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First, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to jump through hoops just to get a meeting with US President Barack Obama. When they did meet on Monday, the contents of their talks were either so negative or so classified that a near-total media blackout was placed on the gathering.
Netanyahu left Israel for Washington on Sunday to attend and address the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America. Weeks earlier, he had requested to meet with Obama during the visit, a typical occurrence any time an Israeli leader travels to the US. But this time, the Obama White House made Netanyahu sweat it out till the last minute before, as media reports put it, "grudgingly" scheduling a meeting.
The White House's apparent reluctance to invite Netanyahu was an indication to most Israelis that relations remain tense between the Obama Administration and Jerusalem.
Then things got really curious when the White House totally broke protocol by barring the media from the meeting. Following the two-hour get-together, Netanyahu left the White House immediately without speaking to reporters, and promptly cancelled a press conference that had been scheduled for Tuesday. Instead, he hopped on a plane for Europe.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who attended part of the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, also cancelled several radio interviews scheduled for Tuesday.
Speculation was rife in Israel that the unusual secrecy surrounding the meeting could either mean that Obama tried to strong-arm the Israelis to surrender to Palestinian demands and was firmly repulsed, or that the meeting focused on an impending Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
In remarks to Israel's Ynet news portal, attorney Dov Weisglass, who served as bureau chief to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, added a third option - that Netanyahu had agreed to far-reaching concessions to the Palestinians and wanted to keep the details under wraps for now to avoid a political storm at home.
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Okay...the truth is out...I am much more in my element creatively cooking...much more so than baking and you can probably tell it from my posts! This recipe is from my vegetarian days and originates from a recipe book from that era. I have liberally recreated the original recipe to suit my family tastes and my own preferences. If you are not vegetarian you may chose to serve a meat with this dish...ours was pork schnitzel. It is a bit of work...but sooooo worth it. If you like savoury...you'll like this dish. I even brought the left-overs in to work!!
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 med. white onion finely chopped
- 1 cup celery finely chopped
- 8 cups of whole grain bread cubes (I cheat and buy them pre-seasoned in the bulk section but if you don't then use the full amount of spices below. If you DO buy them already seasoned...please 1/2 the spice amounts or it will be toooo strong.)
- 2 tsp ground sage
- 1 tsp savoury
- 1/2 tsp dried marjoram
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp celery seed
- 1/2 tsp salt (I NEVER use salt unless I have to in baking...you can leave this out)
- Fresh ground pepper
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley (dried will do too) minced
- 1 vegetable bullion (or use two cups of homemade /bought low sodium (that is me again with the low sodium) chicken broth. If you use already constituted broth you won't need the water below.
- 2 cups boiling water
- About 10 medium to small potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes (8 - 10 cups.
- 1 stalk celery with leaves
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 large clove garlic
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- salt and pepper to taste
While potatoes are cooking, you can start the stuffing. Melt the butter and saute the onion, celery. Saute until they are softening. Add your bread cubes, and spices mixing well. Add the bullion in 2 cups boiling water...or your heated broth. Mix well and steam covered over very very low heating for about 15 minutes or so.
Turn your oven on to about 350. In a separate small saucepan melt the butter and add the cream. Heat until it is hot without boiling. Mash your potatoes (having drained and removing the garlic and celery) in a food processor or normal way you prepare. Add the butter cream mixture and salt and pepper to taste.
Put the stuffing in an oven-proof casserole dish. Top with the mashed potatoes. Bake in oven for 30 - 35 minutes (depends on the depth of the casserole dish) until crust is golden. While it is baking prepare the Mushroom Cream Gravy.
Mushroom Cream Gravy:
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 lb mushrooms, sliced
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 veg bouillon (again I use homemade/canned low sodium chicken broth) and then eliminate that water)
- 2 tbsp heavy cream
- 1/4 tsp garlic salt
- salt to taste (come on...ya don't need it!)
In the same frypan melt the other 2 tbsp butter. Add the flour and stir with a whisk to combine. Add the mushroom liquid and continue stirring with a whisk as the gravy thickens. Add the water and bullion stirring continuously. Add the cream and salt and garlic. At this point you can add the mushrooms again or you can serve them separately over or on the side of the Shepherds Pie. This is not a lot of work...just a lot of words and it is delish!!!!!!!

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- Clubbing Down
Florida swing puts Rory's under the microscopeWill Tidey February 27, 2013
The home of golf might be St Andrews, but the home of professional golfers is Florida. No fewer than 13 of the current top 25 in the world have bases there according to the PGA Tour, including Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood and recent arrival Rory McIlroy - who in December picked up a modest £6.7 million, six-bedroom house with all the trimmings in Palm Beach Gardens.
McIlroy will defend his Honda Classic title on home turf this week, at a resort just eight miles from his new pad. It was the victory 12 months ago that put him atop the rankings and saw him shrug off a charging Tiger Woods on the final day. Over four rounds in the 60s, McIlroy took on the testing PGA National course with a composure that belied his years. It was a commanding, coming-of-age performance and fully befitting of his elevation to world No. 1.
He's back 12 months later bolstered by a second major win, a second Ryder Cup success and having signed a not-too-shabby endorsement deal worth $250 million. McIlroy's exponential rise continues and with it has arrived the fierce attention that has long fallen upon his Nike stablemate Tiger Woods - with whom he shared 36 holes in a gentleman's match on Sunday. Have a good week and talk turns to breaking Jack Nicklaus' haul of majors; have a bad one and you're in the midst of a slump.
Just three competitive rounds into 2013 and McIlroy has already got us worried. His two 75s and a missed cut at the Abu Dhabi Championship were followed by an opening-round loss to Shane Lowry at the WGC Match Play. The public enquiry into McIlroy's mini-malaise has begun in earnest.
His driving was off in Dubai; his iron-play in Arizona. The most obvious conclusion to draw is that McIlroy is struggling to adjust to his new Nike clubs - undermining the gazillions they're spending on him with every misplaced shot and prompting the suggestion the deal could prove (nearly) as expensive for McIlroy as it is for Nike. But McIlroy, unsurprisingly, isn't about to blame his new financiers for his form.
"It's still an adjustment period," McIlroy said this week. "It's more about how I'm swinging the club. That's the real concern." McIlroy's also talked about his timing being off, something he's working on correcting with his swing coach Michael Bannon.
Nick Faldo isn't convinced that's the problem. Discussing McIlroy's equipment switch on the Golf Channel last week, Faldo warned it was "a very dangerous time" for the two-time major winner. "I don't feel when you've climbed that wonderful climb to world No. 1 that you should be compensating and trying to find a way for your equipment to fit you," Faldo said.
McIlroy bit back, saying: "Nick Faldo doesn't know how I feel over the golf shot and I don't know how he felt." But he also came into the WGC event having changed to a different Nike driver and a different putter from the ones in his bag in Abu Dhabi - a clear sign the adjustment process is still in session.
Whatever the explanation for McIlroy's slow start, we can expect the analysts to be poring over his every shot this week. The good news for Nike is that means their clubs getting maximum exposure; the bad news will come if McIlroy misses a cut on a course he took to pieces with his old set a year ago.
The start of the Florida swing is all about McIlroy's swing.
Grip it and rip it
The European Tour visits the Copperleaf Golf and Country Estate for the Tshane Open in South Africa this week, where the field will take on the longest par-five in Tour history. The 7,791-yard Ernie Els design includes a 685-yard 4th - one of three epic par-fives that break the 600-yard barrier. A fourth is a putt short at 597 yards.
Darren Clarke labelled the layout "brutal", but with the distances players are driving these days - Seve Benson leads the European Tour with an average of 307 yards from the tee - there's really no alternative to making par-fives play in the way they were intended. It's not ideal for fans schlepping around the course, but at least they'll get to see some close approaches from wedge territory.


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Nick Grimshaw (Harry's openly gay best buddy) and a few others in the UK press have already basically outed Harry a number of times...you just have to read between the lines of their humor.
Ask Ed Sheeran (Harry's other best buddy) about the dating Beard Swift, as he's been asked a number of times, and he clearly has the look on his face that it's total bullshit, like "if that's what you believe".
Their family members (Louis and Harry's) and a few of their former friends have also outed them (cleverly) on twitter. People just haven't picked up on it..or like in the ID thread here on JUB, they just totally deny it or don't want to see it. (But this is the board that thought Ricky Martin was still straight literally up to the week that he actually came out).
90210's Matt Lanter and his "fiance" are being quite a bit more public with their relationship now on twitter and instagram. Def putting it more on display.
But according to one of her tweets, she gets "so frustrated" over the rumors about her hubby...yes, because what does that say about you that you go looking them up...lol?
Twinkies...it's what's on the inside that counts!
I don't know if he is or not, and my gaydar is totally dysfunctional where he is concerned, but lawdie I want him ... Matt Czuchry from "The Good Wife" really drives me mad with lust. The first interview I saw of him, I felt that he might have been on the bi-side, but the next one he totally came across as comfortably straight.
Lol ... but who knows [for real] ... ha ha, he IS an actor!
Seann William Scott was supposed to get married last fall.At the premier of American Reunion,Seann said that he would get married to his girlfriend in the fall.But,nobody heard about Seann been married yet.
Could it be a charade?
Does Seann getting married was only to hide his homosexuality?
Is Seann William Scott gay?
so true.....the good wife/ and cbs sunday night/ is my favorite show...very well written and acted...........................i've heard gossip around town that, matt is gay...but, i have to say no hard facts, yet....he strikes me as gay....his performance seems a bit stiff, too-too....just to butch him up....and his pursed lipped smirk, it's become his unconscious trademark, is so prissy/ to be honest, conversley ,so is alan cummming's smirk/......but, i'm no expert....
however, in the new storyline with nathan lane, i thought there was a direction in which, matt's character was warming to nathan's in a way, which would have his character, declaring his gayness......
....the show is actually, really straight arrow....a bit of a throwback ,to the closet days...a happily heterosexual world...../ even possible gayness, when approached, is met with, politically correctness....their bi-ness is different/..............or the writers are afraid of fully-rounded gay characters....maybe the producers, athough, jewish, are at heart waspy right wing religious types.....................they've tried to sex up the show...for the naughty straight characters/ shit, even the grandmother has gotten all hot and involved with her male attendant/...but....it's all turned storyline...not really believable.......
..the male writer/producer a mr. king, has expressed that the character ,kalinda, is a fantasy for him...........a little kinky there mr. king................the character is an amazing woman......strong, a bisexual, into bondage ..a fuck puppet with the guys.......butch with the ladies, and fast with a gun..........his fantasy cartoon blow up doll.....but the actress has tricked him....she's no cardboard bi.....she fills her character up with so much humanity, real emotion, life.....she's amazing..........
but, back to matt, if you are reading...i live in LA...please stop by for a drink and some nosh....haha....
Chace Crawford
Zac Efron
JC Chasez
Joe Jonas
Zayn Malik
Colton Haynes
Tim Tebow too. Typical self-hating pseudo-religious guy who probably really wants it up the ass.
After Taylor Lautner's latest pathetic attempt at bearding, I'd add him to the list
"Don't wait for the world to be ready. Find what you're looking for."
Joey Graceffa
Is she on again whenever there are paparazzi around?
Add John Cusak to the list.. In his early days as an actor John Cusak and Kevin Spacey were roommates.
Someone who was supposedly an actor in Hollywierd was asked what percentage of actors were gay. He guessed about 20%. He then added "but if you asked me how many actors will fool around with another guy, I'd say most of them."
20% seems awfully low based on the theatre departments I saw in high school and college.
I'm just assuming that the proportion of people I've met whose primary interest was in acting that turned out to be gay would probably resemble the proportion of actors who actually developed careers that would also turn out to be gay.You're assuming that most artists are gay, most artists find their way to the entertainment centers and most artists dominate the entertainment business.
I agree that there is a lot of wishful thinking in many of these. Here is what I believe to be true as gays. Anyone can have bi moments...
Cole Sprouse
David Archuletta
Ricky Ulman
That is all I can say without edit and without any wishful thinking added in.
Where's that video of Zayn? haha
Lady Gaga.
Some just fell into the business or some pursue it for other reasons that have nothing to do with having a creative background or passion for the arts. So, even if you're hypothesis had a strong basis, it would still be inaccurate for those aforementioned reasons. Personally, most actors I've met are not gay...or they would not openly admit it.
On the other hand.. I don't really understand why you're in this thread if you think most actors are straight, which is fine. But you must understand that people in here don't care about your objections, because we want to discuss actors being gay. So if you don't like it, why don't you just ignore this thread? There's hundreds of actors that I don't care about and you don't see me going into those threads to say "ewww, why do you like him, he's so ugly". I cannot stand trolls who just derail threads all the time. Fine, you think most actors are straight, we get it. Now please leave us alone to discuss possible gay celebrities, which is what the thread is for.
I'm in this thread because I can be in this thread and there is absolutely nothing wrong with my statements. I did not personally attack anyone and I simply stated my observations from being in Los Angeles. I'm not saying that what I say is the absolute truth. However, I am trying to offer a more balanced, non-stereotypical perspective. If anything, most of the people to whom I talk and I've encountered, many of the gay men tend to have behind-the-scenes jobs. This is not saying that there are no gay or bisexual men who are in front of the camera or that they are not visible.
I fail to see how your personal experiences of actors you've met not being gay are any more valid or representative than mine of a good proportion of them being so are. What's your hypothesis, that somehow only the straight men who pursue an acting career go on to success and the gay ones are culled out? The rising tide of coming out announcements now that negative consequences are lessening strikes me as a good indication of the true state of affairs.
"I'm along for the ride." I'm sure you are, Matt, I'm sure you are. Google 'Matt Lanter wedding date' & click the first article (US Weekly). Scary stuff.
Twinkies...it's what's on the inside that counts!
What I am saying is trying to assume that actors are gay, bisexual, or straight based off a stereotype does not lend to any credibility. For example, all or most doctors are snobbish and arrogant because of their experiences going through medical school. In addition, what I am trying to say is that if you really wanted to cling to that belief, how do you explain all the people who pursue entertainment (or just acting specifically) who did not and do not come from theater? Would that belief still apply?
Tom Hady
Daniel Craig
You should see the kind of super fundie Christian stuff she follows on twitter (NOT exactly gay-friendly stuff). Hardcore evangelical midwestern type...
Also, Matt seems to now only hang with his other Christian friends (for the most part) that all go to this certain church in Hollywood (that Chelsea Lately's Ryan and E news' Jason Kennedy, Dez Duron, etc.)...compared to his earlier, unknown Hollywood days when he was seen and photographed with, shall we say, a very different circle of friends. Interesting...
And look into his background, family, etc...
Got a weird feeling Javier Bardem is gay or bisexual
Seann William Scott ends engagement with Victoria's Secret model Lindsay Frimodt
There's your answer to that...
harry shum jr
Some obvious ones you can speculate on that I think are gay...
Robert Pattinson (this guy is not aging well at all)
Seann William Scott
Taylor Lautner
Elijah Wood
Chace Crawford
James Franco (at least bisexual)
Zac Efron
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Andy Samberg (the lack of details in his personal life is what drives this speculation)
^your list makes me hard
Hmmmmmmmmmmm....first time I read something which indicates Andy Samberg would REALLY appreciate a "Dick in the Box"!
well, this might not be a celeb who you guys care about -- cause i guess he's not really a celebrity, or at least he doesn't try to be. but i have it on very trustworthy authority that the "golden boy" of canadian hockey, Sidney Crosby, is gay. i have a friend who attended a big fundraising dinner party event thing at the fairmont hotel in toronto - he's a successful stylist up here, but very much on the masculine side. like, most people never really know he's gay. i've actually been with him at a bar when a woman came up to us and gave him her number. haha. regardless, he met Sidney Crosby at this party, during the cocktail reception afterwards. literally just went up to him to say what a fan he was and how cool it was to meet him, etc. regular sports fan stuff. he never thought for a second that Sidney Crosby was gay .. until they started talking and he got "the vibe". he initially thought he was reading too much into it, too much "wishful thinking" or whatever. but then later in the evening Crosby came up to him at the bar and started talking to him again. this time they were a few more drinks in and eventually it led to my friend being invited up to Crosby's room in the hotel for a nightcap. they didn't fuck, apparently. just exchanged blowjobs. but he says that Crosby had a nice uncut dick and that he was a complete gentleman. had room service bring my friend some food for a snack and even ordered a car to take him home after.
so, believe what you will. but this is really my only "closeted celeb" encounter. and not even mine, hahaa. but a very close friend, someone i know wouldn't bullshit.
^ I can buy that. I've heard/read other tidbits about Crosby as well. I mean, the guy has basically never had a girlfriend. One thing he does have is a hugely oversized ass. I'm sure part is genetics & part is working out. Makes sense that skating would develop the glutes. I've read he has to special order jeans & pants. Seems like he would make a great bottom. I would be far too intimidated to fuck Sid the Kid. I'd rather he fucked me. I've heard he's pretty good at putting the puck in the net. Your friend's report did claim he had a "nice uncut dick". Yum.
Not surprising about the simple exchange of blowjobs. I knew a couple of guys who had been dating for over a year, lived together, but never fucked. We never found out why. I suppose it can happen with two tops, two bottoms, or two guys who just don't enjoy fucking (I know, hard to believe!).
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News, reviews and photographs of Modern Fashion Dolls including Kingdom Doll, Fashion Royalty, Sybarite, Tonner Doll, Gene Marshall, Barbie and my own experiences as a doll collector.
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Joe Tai's Doll 16 Inch Body
The other features of note are not hard to see. They're right out there - large breasts standing at attention. There is a great deal of body blushing all over including the palms of the hands. Joe doesn't design anything with an eye toward moderation. Joe may have gone overboard with the breasts but he got the articulation right. This body can pose like a dream.
I had such a good time posing her and taking pictures that I didn't even want to dress her. But here she is in a Tonner fashion created for Tyler's body. It fits perfectly. The ankle joints have a great range of movement and I'm guessing that Deva, Sybarite, Avantguard, Gene, Antoinette and pretty much any high heel shoe made for a 16" doll will fit.The skin tone matches the "Exceptional" Antoinette head perfectly.
The price of the body was high at $62 plus $10 for shipping. You probably won't be replacing all of your doll bodies at this price. Cherished Friends will be carrying them but I don't have a date or price.
Recommendation - get one just for the experience.
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Looks cool, will try. Thank you for sharing this info!ReplyDelete
- James5/2/10, 6:02 PM
Whats wrong with the breasts?ReplyDelete
My dolls like having large, blushed ones.. LOLOL It makes for some great pictures! I have a few doll friends and we have photo-themed weeks where we send pics to each other, via email.. and this week os "Risque & Provocative" ... One of my Toni's could use use those, this week for modeling. LOL
Hypnotic Antoinette in particular has been whispering for a breast enhancement.. maybe I have just found her one!
Thanks for the pictures!
James said...ReplyDelete
"Whats wrong with the breasts?"
Would you like a list?
I fixed it to read "may have gone overboard."
- Anonymous5/3/10, 5:02 AM
Err... frankly those breasts are scary^^ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous5/3/10, 12:04 PM
I think the breasts are keeping me from ordering this body. They are so exaggerated that I wonder if they would detract from any of the fashions that doll is dressed in.ReplyDelete
I don't think they breasts detract from the fashions unless you were to dress her in sheer lingerie and then...well...it would be interesting.ReplyDelete
while most dolls produced have breasts that look like implants, these are unique in that they look like fresh implants that have yet to settle and are still about 10 seconds away from "breadloafing" (symmastia).ReplyDelete
the first part was predictable based on his 1:6 sculpt, but the 2nd part seems unique to this scale. the smaller girls have more of a cleave footprint than this one
- Anonymous5/30/10, 8:02 AM
Can both Antoinette and Tyler heads fit this body? I read elsewhere that these heads are not interchangeable on Tonner bodies.ReplyDelete
Anonymous: This is not a Tonner body. This is a Joe Tai body and both Tyler and Antoinette heads fit.ReplyDelete


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Only a surfer knows the feeling - of getting sliced by a fin or whacked in the face by the nose of their board.
Now, researchers are working to make the iconic Aussie sport safer by looking at the link between surfing injuries and developments in board and accessory design.
The research, presented at a radiology conference in Sydney, has found that head and neck damage account for about one-third of all surfing injuries.
Royal North Shore Hospital specialist Dr Simon Dimmick has studied the injuries of surfers admitted to the hospital over the past two years.
"Most spinal injuries involve the neck and the majority are caused by surfers being dumped and coming into contact with the sea floor," he said.
"However the majority of head and facial injuries are caused by surfers being hit with their own surfboards."
Dr Dimmick said the types of injuries had changed over time due to innovations in board design.
"The last crop of studies into surfing injuries was done in the mid-80s; since then boards have changed greatly. They are shorter, lighter and more manoeuvrable," he said.
"Gone are the days of surfers standing on a longboard and riding in to shore on a wave - these days surfers are doing all kinds of manoeuvres including aerials and 360s.
"As a result there's more knee and ankle injuries, and there's a lot more chance of getting whacked in the face by the board."
Gerringong custom board designer Jade Robinson has suffered a few surfing injuries himself, once requiring stitches after being hit in the head by the fins of his board.
Mr Robinson's father Paul started a surfboard business in the 1970s and he followed suit 15 years ago with DSN Surfboards.
"I always advise beginners to start off on a soft board - made of a soft foam deck and with rails - and use rubber or safety fins," he said.
"There's also other accessories like rubberised nose guards and surfing helmets which help protect from injury."
Dr Dimmick said the sport was still relatively safe, with the incidence of injury ranging between 2.2 and 3.5 injuries per 1000 hours of surfing.
However, he said, more than two million Australians surfed so injury prevention was vital. Royal North Shore, Mona Vale and Manly hospitals were recording surfers' injuries.
"We need to continue to look at what predisposes surfers to injury to develop appropriate health and safety warnings and to contribute to the development of new safety accessories."


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Bronzed Fish Salad with Pepper Vinaigrette
Makes 4 servings
1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons Chef Paul Prudhomme's Meat Magic® OR
¾ teaspoon dry mustard
1 pound of your favorite firm fleshed fish filets
½ teaspoon olive oil
½ cup low fat mayonnaise
2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons mirin (sweet rice wine)
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Pepper Sauce®
½ cup plus 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 fennel bulb, cut into julienne strips, about 1½ cups
1 medium carrot, peeled and cut into julienne strips, about 3/4 cup
1 large onion, peeled and cut into julienne strips, about 2 cups
8 cups mixed salad greens
1½ cups sliced unpeeled cucumber
3 Roma tomatoes (preferred) or 1 medium tomato, sliced, about 1 1/2 cups
how to prepare
Combine the first 3 ingredients in a small bowl to make the Seasoning Mix.
Sprinkle the fish fillets with 1 tablespoon of the seasoning mix, coating all sides of the fillets evenly. Drizzle the olive oil over 1 side of the fillets.
Place a 12-inch skillet over high heat until it is very hot, about 4 minutes. Place the fillets in the skillet, oiled side down. Cook the fillets, turning twice, until they are golden brown on both sides and just cooked through, about 5 to 6 minutes in all. Remove the fish from the skillet and cool to room temperature. With a fork, flake the fish into bite-sized pieces.
In a medium size mixing bowl, combine low fat mayonnaise, the white balsamic vinegar, mirin and white wine vinegar. Stir in the Magic Pepper Sauce and the remaining Seasoning Mix and stir. Set aside or refrigerate if you are not using immediately. Makes about 1½ cups dressing.
Blanch the fennel by placing it in boiling water just until it begins to soften, about 1 to 2 minutes, and rinse under cold water to stop the cooking process. Blanch the onions and carrot (or other vegetables) in the same manner.
On 4 large salad plates, assemble each salad in layers in the following order (bottom to top), dividing the ingredients evenly among the 4 servings: the salad greens, onions, carrot slices, fennel, 1 cup of the dressing (¼ cup for each salad), the bronzed fish, and the remaining ½ cup of the dressing (2 tablespoons for each salad). Arrange ¼ of the cucumbers and tomatoes around each salad.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 6:25AM #41
Consider Jeramiah 31: 33-40 & Hebrews 8: 7-13,
here we are told specifically that under the new covenant God will put His laws in the minds & write them on the hearts of those that are His. He states that no longer will man need to teach man because it will be given to them just as instinct is given to the animals we shall have Gods Truth placed in us, written permanently. The context also states God will remember our sins no more & all will be forgiven & done. At the end of the verses it clearly states that this will be eternal not temporary as well.
So when does all this finally happen? If he has done this do we still have to go out & seek Him in such a way that we will be needing to go to a Holy Mountain to make offerings? Did God have Adam & Eve behaving as worshippers or as children? Were they recipients of His Love therefore he simply gave them all they needed & they loved Him back & communed with Him or did He make them worship Him to appease Him into giving them what they needed? You see when our position before Him changed our approach & His actions towards us did as well. That is when worship came into play not before.
So if He is going to write everything on our hearts so that we will have what we need not to sin and if He is going to remember our sins no more and forgive all, we will be back to the place that Adam & Eve were before the fall. Does the bible give direct evidance of us having to worship Him any longer after He creates a new Heavens & New earth? We may give Him or Praise & Love & Addoration but our position & existance with Him will be uniquely different & not as we now know & understand it at this time.
If you give some thought to these facts and then go back & look at the prophecies from places like Daniel, Ezekial or Revelation, think about what is being done & who is doing it. Then think about what God has said He will do & when. now if kings are still having to seek God & worship Him, does it sound like a time when He has written His laws on their hearts & in their minds and all has been forgiven? God also said that man would not have to teach man once he had finished His Will on their Hearts. Sounds like true perfection, so what is it if men are still worshipping & seeking God & leading one another in these things?
Yet the wording of these prophecies sounds like a perfect time but the problem is we are judging perfection by our standards not Gods, think about it. This will start to make you think about the timing of prophecy in a different light.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 6:33AM #42
Oh, one more point understanding truth -
Is. 11:3-9, the earthly paradise, will be fulfilled both during the 1,000 year reign of Christ, and after the short period of time Satan is let loose and the final war.
I.e. the earthly paradise is not either/or - it is both! And God and Magog will not be allowed to harm God's people in that final attack at the end of the 1,000 years.
However, we must first get through the first attack of God of Magog described in Ezekiel and then learn righteousness during the 1,000 year reign along with the many who will be resurrected during those 1,000 years (see Revelation 20)-
(Isaiah 26:9, 10) . . .With my soul I have desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I keep looking for you; because, when there are judgments from you for the earth, righteousness is what the inhabitants of the productive land will certainly learn. 10 Though the wicked one should be shown favor, he simply will not learn righteousness. In the land of straightforwardness he will act unjustly and will not see the eminence of Jehovah.
There are additional Scriptural details, if you are interested.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 6:43AM #43
I agree that there are three wars clearly defined in prophecy and they are one in heaven to cleans that environment & then two on earth to cleans it. However I belieeve that ther is allot of wrong assumption of what is taking place & when in relation to these two wars on earth. If you consider the very clear statements of what happens after the second war, which is a final cleansing & then it ststes a New Heavens & New Earth and all things are finally placed back to perfection. This is what God has said, so how do we get a perfect world before the second war has happened?
I can't find any language to connect the first war to the events that are so clearly ststaed as happening after the second war. I do however see allot of presumptions that the language is suposed to happening after the first war. I respecrfully think these are clearly wrong. I think you are reading about what will happen after the second & final war but are assuming & placing the information as though it were happening after the first. therefore the language ends up in conflict with what God has clearly ststaed He will do. Since God can not lie we must take into consideration what He intends to do & realign what prophecy tells us must happen with His intentions and that will change your time lign. it is the only way His Words can hold true.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 6:44AM #44
Understanding truth - Well, you have part of it correct. Indeed some do not reach perfection until the end of the 1,000 years - otherwise there would be no need for judges and priests - as those who rule with Christ forever, are also priests interceding for us for the 1,000 years - but not forever:
(Revelation 20:4-6) And I saw thrones, and there were those who sat down on them, and power of judging was given them. Yes, I saw the souls of those executed with the ax for the witness they bore to Jesus and for speaking about God, and those who had worshiped neither the wild beast nor its image and who had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand. And they came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ for a thousand years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.
Currently, and also during the 1,000 years when the new scrolls are opened, we are and will be taught.
Now we (Jehovah's Witnesses) are being taught and thus are enjoying the miraculous fulfillment of this prophecy and thus learn war no more!
(Isaiah 2:2-4) And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it all the nations must stream. 3 And many peoples will certainly go and say: "Come, YOU people, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem. 4 And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.
During the 1,000 years we will learn from the new scrolls that are opened then:
(Revelation 20:12-21:5) . . .And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Ha′des gave up those dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds. 14 And death and Ha′des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire. 15 Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled into the lake of fire. 21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more. 2 I saw also the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: "Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away." 5 And the One seated on the throne said: "Look! I am making all things new." Also, he says: "Write, because these words are faithful and true."
Note that death is not literally tormented in the lake of fire - rather all that is/are thrown into the lake of fire are no more! Yes, death will be no more!
And that is all part of the good news of God's Kingdom!
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 6:46AM #45
Please forgive the spelling in my posts, spell check is not working.
I have to go, familly will be getting up soon and we are going to have a very happy Easter together!
God bless!
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 6:52AM #46
Hey understandingtruth
This is a great post very accurate, hope to see you around this furm more often.
God Bless You
1Ti 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 6:55AM #47
Folks one last point,
How exactly are some to reach perfection & some not while all are still living in an imperfect world? Find where a God states or even insinuates that in scripture. His statements are not partial or temporary or in process but instead He said, "In that day I will......." He is not refering to a time that is in progress but is refering to a time that has already come in thee context. It is the time of the new covenant and some will not be still judged or condemed while others are not. He is stating that all will be placed in the same position with the same mind & heart, no more sin, over & done.
This isn't something you work through it's something He does & it's done. It's finished & then there is perfection not some perfection & some inperfection. There is no scriptural evidance that perfect people will have to still live in an imperfect world & yet that is what it will be if some are still imperfect. Everything God has given states that when man is made pefect so will his environment which he lives in.
I still say you are misplacing your timeline, sorry!
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 7:03AM #48
Understanding truth - Please be assured I am not assuming anything. The thousand year reign of Christ will be after he abyssing of Satan and his demons at Armageddon - and this is when the great evening meal of God foretold in Revelation and Ezekiel for the birds and wild beasts upon the wicked who are destroyed occurs. Do you agree?
Now, granted, it will be better after the final war since there will be no need for judging or a priesthood as there is during the 1,000 years. However, I can assure you that Jesus' 1,000 year reign will be beautiful indeed!
Perhaps you did not understand this account - it is obviously not talking about after the 1,000 years because, as you correctly noted - no one will need to be taught righteousness after that - though I am sure we will learn much more - learn forever, in fact! Again, this account:
(Isaiah 26:9, 10) . . .With my soul I have desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I keep looking for you; because, when there are judgments from you for the earth, righteousness is what the inhabitants of the productive land will certainly learn. 10 Though the wicked one should be shown favor, he simply will not learn righteousness. In the land of straightforwardness he will act unjustly and will not see the eminence of Jehovah.
Note that these judgments involve Armageddon (separation of the sheep and goat and destruction of the goats as per Jesus' illustration) and the 1,000 year judgment 'day' wherein many will learn righteousness but some wicked who are resurrected (see Acts 24:15 please) will not learn righteousness and will act unjustly.
This is during the 1,000 year reign - after the 1,000 years there will be no wicked nor will there be anyone who acts unjustly at all.
During the 1,000 years Adamic death will be no more - but there will still be those who die as a result of not learning righteousness - dying as a mere boy though 100 years old - having evil called down upon them. But this is also the time when the wolf and lamb will feed as one and no one will be allowed to do any harm to anyone (that is the point God will call down fire and destroy any wicked who might think to harm anyone or anything).
(Isaiah 65:20-25) . . ."No more will there come to be a suckling a few days old from that place, neither an old man that does not fulfill his days; for one will die as a mere boy, although a hundred years of age; and as for the sinner, although a hundred years of age he will have evil called down upon him. 21 And they will certainly build houses and have occupancy; and they will certainly plant vineyards and eat [their] fruitage. 22 They will not build and someone else have occupancy; they will not plant and someone else do the eating. For like the days of a tree will the days of my people be; and the work of their own hands my chosen ones will use to the full. 23 They will not toil for nothing, nor will they bring to birth for disturbance; because they are the offspring made up of the blessed ones of Jehovah, and their descendants with them. 24 And it will actually occur that before they call out I myself shall answer; while they are yet speaking, I myself shall hear. 25 "The wolf and the lamb themselves will feed as one, and the lion will eat straw just like the bull; and as for the serpent, his food will be dust. They will do no harm nor cause any ruin in all my holy mountain," Jehovah has said.
So, yes, it will be even better after the final test and final war after the 1,000 years - but oh how beautiful it will be during the 1,000 years!
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 7:08AM #49
Oh, btw, I need a nap - I woke up to early (central Standard time - US) - so to be continued.
Understanding truth - I enjoyed discussing the Scriptures with you and I appreciate even more how much better it will be after the thousand years having had this discussion!
I hope you also learned and enjoyed!
But off to sleep for me for now!
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|6 years ago :: Apr 08, 2012 - 7:14AM #50
Understanding truth - Sure, we are likely to refine our understanding of the times and seasons that belong to Jehovah - see Acts 1:6,7. e.g. we do not know what will be in those new scrolls!
However, the whole point of those ruling with Jesus servind as priests for the 1,000 yearrs is to help us reach perfection!
The good news now is that Jehovah's Witnesses are already enjoying the miraculous fulfillment of Isaiah 2:2-4 in that we are walking in God's paths, learning God's ways and learning war no more!
Some limit the fulfillment of this prophecy to after Armageddon - but, thank Jehovah, Jesus has taught us to learn war no more now! We don't have to wait! That is also part of the good news of God's Kingdom.
I am sorry, but I do need to nap! Unless I see another post by you before I log off and nod off!
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"Woot!!! We did it!!!! Fantastic!" Brian Fargo, head honcho of inXile and Wasteland 2, said on Twitter last night. "I am going to sleep like a baby tonight. Once again I am awed by the support! A dream come true today."
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Austria defied growing pressure to follow Luxembourg in ending bank secrecy, after a group led by Europe's six biggest countries pledged to work together to tackle tax havens.
Late on Friday, the finance ministers of Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland announced their desire to jointly push for more bank transparency, a message they will take to the meeting of the G20 top global economies in Washington this week.
"Nobody can deny that bank secrecy is outdated, that we need an efficient system to tackle evasion strategies," French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told reporters, flanked by his counterparts from the other countries.
"Our mission is to create momentum. When these six major capitals of Europe move together, it creates a strong signal which nobody can resist," he added.
On Saturday, three other countries — Belgium, the Netherlands and Romania — joined the initiative, the European Commission's official in charge of tax policy, Algirdas Semeta, said.
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Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski told reporters that he joined the group to ensure foreign multinationals do not abuse tax regimes for profit. Such companies are particularly important for central and eastern Europe.
"The scale of the problem is smaller in Poland than in western Europe, but some of the techniques used in western Europe to evade taxes are being transferred to Poland too," Rostowski said.
"Citizens must have full confidence that the system is not being abused to evade taxes or for simply for tax fraud," he said. "The fight with tax fraud will be all the more effective if it is conducted on a European and even global level — that's why we joined."
Announcing the cooperation, British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said he was pushing for more transparency from the UK overseas territories of the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands.
The announcement adds to pressure on Vienna to sign up to EU rules for the automatic exchange of information on bank depositors.
It follows Luxembourg's decision last week to share foreign bank account details with EU governments from 2015, bringing it into line with all other member states bar one — Austria.
However, Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter stuck to her earlier position, dismissing such an exchange of information as an invasion of privacy.
"We will fight for bank secrecy. We are no tax haven," Fekter told reporters, placing her country in a minority of one during discussions on the issue among 27 EU ministers.
She defended Austria's practice of imposing tax on interest paid to foreign savers, money collected and returned to their home country's government — but with no names attached. The EU wants information about accounts to be given.
"Our neighbors get their fair tax delivered," she said, claiming that any automatic exchange of information would lead to an overload of data that would not be used.
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She had earlier attacked the G20 top economies for not taking what she branded centers of money laundering such as the Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands or Delaware.
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It was only a matter of time before I couldn't hold back and I was just going to come out and say it, just like this, 'Edward, I know we agreed to wait, but…I need you. I want you…I'm 18 and I haven't lost my virginity yet. And I want you to be the one to do it!'. Then maybe a slight pout on my lip, maybe he will give in.
Charlie was gone for the weekend so Edward was coming over and staying Friday and Saturday night with me, so I wasn't lonely, and I was safe. So on Friday was when I was going to ask him. I am nervous, really nervous, I don't want him to look at me like I am crazy. And, I'm anything but perfect. My body isn't anything like Rosalie's, or even Alice's. I was just an average teenager, and even though I was shy, I knew Edward would love me no matter what I looked like. I hope…
I got home from school and rushes upstairs, brushing through my hair, and turning on the straightener I borrowed from Alice. She knew what was going to happen, yet she wouldn't tell me how it went, if he agreed, or totally disagreed. I was angry with her. But I guess I will find out tonight.
I brushed my teeth and straightened my hair, put on a small layer of mascara, a little light-ish blue eye shadow, and just a little eyeliner to make my eyes look bigger. I put on a tight blue tank-top and a pair of dark blue, tight skinny-jeans. I looked in the mirror.
Who is that in the mirror? I don't look anything like myself. Its odd…weird. I was getting lost in my own reflection when there was a knock on the door. I hope down the stairs, careful not to trip, and opened the door excitedly. "Edward!" I said as I opened the door, he stood there, tall and perfect. His perfect chiselled face was looking right at mine. And suddenly I felt my cheeks get hot, I wasn't ready for this! What was I thinking?!
'Stop it Bella', I thought to myself, 'You planned this all week, and you are not about to chicken out now.' I nodded slightly, agreeing with myself.
I bounced up and kissed Edward's cold lips, smiling a little. "You didn't have to know, you know?", I said as I pulled away from the kiss. He shrugged. "Well, Bella, I didn't want to be rude." He smiled his perfect, glowing smile. I fiddled with the end of my shirt nervously.
I walked into the kitchen, motioning him to follow, and sat down at the table. He sat down at the other side, in Charlie's seat, the one I tried to picture where Edward would get old like him, loose his perfection, something. But I knew he wouldn't. He is a vampire, after all.
"Edward, I…I want to ask you something. And I am being serious." I said, looking down at my hands and playing with the ring on my finger, a small blush wiped across my cheeks.
"Well, what is it?" He asked curiously, a smile on his lips.
I took a deep, long breath and then looked him in the eyes, building up all the confidence and bravery I could get. "I want to have sex, Tonight." I said, quickly, but clearly. His eyes opened and the smile went away.
"Absolutely impossible.", He said, his eyes hard and cold. I look at him with disappointment. No, keep trying Bella. "But Edward, I know you wouldn't lose control, you have been with me for almost a year and a half now and you still don't trust yourself? We have played around alittle before, like kissing and making out and stuff, honestly. Don't you think you could have sex with me? Its not that big of a deal…" The small pout I had practised slid across my lips and I gave the best sad look I could to him. He fidgeted in his seat uncomfortably.
"But Bella, you know I don't think it is safe, and we aren't married yet." He said, smoothly and coolly, but his eyes looked almost panicked.
I got up from the table and looked at him, more serious then ever, and turned, walking away. "Fine, then." I said coldly while walking away. "Have it your way, like always." I stormed up the stairs and slammed my door, leaving Edward downstairs at the kitchen table.
After awhile I heard him slowly walk up the stairs and open the door quietly. He walked in and looked at me from the door way, I turned around, not facing him. "What?" I said harshly, I felt him get on the bed with me. He sighed loudly and kissed the back of my neck and then my head.
But what he did next was surprising. He slid his cool hand up my shirt and slid up and down my stomach slowly, almost tickling it. I blushed madly. Then, he pulled me over, so he was look into my eyes and I was facing him. He slid his hand up higher, just below the metal part of my bra, I looked in his eyes wildly. Excited that he was going to go through with this.
He slid his hand around to the back and un-clicked my bra so it came undone, then he moved to the rim of my shirt, I didn't say anything, I just let him do whatever he wanted. He moved closer to me, so we were pressed against each other. Then, he slid his hand down the back of my leg and hitched my leg over his hip. My breath hitched and sped up, along with my heart beat. I tried to stay calm and not to show it.
I moved to the rim of his shirt and started to lift it up, when I did, a perfectly chiselled chest was there, and I couldn't help but stare in awe. He slid off my shirt and I blushed, slipping out of my bra as well so the top half of me was bare. The blush went to a deeper shade of red because my face got hot. I fumbled with the zipper and button of his jeans, but got them undone, then I looked at him. He just nodded so I started to pull them down.
I was so happy right now, and I could feel my heart almost beating out of my chest! I slid his pants down and pushed them off with my feet once I couldn't reach any farther with my hands. I blushed, looking down there was a slight bulge through his plaid boxers. He was big. I could tell.
He swiftly moved to my pants and slid them off with grace, he slowly brushed his hand up and down my thigh and I could feel myself 'getting excited'. I started to kiss up his neck, to his jaw, and then to his mouth. Sliding my tongue elegantly into his mouth, his sucked light and kisses back. I closed my eyes and moved my hands to the rim of his boxers, moving them down a little and then a little more, and then a little more until they were off. I threw them to the ground, no need for those anymore.
I looked down at his growing erection and blushed a deep red, grunting a little, nervous.
He kissed up my neck slowly, a low rumble, like a growl, coming from his chest. It aroused me even more. I gulped as he started to pull off mine. He looked down and then looked up at me when they were off. He kissed me lightly got closer, his very hard, and large erection pressing against me. I grunted a little louder, moaning a little and very quietly. I wanted this. I was ready for this.
"Are you ready?" He asked, I nodded and his nodded back. He crashed our lips together, and then I felt him slide inside of me with ease and stealth. It hurt, like hell. And I could feel him pressing against my cherry, I grunted. "Just…break it already." He nodded and did a hard thrust into it, popping it. It felt weird, but it didn't hurt like everyone said it did. I was calm, it just felt a little strange.
I closed my eyes, waiting for him to adjust inside of me. "Okay…" I signed heavily, the pain of him being inside my tunnel gone. He nodded and began to slowly and delicately thrust into me.
I kissed him roughly, our lips crashing together, mine getting a little red and swollen. I closed my eyes, feeling the rhythm of our hips gliding into each other and making a soft slapping noise. I moaned now, into the kiss, and Edward moaned with me. Low growls coming from his chest as he started to move faster.
I started to grow wet, my juices flowing onto his large penis. I groaned as we kissed, not pulling away. He moved faster, dipping inside of me with ease and perfection. My mind was filled with so many thoughts. How amazing this was. How I wanted him so badly. I started to thrust into his penis with him, we both moaned. Edward moved slowly down and licked my breast, sucking on my nipple lightly until it was hard and then he moved to the other. I started to breathe faster and heavier.
He slid out of me and I looked at him with confusion, until he started lowering his down to my center, my eyes opened a little and I got excited. He licked me once and my eyes got wild. He started licking furiously up and down my clit, I moaned and grabbed a fistful of his hair and his slid his tongue inside of me. In and out and up and down. I pulled him up and we crashed our lips together, he slid back inside of me. Moving fast and hard, thrusting deep, but careful not to break me. His shifted one of his legs over his shoulder and sat up a little, thrusting into me harder. "Oh Edward!" I moaned loudly with pleasure, it was taking over me and I was going to come soon if he kept this up. He moaned and a snarl escaped his lips, he grabbed my hips roughly and started to ram into me faster.
"Mmm…Bella!" He yelled, keeping the rhythm of his thrusts equal. I moaned as my juices slid around his cock, dripping down It whenever he pulled out to tease my clit with the tip. It made me groan loudly.
He moved into me a few more times before we both exploded into eachother. "EDWARD!" I yelled and moaned, saying his name quietly a few more times, he snarled and growled as he came inside of me. He slowly lied down on top of me, both of us breathing heavily, beads of sweat trickled down the back of my neck and between my breasts. He kissed me one more time before lying his head down on my chest and listening to my heart beat.
Best..time..ever.. I thought happily, and closed my eyes.
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I receive confirmations in AskLibreoffice that version 4.2.0 is bugged.
When i open a clac sheet with some cells containing non-latin text, calc freeze when i try to delete a selection of rows where one of rows contain offending text. When delete only the row with offending text, it works. Is worst when i try too delete any column, freeze all the time. Selecting all sheet and try to change fonts for all cells, freeze again. I open some csv, the all page have Liberation sans font, and cell containing 路 文龙 show me Unifont font.
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If you are using 4.2.0 then upgrade to 4.2.1 because that sounds like a known problem in 4.2.0 that is fixed in 4.2.1
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On the Spot: Rep. Carole Murray, R-Castle Rock
Editor's note: Each week during the legislative session, Denver Post political reporters will sit down with Capitol newsmakers.
Carole Murray once worked as a newspaper reporter, but her colleagues don't hold it against her. Her career also has included a stint as a teacher, director of the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce and two terms as Douglas County's elected clerk and recorder.
Murray, 61, is married to Lisle Gates, principal of Castle View High School in Castle Rock. Between them, they have five children and eight grandchildren.
Q: County clerks oversee Motor Vehicle offices. Last year, you argued against a bill that increased late-registration fees to a maximum $100 and made them mandatory. Now lawmakers agree there need to be some exemptions. Why don't you think your message got through last year?
A:Sometimes there is a disconnect between what happens at the state legislature and the real world of local government.
I knew that the public would rise up against the late fees and it would show its face at the motor vehicle counters all over the state. The motor vehicle offices are where most people meet their government.
Q: The main focus of that bill, known as FASTER, increased vehicle registration rates to raise more money for transportation. Why did you oppose it?
A: My belief is that if the people were convinced that we needed road money in this state, if they had been given the opportunity to vote on it, they probably would have been very smart about their vote.
In Colorado we collect significant taxes through motor-vehicle fees. Many states do not, they just have a registration fee.
Q: Where do you stand on Proposition 101, which would reduce the costing of registering vehicles to a flat $10?
A: I haven't read it yet.
Q: You've lived in Colorado for 32 years. What brought you out here?
A: I think it's a pretty typical story. I came here on vacation and said "Wow, this really is amazing place and I wonder if I could move here." And I found a way to do that.
Q: How long did you work for the Douglas County News Press?
A: I was there from 1982 to 1991. I started out in advertising sales, and then I got tired of that so I went into reporting. I covered a lot of local Douglas County stories. It was a growing county and there were new buildings being built.
But there was more money to be made by selling advertising and the hours were better so I became the advertising manager. When I was the ad manager the department won a statewide award.
I realize how difficult reporting is.
Q: I'm dying to know. Have you ever been accused of being part of the "liberal media" or the "vast left-wing conspiracy?"
A: (Laughing) No. But I remember covering the Parker Town Council and thinking, it's really hard to not have a bias. I wanted to be participating in the issues, not reporting on them.
Q: After you left the newspaper industry, you ran the chamber and then ran for clerk and recorder in 1998. What prompted that?
A: I used to teach the caucus classes in the Republican Party and someone said, "You need to think about running for office." The timing all fit together.
The first time I ran I met Bill Owens, who was running for governor. We were in the Douglas County Fair parade together. He shook my hand and said, "Carole Murray, nice signs." I was one of the first people to put signs along I-25 and he had noticed that.
Q: Denver and Douglas counties experienced horrific problems in the 2006 election with long lines and people going home without voting. It was your last year as county clerk and you apologized at a news conference, saying this is "not the way I wanted to go out."
A: I was conservative and didn't buy enough machines.
When I campaigned for representative, most people I met understood what happened. That was not an issue against me. The electorate is pretty savvy. They knew in my eight years there I made a lot of good decisions. I increased the use of technology and left a department with a staff that is renowned for its customer service.
Q: Tell me about your House district.
A: House District 45 includes the southern half of Douglas County, as far north as Castle Pines North and as far east as the Pinery in the rural Parker area and the mountain town of Deckers.
It includes all of Teller County. The Teller County people are just an incredible constituency. They are all individualists and they all have opinions and they follow politics.
There's a huge gold mine in Teller County and I grew up in mining country in southern Illinois.
Q: What's the most surprising thing to you about being a lawmaker?
A: How wonderful it is to work with my colleagues.
I never really got that coming in as a clerk and testifying about a bill. When you're on the other side, you don't know how the relationships are down here. When you're in the building for 12 hours a day you have to figure out how to make those close quarters work for everybody.
We have a wonderful team on the Republican side and on the Democratic side, for the most part.
Q: What do you mean "for the most part?"
A: This year has been rough, with tempers flaring early in the session.
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The movie was pretty good, but now that it has been months since I have seen the movie and my view isn't skewed by hype, I can say I lost interest in seeing any more Nolan films after this one, so grats WB?
This movie was cut all wrong. If nothing else it at least needed a better introduction to Bane. I mean when Batman immediately recognizes bane as a crazy threat without really knowing anything about him made no sense at all. They tried to lampshade this when Alfred points out what a complete mess he made, but it really didn't work for me and that is when my suspended disbelief broke so early in the movie. I think that is the most glaring flaw I saw in the movie. Batman loosing his cool just because a guy with a mask showed up seemed... uncharacteristic to say the least.
Also they didn't toy with the morally grey like they did the previous two movies. In the first two the villains stood for something. Ra's was about bringing judgement to the wicked with brutality and rebooting society. A relatable motive that crosses lines most sane people would not. Made him a compelling villain. The Joker also was also a character that struck a chord with the rebellious type. As we all know he represented the idea that life is a joke, and who hasn't wondered that at some point or another? In both, Batman not only overcame the physical threats, but battled these ideologies. In TDKR we have none of that. Bane didn't really stand for anything and Talia was just the things her father stood for plus revenge. I mean yeah, the movie told us that he was a false revolutionary who in the end couldn't be trusted, but it wasn't really shown much. In the end, it only felt like Batman overcame same old same old and some physical challenges. there was no deeper feel to the movie that made the other two movies so great. I think that is what bugs me most.
That said, the movie wasn't bad. In the end it was a good action move. It's just disappointing compared to the other two. If I ever want to watch the movies I'll more likely go for Batman Begins or TDK. I'm not even sure I'm going to buy a copy of TDKR.
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I feel as though around every corner there is something new and ingenious coming out of Thomas Wold's studio. This past week we learned that he designed two pieces for the Good Hotel in San Francisco.
One piece is a computer station for the lobby constructed of a number of found items…
The other is a design that will be featured in his "Solid Wold" column in the holiday issue of ReadyMade magazine. We won't spill the beans on what the piece is or what it is made of…but do keep your eyes out for this issue, it is worth it!
If you are not familiar with the Good Hotel, it is a new Joie de Vivre boutique hotel boasting to be the first of its kind "with a conscience." The hotel believes in doing good by way of their philanthropic approach and eco-friendly designs (with a quirky twist!). The décor is made from reclaimed or recycled construction materials, "Be Good" is written on the walls of the rooms, they've got glow in the dark messages, and their vending machine in the lobby is stocked with wallets made from recycled FedEx envelopes. Not to mention Thomas Wold pieces are featured there….hot dog!
For more info on the Good Hotel visit http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/good/
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A former Topeka lawyer pleaded guilty to stealing more than several clients' trust funds.
Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that 52-year-old Robert M. Telthorst pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
Telthorst admitted that from November 2005 to August 2011 he took clients' money for his personal use and to voer up thefts from other clients' trust accounts.
His victims include a charitable trust of $80,000 set up for the University of Kansas School of Business. After Telthorst's thefts, the balance was $1,750.
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While we know for sure that more than a few Trabants have made it stateside over the last couple of decades, it's probably safe to assume that the opportunity to buy one remains exceedingly rare. Yet here we see a 1989 Trabant 601 Deluxe for sale on Hemmings, which is still running and appears to remain in mostly original condition. From the seller's description:
This is a very nice Trabant with only 32,000 miles (52,000 km) on it. It starts and runs very well and is a lot of fun to drive around in. Kinda like a go-cart for adults. Not a lot of power, but enough to keep up with city traffic and it gets 35 MPG doing it. I use Amsoil in the fuel mix and it barely smokes, unlike pictures you might have seen. This car has all the latest from Zwickau's technology department. It has 12-volt electronic ignition, dual/split brake system, seat belts and head restraints. Since it's a Deluxe, it has foglights, rear defroster, and a few other features that I was told about by my German in-laws but can't remember.
The best part is that when the people in my wife's town heard that a Trabant was going to America, they started donating spare parts from their garages, so the car comes with crates of parts. Some are new, many are slightly used. It even comes with a spare long-block motor. It also comes with four spare wheels.
It has newer tires on it (on the spare wheels) as the originals were a bit old (they come on the original wheels) and a new battery. I did have to rebuild the master cylinder last year using all new parts.
See more cars for sale on Hemmings.com.
The 'Bic lighter' of cars! (Although I think a bic lasts longer lol)
Uglier than a mud fence, smokes like Milton Berle, and you could feel safe leaving it unlocked at ANY curb. The interior has all the pinache of an enema bag.
Well, it is an interesting fully functional car for $6k, you could certainly do worse.
Besides, what do I see at the right of the screen but a West German austerity-mobile (Isetta) for $30k. Makes the Trabant look like a bit of a deal..
This begs the question, "Wouldn't you rather have a Yugo?" At least a Trabant won't rust out! My experiecne with iron curtain machinery comes from importing 15 Chinese Chiang Jiang CJ750 military motorcydcles over the years (based on the 1938 BMW), and the quality of the domestic from behind the iron curtain has to be experienced to be beleived. There is no quality! Like the CJ750, a Trabant has to be taken in the context of the time it wad designed, not built, and the materials from which it was built. This is truly a cheap 1950's car. A 2CV would be a far more fun, and not much more money.
Trabants are a real piece of history. I really hope this doesn't end up some sort of caricature body on a rod chassis. It's important to keep artifacts like this intact so that we know how some people had to live, what they went through in their daily lives for one period of time.
I own one of the Trabants that were used by the band U2 as a stage prop on their ZooTV tour here in the states in '92. It was actually painted while the band used the Hershey stadium in August of that year for rehearsals; a fact that I silently laugh to myself about every October when I'm wandering the red field.
Four of the U2 trabants are hanging in the atrium of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, a few other ones have also made it stateside. U2 ended up buying between somewhere between 14-20 Trabants for that tour. Only two or three of those Trabbis retained their engines and interior, the others were hung from rafters and rigging so weight was a concern.
I was just going to ask: does it come with a ceiling hanger?? The only advantage over my old Saab 93s is that synthetic body, but I'm sure it'll disintegrate with time, also.
Agree that a 2CV would be a better choice; the only decently thing I've seen come out from behind the Iron Curtain were the old YAK aircraft, which seemed to be decently built and reasonably reliable. [With parts still available from China]
Don't remember all of the details, but I vaguely remember that TBS (Ted Turner's first cable channel) was involved in some way with that U2 tour, and actually had a contest where they gave away a Trabant to some "lucky viewer"! (might've been ABC if it wasn't a Turner channel). There was also concert tickets, back-stage pass to meet the band, hotel and airfare thrown in.
Always wondered who won the Trabant, and what they did with it.
It would certainly be a major conversation piece at your neighborhood car show.
I have a 40 lb piece of the Berlin Wall for the buyer of this car. It came from the section by Brandenburg Tor. These cars are made of fiber board and they do smoke like crazy. I can't tell you how many of these I saw abandoned by the side of the road after the wall fell. And to think people waited 7 years to buy one!
I kind of like the idea of the 2CV. At least I wouldn't have to wear such a big paper sack over my head so no one would recognize me driving it.
Seriously though, it is indeed a reminder that people living elsewhere in this world were not as privileged as those of us over here. And they were probably just as happy… Except when they had to put that paper sack over their head.
I understand that in the former East Germany,you had to wait for 3 to 4 years to take delivery of your new Trabant. Of course, you had to pay for it in full, when you placed your order. When the big day arrived to get your new car,you had 1 color choice! Thats because the factory only produced one color at a time. You where still happy to get anything that moved.
If your had friends in or where a member of the local communist party office,you could order a
Wartberg. A nicer car,it had a 3 cylinder 2 stroke engine!
Ah,the joys of living in a workers paradise.
Having grown up in East Germany the waiting time was more like 8 years for one of these. This must be one of the last ones as from 1990 they actually changed the design slightly and it came with an engine of the VW Polo after VW bought the manufacturing plant. Interesting also the registration plate – never seen this before but it was only used between 1991 and 1994
I paid 1300 $ for my 1994 mercury topaz with 75K on it a month ago.I'll drive it to work til I retire in 5 year's.
32,000 miles, eh? That's about 30,000 over its life expectancy!
An '89 would not be legal in the US because it does not make the 25 year rule. People have various ways of fudging that, but if a state's DMV doesn't want to register it, and if an insurance company doesn't want to cover it, and if the federal EPA/DOT want to CONFISCATE it, they are all within their legal rights.
A guy who brought one of these home to the USA a few years back gave me the 411. The DMV doesn't want to hear about them. Consider a Trabant as a piece of static art because you will never be able to register and license it due to it's impossibly wretched engineering. And if it so much as touches a public road you will have to pay some painful Customs and import fees/penalty. He could exhibit the car but it had to ride on a trailer. And that trailer better have it's registration in order. (Your mailman works for The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi)
Okay, I'm kidding about that last part.
I remember that in the early 1990s Car and Driver magazine tried to road-test a Trabant privately imported by a famous musician. They couldn't legally drive the car on US public roads at all – the car had to be trailered everywhere. C/D eventually had to go to the Chrysler test track (privately owned) in order to conduct the test. I doubt the situation would be any easier today.
Amayzing someone would go to that trouble and not a mention of 'recycled cardboard'.
Later Trabis till the end had a modern VW Polo drivetrain but were still largely unwanted.
You Statesiders seem to lack that bit of social attitude that we in Europe, which national age and extended history has taught us, inasmuch that the old needs nurturing and loving, its passing to be remembered in the remains we have left to view. I have worked on a great deal of former Soviet machinery and while much is outwardly crude, there was intensive thought put into every bit that made it into production. Most components do more than one task, servicing can be done by a peasant in his field and to paraphrase Colin Chapman of Lotus Car fame "add simplicity" . A fellow without a Trabbie in his life is missing out on one of it's little joys…. And I know of which I speak !
Wow. This article was published four years ago. Lots of things have changed since then. As a Stateside owner and importer of a 1989 Trabant, I can tell you that they are fun to drive, don't make much smoke at all, and very easy to work on. Are they for everyone? Absolutely not. They aren't a Rolls, they aren't a Bentley, but they sure aren't a Yugo. By the way, they are perfectly legal to import to the USA now, ALL of them, since they are all at least 25 years old now. It is very easy to import one, register/insure, and to get parts for. I can get anything over the Internet, including new and rebuilt components, from Germany in a week. Driving is generally not for the superhighways, since they were designed for a different time and country that suffered from material shortages and was rebuilding slowly after the utter destruction of a world war. But the car zips about on side roads at 35-50 mph easily, and is easy to start and run with its factory-supplied electronic ignition. Driving is also a lot of fun because of all the thumbs-up, smiles, waves and honks you get from admirers. At car shows, the Trabi gets the attention. Having a bad day? Drive a Trabi- it will cheer you up immediately!


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A new studio offering music, dance, theater and other performing arts classes for children and adults is scheduled to open in the West Valley in August. The Anderson Institute of Music and Performing Arts will be located on Main Street in Verrado, a community located in the foothills of the White Tank Mountains.
The institute was founded in Pasadena in 2005 and moved to Verrado in 2008. Owners Edward and Angela Anderson say the new 1,200 square foot studio will help them meet growing demand for arts education in the West Valley, especially as school art programs continue to be cut.
Angela Anderson is a longtime music educator and vocal coach who holds a degree in vocal performance and a graduate degree in musical theater. Edward Anderson has nearly three decades experience in singing, songwriting and producing, and served as executive director of Algonquin Theatre Productions in NYC.
The Andersons stress the importance of collaboration within the arts community, noting that they work closely with Arizona Broadway Theatre in Peoria and the West Valley Arts Council. They oversee and direct the West Valley Children's Choir.
Their new space features four studios for private lessons and classes. Think piano, guitar, voice, drums, strings and woodwinds. A large rehearsal space will be used for dance, theater, choir, string orchestra and group work. Instruments will be available for purchase.
The Andersons plan to have a total of 14 teachers and staff. I'm told the institute will be home to various performance groups and offer training in some relatively uncommon disciplines. Think songwriting, clogging and ukelele (not all at the same time).
Other options include music theory, ear training, voice pedagogy, sight-reading, rhythm, music expression, music interpretation, music recording and live performance delivery.
The institute expects to present monthly community performances in various venues, two annual recitals, an annual musical production, theater readings, summer camps and more.
It seems the only thing they don't (yet) offer is the class my children say I'm most in need of: "How to sing less out of tune to oldies while driving the teen taxi with the windows rolled down."
— Lynn
Coming up: More Valley performing arts studios, Resume tips for young actors, Fall theater camps


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Origin is now getting serious about being seen as a bona fide digital distribution platform, rather than a vanity project, as Electronic Arts today announced it has signed up another eleven publishers. Over "the coming months," Origin will add PC games from CD Projekt RED, 1C Company, Paradox Interactive and more, starting today with MMORPG Rift from Trion Worlds.
The eleven joining forces with Origin are The Witcher 2 maker CD Projekt RED, sim and strategy specialist 1C Company, niche publisher Paradox Interactive, To The Moon dev Freebird Games, InXile Entertainment, N3V Games, Core Learning, Trion Worlds, Robot Entertainment, Autumn Games, and Recoil Games.
"Origin is focused on providing choice to consumers and the games they play," Origin VP of business development and marketing Craig Rechenmacher said in the announcement. "From blockbuster franchises to high-quality independent titles, we're bringing the industry's best content to one place. We're excited to welcome new partners and a diverse new line-up of titles to Origin today."
Origin first started selling games from third-party publishers in November, signing up Warner Bros., THQ and Capcom. Industry analysts polled in November weren't impressed by Origin, but signing up more publishers and expanding is at least a step in the right direction for EA.


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