If it is a problem for you, it could be very useful to first sign up in a studying comprehension route there are lots of assets online that will help you do that. This ability by myself could make a huge distinction on your luck.

nine. Establish and admire routines that be just right for you. If, for instance, youre employed best within the morning or in brief bursts, then set find out about routines that can help you find out about within the prelunch hours when your mind is contemporary. If, then again, you do best through learning at evening or at the weekends when youll devote nightowl hours or longer blocks in your learning, then make it some degree to take action. Consider how and whilst you paintings best, and enforce a find out about plan that respects the routines that be just right for you.

  1. Connect together with your friends. Establishing sturdy connections with friends and professors is a very powerful facet of tutorial luck, in addition to skilled development. One of essentially the most rewarding reports in schooling is finding out thru collaboration. Forming significant relationships together with your friends and professors can can help you be told extra, keep motivated, and feature an outlet to specific your personal working out of subject material. So, keep attached thru message forums, chat rooms, e mail, and different digital assets. And take note lots of the other people you meet in faculty shall be conceivable process assets down the road so determine connections and keep in contact

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