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|A Working for an MP Guide
|Maps of the Parliamentary Estate
|First Published
|7 May 2010
|Last Updated
|30 January 2012
|Last Reviewed
|1 January 2014
|Unamended version copied from old Guide
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- The Parliamentary Estate – which shows the Palace and PCH in the Westminster context, including some buses and underground. Click here to view (328KB PDF).
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- Portcullis House – showing the Ground and First floors (and the roof!) Click here to view (821KB PDF).]
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Hamptons locals eagerly await Tumbleweed Tuesday
East End residents gathered at the Blue Collar Bar in Southampton plan to commemorate the end of summer tourist season -- and the departure of seasonal residents -- by celebrating Tumbleweed Tuesday, as the day after Labor Day is locally known.
No more urgent calls to get the air conditioner fixed. Not another demand that the pool be kept at a steady 90 degrees.
The joke is that to mark the end of the summer season, everyone will go out and make a whole bunch of left turns -- something that has been a chore for the past three months in the Hamptons, said Nicole Locher, 28, a bartender at the Blue Collar Bar.
As the summer crowds start to leave on Labor Day weekend, year-round residents of the Hamptons are letting out a sigh of relief.
"You can feel the whole place get less stressful," Locher said.
The Hamptons have bustled and boomed this summer, according to many accounts. Beaches have been packed. Stores reported strong sales. And celebrities from Justin Bieber to Bill Clinton made appearances.
Those who live in East End communities admit that the second-home visitors drive the economy, pay taxes, keep people employed and make the place exciting.
But summer isn't all about open wallets and beautiful people. Prices at stores jump, locals say. Lines at the coffee shops spill out the door. Surfers' waves get crowded by amateurs.
The most commonly heard complaints are about traffic. With a couple of accidents that closed major arteries for hours, travel was an acute headache this year, residents said.
"I appreciate the summer people. I love their energy, the excitement, the events," said Patrick McLaughlin, a real estate agent and East Hampton resident. "But this is not a vacation resort for some of us, and we have to live our lives."
Summer residents are "our bread and butter," he acknowledged, but the influx of vehicles can mean an hour to drive the 13 miles between East Hampton and Southampton in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Years ago, locals began referring to the day after the long Labor Day weekend as Tumbleweed Tuesday because, they quipped, the community became so empty a tumbleweed could roll down Main Street. It has become a common expression throughout the area as locals celebrate September's arrival.
For many year-round residents, the end of summer means work.
David Steiber, 58, a contractor in the hamlet of North Sea, welcomed less traffic and being able to enjoy his favorite coffee shop and bakery again, but noted he'll be busy. The seasonal part-time residents don't want construction on their houses to take place during the summer.
"They want to enjoy their three months in heaven," he said.
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Theoretical calculations focused on the stability of an infinite hexagonal AlN (h-AlN) sheet and its structural and electronic properties were carried out within the framework of DFT at the GGA-PBE level of theory. For the simulations, an h-AlN sheet model system consisting in 96 atoms per super-cell has been adopted. For h-AlN, we predict an Al-N bond length of 1.82 angstrom and an indirect gap of 2.81 eV as well as a cohesive energy which is by 6% lower than that of the bulk (wurtzite) AlN which can be seen as a qualitative indication for synthesizability of individual h-AlN sheets. Besides the study of a perfect h-AlN sheet, also the most typical defects, namely, vacancies, anti-site defects and impurities were also explored. The formation energies for these defects were calculated together with the total density of states and the corresponding projected states were also evaluated. The charge density in the region of the defects was also addressed. Energetically, the anti-site defects are the most costly, while the impurity defects are the most favorable, especially so for the defects arising from Si impurities. Defects such as nitrogen vacancies and Si impurities lead to a breaking of the planar shape of the h-AlN sheet and in some cases to the formation of new bonds. The defects significantly change the band structure in the vicinity of the Fermi level in comparison to the band structure of the perfect h-AlN which can be used for deliberately tailoring the electronic properties of individual h-AlN sheets.
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I feel honored to be premiering the first track off of Ooah's and LoBounce's yet-unreleased Get Primal EP. With a title of "Trash Talk", the name certainly does the actual song justice because what you will hear is some straight nasty, 100% sick, and absolutely dirty sound. And all of it in a good way. I've respected Ooah as a part of The Glitch Mob for a long time, and have really come to love the unique sound that LoBounce has emanated in his music, but when they decided to come together the collaboration has surpassed my wildest expectations.
With an energetic and upbeat intro, I cautiously wait for what comes next, only to be greeted with a wobbly and powerful drop that is reminiscent of LoBounce style. And the song only gets crazier from there. Ooah's style shines throughout the track and LoBounce's sound is a more than adequate companion, leaving my ears craving for more. I've seen LoBounce play live, I plan on seeing Ooah play live (whether it be solo or with The Glitch Mob), and I fully expect for this track to be included in each's set and fully capable of driving the audience to an absolute fervor.
So be ready for Get Primal to drop July 24, and get ready to express your most animalistic tendencies while listening below.


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February 25, 2017
February has set many records as far as weather goes. We have had extreme snow and wind as well as temperatures in the 60's.
Somehow I am on par as to where I wanted to be with my horses in training.
Lyra has gone on her first trail ride with her buddy Topper. At times she was leading the way. The roads are ones she has ground driven and knows very well.
Pheonix is also being ridden around the farm yard. I have no pics yet but will soon. He also enjoys going out for long ground drives.
Jack has settled in perfectly. We are ground driving every where and he is very bold. I am continuing his desensitizing for having a rider and weight on his back. I should be riding him by next week. If my helper could be around more, we would be hitching him to a cart and driving him down the road. But such is life.


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Did you know that dark chocolate has nearly five times the antioxidants of blueberries? Or that sugar is one of the few naturally fat-free foods? Not that I'm advocating a candy binge, but its nice to know the good stuff isn't completely off the menu. Candace Kane's Candy Factory is an assembly line game which has you producing more of the sweet stuff by the dozens.
Candace "Candy" Kane is the niece of famous candy maker Wilbert Kane. Wilbert has finally decided to retire, and now Candy is taking over the family business and opening up her own candy shop. She needs your help to get the factory up and running. In addition to becoming successful, Candy wants to make it to the pinnacle of the candy-making world — the Candy Cup Championship. It's not just about the candy – the Kane's have a long standing rivalry with the Rich family, including the highly competitive Lico Rich who comes up with all sorts of ways to sabotage Candy's business.
To play, you must match orders that appear by swapping candies on the conveyor belt. You want to match the exact 3-candy pattern which is shown above the customer's head. Once the pattern is complete, the order is automatically bagged and set on the counter top. Click on the bag, and then click on Candy to deliver the order to the customer. The customers can leave you gold coin tips which help unlock new customer types and increases your profit. Speed is important, as customers can lose patience and leave. They are pretty forgiving though and don't lose patience too easily.
Some special candies, like stars and cubes, are stackable. Clicking on two of these items combines them. Using a stacked candy in an order adds value to it. Combos are also a good way to add extra profit. A combo is made if you fill customer orders in succession, without stopping to make any other swaps. Doing swaps that don't make and order will reset your combo.
If you have extra time between customer orders, you can get a small amount of extra profit by matching three identical candies in a row on the conveyor. These candies are considered "on sale," so they don't earn you as much profit as filling the main orders.
The upgrades also effect your total candy value. The "candy coating machine" adds a colorful candy finish to everything that passes through it, so that the candies on the last half of the conveyor earn you more profit. The "wrapping" machine makes pretty packages out of your candy, scoring you extra profit, especially with certain customers like the Grannys. If you're getting overwhelmed, you can use the "pause lever." This temporarily stops the conveyor so you can make matches at your leisure. This particular power-up needs to recharge before you can use it again. All of these upgrades are purchased with the customer tips you've earned during the game.
Using a variety of candy combinations makes the game more challenging, as do the upgades if you choose to use them. There are a lot of random challenges and events that make things more exciting, like qualifying contests for the Candy Making Championship, and Lico's meddling with your production.
However, on the whole, there aren't too many unique developments in this game which make it stand out, and it starts feeling repetitive once you beat the first few levels. It's just a tiny bit too easy for extended play. While you can choose to try and make big combos and use the upgrades to the fullest, you don't seem to need to do this in order to advance. Also, clicking on both Candy and the bag to deliver the order seemed redundant. Once in a while, my matches were ignored for a few seconds before the match was noticed by the AI – this made the game feel a bit unreliable. I would have liked more selection in the upgrades, and more integration between the upgrades and success at higher levels.
Despite that, if you enjoy assembly line games like Teddy Factory, and also like basic tile matching games, you might find this a good diversion. Because its very simple, its easy to pick up and play for an hour or two when you have time to burn.


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Political rapper talks about 'dark side of revolution'
Part 1 | Part 2
Felipe Coronel is, all at once, a Peruvian-born student of history, a thickly-accented New Yorker, a child of Harlem, and an incredibly well-read man. Better known by his stage name Immortal Technique he writes and performs some of the most politically saturated and emotionally charged music to appear in the work of any American artist since perhaps Bob Dylan, only darker and more raw.
Tech does not create music that is peace-oriented or anti-war. He does not create music about gang violence or the need for racial equality. Instead, he explores the history of all of these issues and shows, rather than tells, his listener why he believes we humanity, America, African Americans, Latinos, et cetera are where we are.
In a song called The 4th Branch from his second album, Revolutionary Volume 2, for example, Tech sings:
Media censorship, blocking out the video screens
A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain
Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin'
The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason
Yo, it don't come as a challenge
I'm the son of some of the foulest
Elected by my people...the only one on the ballot
Born and bred to consult with feds, I laugh at fate
And assassinate my predecessor to have his place
In a third-world fashion state, lock the nation
With 90% of the wealth in 10% of the population
The Central Intelligence Agency takes weight faithfully
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Major Chris Armijo has spent 19 years in the Army and is currently assigned to U.S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Joint Base San Antonio. Since 1998, Chris has held leadership and staff positions in the Army and around the world and currently serves on the Fort Sam ISD School Board. He is interested in cultural diversity and social change and brings a broad range of qualifications to include presentation skills, public relations savvy, program development, project management, community outreach, marketing/media relations, fundraising and management skills and is an OFC Emeritus Board Member. Chris has proven experience in cultural diversity and social change with strong skills in communications, business administration and finance management to drive results in mission planning, strategy implementation and bringing vision to fruition. Chris is, most importantly, the father of two precocious twin daughters.
Alma Soongi Beck is a partner in the Trusts and Estates Group and is certified by the State Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law. Prior to joining Lakin Spears, Alma was principal and founding attorney of The Beck Law Group, P.C.Alma's estate planning practice focuses on revocable living trusts, wills, and powers of attorney, which includes Medi-Cal and long-term care planning, IRA Inheritance trusts, and beneficiary controlled irrevocable trusts. For unmarried and same-sex couples, she also offers consultations on the legal and tax implications of domestic partnership, marriage, and property co-ownership. Alma also assists individuals and families with trust administration, probate, and other post-death administration of property. Alma regularly conducts public and private seminars on a variety of estate planning topics such as marriage, domestic partnership, estate planning and property issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) individuals, couples and families, as well as Medi-Cal, long-term care and IRA Inheritance Trust planning.
In recent years, she has conducted public programs for Our Family Coalition (for LGBT parents and families), Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community (APIQWTC), Openhouse (for LGBT Seniors), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Barbary Lane Senior Communities, and the Horizons Foundation. She has served on the board of Transgender Law Center, Our Family Coalition, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALiF), and the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California (KABA-NC). In addition to the schools listed above, for high school, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (1988).
Diana served on the OFC board from 2011 to 2016.
Until her recent retirement and move to Arizona, Diana was a human resources professional in San Francisco, working at MUNI, the Exploratorium, and most recently at the San Francisco Arts Institute. Diana was as active volunteer in the LGBTQ community and a foster care advocate before her move, and intends to explore opportunities for involvement in her new home state.
Diana holds a BA in Developmental Psychology from UC Berkeley and an MA in Marriage and Family Counseling from JFK University.
Ali Michael Cannon served on Our Family Coalition's Board of Directors from 2009 to 2017. In his professional life, he works part-time as the Trainings and Events Manager for Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative, working collaboratively with Public Health Departments across the Bay Area to address workplace bias. He also works as an independent consultant, creating opportunities for schools to gain competency in gender and LGBT equity with particular expertise in transgender inclusion. In addition to his private consulting, Ali is a facilitator for the Anti-Defamation League, leading anti-bias and bullying prevention programs for educators, students and families. Prior to his current roles, he spent six years as a School District Administrator, managing state and federal grants that improved the lives of youth without equal access to education. Beyond his district position, he worked as a non-profit education manager for 20 years. Throughout his career he has been a strategic visionary, well-versed in coalition building and systems-change.
Mr. Cannon has a BA and MA in Women's Studies and continues to bring his strong feminist and anti-oppression lens to all of his endeavors. In addition to his professional expertise, he is a writer, organizer, activist, and public speaker. A recognized leader in the transgender community, he has been invited to speak on various panels, and he has organized numerous conferences and events for the Jewish, LGBTQ, and Queer Jewish communities. His writing has been published in From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond. His provocative illumination of Jewish and transgender themes can be seen in the film It's A Boy: Journeys from Female to Male, and his essay (co-authored with TJ Michels) "Whose Side Are You On: Transgender at the Western Wall" (in Queer Jews, Routledge, 2002 and republished in Kulanu: All of Us: A Program and Resource Guide for GLBT Inclusion, URJ Press, 2007). Ali lives in Oakland with his wife, Jessica, an OUSD principal, and their 13-year-old son, Raffi.
Michael Ginther's most important and favorite role is as Papa to Kel (aka Emma) and Audy. He and his husband adopted the kids at birth 14 and 11 years ago. They are amazing kids who are constantly surprising and delighting their parents. Michael retired when Kel was born and became a full-time dad and homemaker. Before that he worked as a staff attorney for the First District Appellate Project, primarily advising court appointed attorneys in indigent criminal appeals. He also taught for 10 years at the New College of California School of Law. He has volunteered with many San Francisco community groups including ACT UP, Men Overcoming Violence (MOVE), On Your Feet Foundation (OYFF) and 826 Valencia.
Michael has been married for 20 years (well, committed, then legally committed and finally married) to Jim O'Donnell, who recently retired after 35 years as a pediatrician and hospital administrator. Their family has been involved with Our Family Coalition since Kel was a baby. The OFC parenting group Mamas and Papas was their go-to place for support and advice when their kids were young and people they met in that group are some of their closest family friends to this day. They have participated in many OFC activities over the years, including Michael's stint on the board of directors and his current participation in a class on parenting tweens and teens. He is honored and proud to support Our Family Coalition as a board member emeritus.
Dr. Vivienne Ming was named one of 10 Women to Watch in Tech by Inc. Magazine, she is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author. She co-founded Socos Labs, her fifth company, an independent think tank exploring the future of human potential. Dr. Ming launched Socos Labs to combine her varied work with that of other creative experts and expand their impact on global policy issues, both inside companies and throughout our communities.
Previously, Vivienne was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, pursuing her research in cognitive neuroprosthetics.
In her free time, Vivienne has invented AI systems to help treat her diabetic son, predict manic episodes in bipolar suffers weeks in advance, and reunited orphan refugees with extended family members. She sits on boards of numerous companies and nonprofits including StartOut, The Palm Center, Cornerstone Capital, Platypus Institute, Shiftgig, Zoic Capital, and SmartStones. Dr. Ming also speaks frequently on her AI-driven research into inclusion and gender in business. For relaxation, she is a wife and mother of two.
Phillip Parkerson is a native southerner who grew up in the Deep South in Georgia, went to college at UNC-Chapel Hill in North Carolina, and moved to San Francisco in 1988. After college he didn't know what he wanted to do, but he knew he wanted to do whatever it was in the most liberal, gay-accepting place he could think of. After reading Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, San Francisco beckoned him, and he heeded the call. In San Francisco he joined the Gay Men's Chorus and immersed himself in the wonderful culture of the city. He started a career in financial services in 1990 and is currently the Director of Investment Operations and Principal for a large investment advisory firm headquartered in San Francisco.
A lifelong dream of becoming a father led him to become a co-parent with a close lesbian friend to two wonderful daughters born in 1995 and 2001. His oldest daughter was the second child born from the old gay/lesbian parenting group Prospective Queer Parents (PQP), which met in the 1990's and was where he met the mother of his daughters. He originally joined the Our Family Coalition Board in the early 2000s, and served as Interim Executive Director of the organization in 2004, just prior to Judy Appel joining the organization. He is thrilled to join the Emeritus Board of Our Family Coalition to help support other LGBTQ families in the Bay Area and beyond.
Ora Prochovnick is Director of Clinical and Public Interest Law Programs and professor of law at John F. Kennedy University. For over 30 years she has specialized in LGBT family law, tenant advocacy and civil rights. Ora was a partner and founding member of Bayside Legal Advocates, a woman run community law office in the Mission District of San Francisco, and in addition to her teaching continues a private practice in queer family law, with a focus on adoptions, family creation and protection. She has a distinguished history of community service and pro-bono activities, and has received many awards from the State Bar and local bar associations in recognition of her expertise and legal assistance, particularly to the low income community.
She served on the OFC Board for eight years, which included serving as co-chair. She has also served on numerous other boards and committees including active participation in the advisory committee of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Camp It Up! Inc. Ora has been a frequent presenter at workshops and seminars, for both legal professionals and the general public. Without understanding how it happened Ora now finds herself the parent of two young adults, and is supported in everything she does by Rena, her life partner of thirty-five years (and now legal spouse) and their two daughters, ages twenty-seven and twenty-four.
A San Francisco Bay Area native and proud member of Our Family Coalition, James Raycraft is a husband, father and Emeritus Board member of OFC. James proudly volunteered his time and talents with the OFC community from 2011 to 2016. James and his husband, Mark, are parents to two transracially adopted children: Malia (five years old) and Felix (six months old), both of whom have been members of the family since birth. James splits his time, attention and dedication with his four passions – family, friends, work and community. When he is not traveling on business, James can be found in Hayes Valley at Mosaic Event Management, where James serves as the firm's Vice President. When at home, you can find James in San Mateo – at the park with the kids, trying a new restaurant downtown, or exploring one of the many unique areas of the Peninsula. James graduated from Loyola Marymount University and was fortunate to study abroad during his university career and later live abroad following graduation. While living in Los Angeles, James volunteered extensively and was honored by LA mayor Richard Riordan, Teaching Tolerance (Southern Poverty Law Center) and former President Bill Clinton for his work on race relations, community building, and volunteerism. James is proud to be a part of Our Family Coalition as the organization's work is vital to his family's safety, wellbeing, and future. James cites travelling as his greatest pleasure; however, his husband argues that his greatest pleasure is making and completing to-do lists.
A founding partner at Goodwin Simon Strategic Research, a national public opinion research firm, Amy Simon brings three decades of political experience to her work as a pollster and communications strategist on public policy, and a winning record on ballot measure campaigns.
Amy has a special expertise in conducting innovative qualitative and quantitative research on socially controversial and emotionally complex issues, including issues relating to LGBT people and families and marriage for same-sex couples. She is a co-author of Heartwired: Human Behavior, Strategic Opinion Research and the Audacious Pursuit of Social Change, A Strategy Guide for Change-Makers.
Amy is one of the leading architects of the freedom-to-marry messaging that helped propel Maine and Washington state voters to support allowing marriage for same-sex couples in the November 2012 elections. She has also helped craft winning strategies on abortion, marijuana, medical aid-in-dying, climate change, insurance reform, and medical malpractice, as well as other issues.
Amy has a unique background among the nation's top progressive pollsters. She was a community and field organizer, campaign manager, direct mail fundraising and persuasion consultant, campaign trainer, and political director before becoming a pollster. She brings that diverse political understanding to all of her message development and message delivery research.
Amy grew up in Boston, graduated from the University of Michigan, then spent several years working on campaigns across the nation. She worked for a decade inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway, before settling in San Francisco's Bay Area, where she now happily resides with her wonderful, rambunctious, and spirited children.
Catherine Teare is associate director of California Health Care Foundation's High-Value Care team, which supports policies and care models that align with patient preferences, are proven effective, and are affordable. She leads the foundation's work on behavioral health care, including behavioral health integration in primary care and behavioral health interventions for high-cost populations. She also manages projects related to the county role in health care delivery and oral health care. Catherine has worked at CHCF since 2011 and previously led the organization's efforts on enrollment in public programs, with a particular focus on consumer experience.
Before joining the foundation, she worked as a consultant for safety-net health care providers, foundations, and local government, providing research and policy analysis in the areas of health care financing and delivery, public and private health insurance programs for children, adolescent health, reproductive health, HIV, and youth development. She also worked as director of policy for Children Now and as a health policy analyst for the National Center for Youth Law.
She received a bachelor's degree in English from Yale College and a master's degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Deborah H. Wald is the founder and managing partner at The Wald Law Group. A Certified Family Law Specialist, her work has evolved over the past 28 years from a part-time home-based family formation law practice to a multi-disciplinary full-service family law firm. Ms. Wald's goal is to ensure that all individuals, families and children receive the highest quality legal protections available.
Ms. Wald has three specific areas of expertise: assisted reproduction law, parentage law and the law as it impacts lesbian, gay and transgender families. She has been involved in shaping California's legislative approach to all three of these areas.
Ms. Wald also is an experienced criminal defense attorney, having started her career as a public defender and then gone on to focus on indigent criminal appeals. As a criminal defense lawyer she largely devoted her energy to protecting non-citizens facing deportation or exclusion from the United States as a result of their contacts with the criminal justice system. She also was a founder of Women Defenders, an organization providing professional, technical and social support for female criminal defense practitioners.
A teacher and author as well as a lawyer, Ms. Wald uniquely blends a practitioner's experience with national and historical perspectives. Ms. Wald lives in San Francisco with her partner of almost 40 years and their big dog whose responsibility it is to make sure that no matter how busy Ms. Wald gets, she doesn't forget to start each morning by taking a walk.
Martin Mitchell is Human Resources Operations Manager for Oakland Unified School District. He's a transformational leader with a career marked by success in human resources (HR) operations, recruitment, policy development/implementation, and compensation/classification. He is a trusted strategic partner and senior leadership advisor, and highly effective around organizational policy, union relations, employment law, compliance issues, and complex legal matters. Martin received an MBA in Marketing from Clark Atlanta University, and a BA from Howard University. He and his husband are proud dads of a teenage son.
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Oh boy looks yummy!
I made this delicious noodle dish to warm up on very wintry day. It was created using ingredients that I had around the kitchen but believe variations could easily work. I added minced turkey for a heartier main course but it could easily be removed to create a vegetarian version of a great noodle dish.
Serves 4
In a dutch oven over medium-low heat, sauté :
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil (or vegetable oil)
- 1 leek, whites only, thinly sliced
- 2 medium carrots, grated
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
Continue stirring until vegetables are tender, then add:
- 1 lb extra lean turkey, minced
- 3 thai peppers (or 1/4 ghost pepper), finely chopped (optional)
Increase heat to medium. Stir the turkey-vegetable mixture occasionally until the turkey is cooked through. Be sure to break the minced turkey into bite sized pieces but not too small that it will be unmanageable to eat with chop sticks. Reduce heat…
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I went through the comments you all left, went out and saw those bloggers who announced my givaway on their blogs and went through my now 37 followers (smiling) and wrote all the names on slips of paper and put them in a big jar I have in my kitchen. Shook them up for 30 seconds and drew one out!
AND THE WINNER OF MY 100th POST GIVAWAY IS.............
Vail (aka "Grams")
CONGRATULATIONS!Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com your full name and mailing address so I can send you your prize!! Make sure you show us on your blog "Musings" what you make from those fun fat quarters!
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If you are talking about who's the best MC, "Biggie, Jay-z or Nas" always comes up in the conversation. Well in this case, Jay and Nas give their nod to Biggie in this new trailer for his documentary. The two talks about his influence in the Hip Hop culture and his uncanny ability of word play. Diddy, Faith and Mrs. ...Read More »
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This was a sign on the side of the road whilst we were taking our daughter to school. My first question was "wow that is a big golden ball for the new Buddhist temple". This was met with laughter from my wife which only increased when I wanted to go to see it - it is in Nakon Si Thammarat!
The first time I saw these balls was on Macha Bucha Day at Wat Vichit Sangkaram on the outskirts of Phuket Town and then I recall seeing them at Wat Khao Rang (Wat Thepkajonjit). To the left of the Wat and I never knew what they were.
Then I found out what the balls were - information is all from another blogger - thanks Mike Rose.
These sacred stone balls, usually nine, are called ลูกนิมิต in the Thai language and are placed at the four corners and other cardinal points of the พระอุโบสถ. With one stone(often slightly larger) situated under the main Buddha image inside the ordination hall.
The actual process of burying the sacred stone balls is open to the public and may take place during a temple fair or other festivities at the Wat. People are invited to to gild the stones by buying the small pieces of gold leaf used by Thai Buddhists in their devotions and rubbing the gold onto the exposed stones.
The monks from the temple may also bury sacred objects in the recess that houses the ลูกนิมิต. When the stones have been buried markers are then built over the location of the stones.
These markers, ใบเสมา, are only built over the externally placed stones since as already mentioned one stone is inside the building under the principle Buddha statue. The external ใบเสมา and their hidden ลูกนิมิต mark the boundary of the sacred ground that is the home for the ordination hall.
Thanks Mike - I now know what they are.
The พระอุโบสถ is only used for religious ceremonies, principally the ordination of new Buddhist monks. It is normally not available to the general public to use but many พระอุโบสถ are open for viewing the religious artefacts they contain when not being used by the monks for their devotions.
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As I mentioned in the post immediately prior, I've finally negotiated an uneasy truce with my treadmill. The poor thing has been languishing most of the past six or seven years, and as a result of that, it's developed quite an attitude.
I've never been much of one for deliberate physical activity. When I was young, our neighborhood had a plethora of young boys, but there were only 3 girls near my age. The first one moved to California, then the second moved to the north end of town, leaving me with only one other female on the street, and she and I just didn't share many interests at that age. So past the age of nine or so, my default leisure activities were reading or watching TV.
In my teen years I had mandatory P.E. in school, which helped. And during my days at community college, I walked 3-6 miles per day. My parents live near a large-ish lake with a walking path around it, so I'd get up in the morning at oh-dark-hundred, stumble around the lake, come home, get dressed, go to school then work, then come home and put on the walking clothes again, stumble around the lake... repeat as necessary. I weighed 122-123, and could eat anything.
It was revolting. Hee.
When I moved to Tallahassee for my last two years of college I was dragging myself all over campus on foot, simply due to complete impatience with the bus schedule. It wasn't deliberate exercise, but my body didn't know that and cooperated with keeping my weight at a good level.
That was all she wrote when I graduated, though. I held steady for a couple of years due to the grace of God and a fantastic metabolism, but after that is when my body started thumbing its nose at me, and I began the progression that finally had me weighing 200 pounds in August of 2006.
I hit a low of 145 in November of 2007 and I've been bickering and struggling with my metabolism and eating since that time, hitting 160 in January, then down to 147 in mid-March just before I quit smoking, and back up to a number I will NOT recount here a few weeks ago.
Suffice it to say, I'm back down to 159. Whew. But yeah, that got ugly there.
One thing I realized in this last period after quitting smoking is that I just have to exercise. No choice. I flat-out must do some deliberate physical activity almost every day or my weight will go back up and I will weigh 200 pounds or more again.
And that, my friends, would be unacceptable.
So last Monday, with the children out of the house with their grandparents (because one of my huge excuses for not working out is that the kids come out and stare at me as if I'm a creature in the zoo when I do it), I eyeballed the treadmill with no small amount of suspicion and climbed back on it. I only made it for 20 minutes that first day, but upped my time to 25 minutes last Tuesday, and have progressed to 50 minutes both this Monday and Tuesday.
My routine varies on it so far. Early last week I was trying to run and walk, with 60 seconds of running followed by 90 seconds of walking, but that wasn't going to work for too long. I want to try that again sometime, because one goal I have is to actually be faster than my delightful offspring. For now, though, I'm tickled pink that I'm walking at a brisk clip covering over 2.5 miles in 50 minutes.
And it seems that the physical activity was exactly what was needed, because the scale finally budged.
Whew. Now to just keep doing it.
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United and Sounders battle to a 0-0 draw
D.C. United and the Seattle Sounders battled to a hard-fought 0-0 draw tonight at RFK Stadium in front of 15, 651 fans. United now has a three game unbeaten streak after dropping the first two matches to start the season. Joe Willis recorded his second shutout of the season and saved the match with a diving save of an Osvaldo Alonzo blast in stoppage time only to see the rebound from former United player Marc Burch rocket off the crossbar to everyone's relief at RFK, including head coach Ben Olsen who jokingly muttered, "That son of a bitch", after the match when he realized it was the much scrutinized left-back who nearly laid a second devastating injury-time loss on United this season (Sporting Kansas City scored in stoppage time of the season opener).
United's defense, much maligned from last season, came out with it's third consecutive solid effort limiting the visitors to only two shots on goal through the rough and tumble match. Both sides were very physical, especially in the opening forty-five minutes with United being very fortunate not to have forward Maicon Santos sent off. After a deserved yellow card tackle in the 12th minute, Santos was nearly sent off late in the first half if not for the level-headed thinking of referee Edwin Jurasevic. Santos had made a seemingly legal tackle on Sounder forward Fredy Montero but was whistled for the foul. The Brazilian grabbed the ball and slammed it down right in front of the referee who, to his credit, realized the situation and probably didn't want to send a player off in this game due to an fleeting act of petulance.
United's only real chance at goal came in the 23rd minute thanks to some great work from in-form Nick DeLeon. The winger from Louisville blazed past Seattle defender Zach Scott and sent in a low hard cross that met the sliding left foot of Hamdi Salihi. The Albanian's shot slammed off the convergence of the near side crossbar and post much to the relief of the Sounders goalkeeper Michael Gspurning who would have had no time to even get his hands up had the shot been on target.
After the break, the Black-and-Red picked up the tempo and had the Western visitors on their heels for most of the second half. United came close on several occasions, the best being rookie Nick DeLeon's 22-yard blast in the 68th minute forcing an awkward punch-out save from Gspurning. Second-half substitute Chris Pontius should have given United the lead just five minutes later when sent in by Santos on a lovely back heel pass. Pontius glided into the box and his shot from the left side of the goal area skittered harmlessly through the goal mouth and wide of the far post. United's last effort to grab a game-winner came from a Dwayne De Rosario free kick in the 88th minute but the effort was just over the bar.
That last opportunity set up a rare chance by the Sounders in the 3rd minute of stoppage time that would have stolen three points had it come to fruition. Alonso got a hold of a ball out in front of the penalty area and sidestepped a United defender before unleashing a wicked 24-yard shot headed for the far side netting. Joe Willis extended fully to his right and parried the shot into the path of onrushing Seattle defender Marc Burch. Burch's reaction header rocketed off the crossbar and was eventually cleared by the United defense and nearly gave Burch a storybook return to the Nation's Capitol. Burch subbed into the match in the last five minutes and was met with a full-throated booing from the RFK faithful upon his entrance into the match. It was Burch during the course of the week who had a lot to say about why he was no longer with United and it would have been very cruel for United had that goal gone in.
United Notes
- Brandon McDonald was suspended for this match during the week after a weekly video evidence hearing brought about his one-game ban for his tackle on Blas Perez last week versus FC Dallas
- Andy Najar did not make the 18-man roster due to his midweek illness and him playing 5 matches in 11 days with the Honduran U-23 team that did qualify for the London Olympics later this summer
- While United got their second shutout of the season, they have failed to score in 3 of the 5 matches played so far this season. It could be argued that United has had the toughest 5-game stretch to open the season in MLS


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|EP on iTunes
05 Nov 2009
| Armada's new single 'A Line in the Sand' is now available worldwide at iTunes.
Beside 'A Line In the Sand' the EP features the song 'Baby's Come Undone' and the 'Atlas Mountains Mix of Morocco' which you can hear at the Armada's myspace music player
| Armada and Dangerous
05 Nov 2009
| WAYNE SHEEHY was drummer in cult Irish band Cactus World News but quit in 1989. He then went on to play drums with Hinterland and Hothouse Flowers, as well as a certain Ronnie Wood, Robert Palmer and Bo Diddley. Rightly proud of his musical CV, Sheehy (first on the right) is now in his own band - THE ARMADA - alongside former Tea Party frontman Jeff Martin and bassist Jay Cortez.
The sound of their debut album 'Armada' is full blown bombastic rock.
Read the full interview here
|Upcoming Oz Tour...
11 Sep 2009
|Jeff Martin here...
25 Aug 2009
To those this may concern,
The uncontrollable yet slightly foreseeable events of the last two
months has led to the unfortunate announcement that is the cancellation
of the Armada's first European tour.
I understand and sympathize with those who are frustrated and
disappointed by this outcome but at this time I would like to be
afforded the opportunity to elucidate the reasons behind this
regrettable decision.
The problematic overtones concerning issues of immigration are quite
real. As some of you are aware, my son Django was born here in Australia
just shy of 5 years ago. As the father of my child, it is my duty to
insure that his lively hood and well being comes before any of my
pursuits, artistically or selfishly ( sometimes the same thing...). I
have been, for months now,. in the process of obtaining a permanent visa
to remain here in Australia in order to facilitate that connection
between a father and son... Rock stars get no special treatment when it
comes to queues concerning the red tape of governments, nor should they.
If I was to leave Australia at this time during this period of
processing, it would significantly decrease my chances of obtaining the
visa status necessary. I have weighed the options, family must come first.
To quote an REM song.. oh no, I've said too much, I've said enough.
On behalf of Wayne Sheehy, Jay Cortez and I, we hope this message
restores some respect towards the ongoing saga that is the Armada. It is
our collective intention to procure the ways and means necessary to
bring the Armada, all guns firing to Europe and North America. There is
a great team behind this ship, dedicated and passionate towards the cause.
I humbly appreciate and greatly respect your continued passion and
perseverance towards and concerning the music of the Armada.
It passes over...
Yours sincerely,
Jeff Martin
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Meanwhile if you would like to order a hard copy of the album at Kingdom Records we offer you free shipping!
|Wayne's statement
17 Aug 2009
| I guess by now a lot of you will have learnt that our European sojourn is postponed due to immigration issues completely out of our control.I would like to apologise on behalf of everyone involved for the disappointment and inconvenience it has and may cause.We are needless to say very disappointed as well and i will be heading to Australia earlier than expected to start writing with Jeff as we are currently in negotiations with a North American label and need to prepare for our next studio release. We will be filming and recording during our Australian tour in November with a DVD and Live acoustic Armada album very much in mind for Christmas stocking fillers!!! ..We (Jeff and I ) will be blogging for the next few weeks and will have more to say on all subjects .Once again sincere apologys to all deckhands .
Sincerely WP
16 Aug 2009
|The tour has been cancelled due to unforeseen issues with immigration. The Armada will be using the time to start writing songs for the new album, and scheduling next years tour itinerary.


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Dat Phan
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|Dat Phan
Dat Phan in 2010 at The Punchline in Sacramento, CA
|January 25, 1975
Saigon, South Vietnam
|Stand-up, television, film
|Vietnamese American
|Years active
|Observational comedy
|Everyday life, self-deprecation, racial stereotypes[1]
Dat Phan (born January 25, 1975) is a Vietnamese American stand-up comedian. He first rose to fame in 2003 after defeating runner-up Ralphie May to win Season 1 of Last Comic Standing.[2]
Early life[edit]
Phan was born in Saigon. When he was a child, he, his mother, and nine of his siblings emigrated from South Vietnam to the United States. They suffered financial hardships throughout his childhood. He grew up in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, California, then spent his teenage years in Santee, California, a suburb of San Diego. Phan was voted most successful of his class at his West Hills High School ten-year reunion, and was voted into Grossmont College's Walk of Fame.[1]
In 2003, he entered the first season of NBC's stand-up comedy competition reality show, Last Comic Standing.[1][3] He was picked on by the other contestants due to his relative youth in the comedy world.[1] Nonetheless, Phan was the surprise winner of Last Comic Standing,[3] and subsequently has made cameo appearances in Hollywood films such as Cellular[3] and Love Is the Drug. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Dat Phan Productions released the DVD Dat Phan: Live and the CD You Touch, You Buy, in stores January 2010, and began pre-production on a movie titled Yellow Fever.[3] He has endorsed the Jade Ribbon Campaign established to fight against hepatitis B and liver cancer.[3]
In 2011, Phan was featured in the DirecTV campaign, "The Whale".
TV appearances[edit]
- Last Comic Standing 1 (2003)[1][3]
- Good Morning, Miami (March 20, 2003)
- Comedy Central Presents: The Commies (2003)
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (August 6, 2003)[3]
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (August 8, 2003)
- The Award Show Awards Show (2003)
- Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (December 2003)
- The Wayne Brady Show (January 29, 2004)
- Comedy Central Presents: Dat Phan (2004)
- Danny Phantom (2004)
- The West Wing (February 18, 2004)
- Last Comic Standing 2 (August 12, 2004)
- Super Bowl XXXIX
- Last Comic Standing 3 (2004)
- Family Guy Episode 59 - Breaking Out Is Hard To Do (July 17, 2005)[3]
- Asian Excellence Awards on May 28, 2007, nominated for Outstanding Comedy Performance
- Comedy Zen (2007)
- BET ComicView (December 11, 2007)
- The Tyra Banks Show Racial Stereotypes (September 30, 2009)
- DirecTV The Whale (July 20, 2011)
Last Comic Standing[edit]
Phan was the original winner of Last Comic Standing[1][3] and won in the finals against Ralphie May in 2003. In Fall 2004, he returned for the third season dubbed "Battle of the Best" which was season 1 against season 2. In the fifth round, he and May got eliminated and contestant Dave Mordal who would become the runner-up stayed in. The Season 2 elimination results had winner and future third placeman John Heffron staying in and Kathleen Madigan and Jay London eliminated.
- Cellular (2004)[3]
- Love Is the Drug (2006)
- Spring Break '83 (2008)
- The Hungover Games (2014)
- Sake Bomb (2016)
- Kong: Skull Island (2017)
- DatPhan.com
- Duck, Allison (September 30, 2009). "Dinner at The Peppermill with Dat Phan". Las Vegas Weekly.
- Duck, Allison (September 21, 2009). "Dat Phan Homeless to Hilarious". Las Vegas Weekly.
- Bloom, Stephen (March 10, 2010). "Dat Phan From Homeless to Headliner". Sacramento Press. Archived from the original on April 16, 2010.
- Attanasio, Ed (May 8, 2010). "Now Dat's Funny". Life on the Edge.
- "PHANtastic: "Last Comic Standing" winner aims to entertain Guam Audience". Pacific Daily News. Guampdn.com.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f Curran, James (2 January 2008). "Locally raised comedian Phan grateful to be working". North County Times. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
- ^ "'Last Comic Standing' winner Dat Phan plays Fort Myers". The News-Press. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Pang, Angela (16 September 2008). "Dat Phan Joins Jade Ribbon Campaign". AsianWeek. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2010.


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The 13th Century Ormanni estate is located right in the heart of Chianti, between the towns of Poggibonsi and Castellina. Proof of the incredible heritage of this Tuscan property can be found in Dante Alighieri's 'Divina Commedia', where the Ormanni family is mentioned.
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Written Reviews
Vice 2
Urban Decay
This palette is so incredibly awesome! I was kind of unsure about it because there were a bunch of neutrals (I have both Naked 1 and 2 so I'm pretty set on neutrals) and some colors that I didn't think I'd use but I'm so glad I bought it. The colors are all stunning--Prank, which sheers out really easily, is the only one I'm not in love with--and the possibilities for looks are endless. Even the neutrals have some spunk to them (Ambush totally blew me away: it looks super ordinary in the pan but GORGEOUS when swatched) to keep them from being too common. The array of colors means that you can go neutral or smoky or bright with ease. I love that there's pretty much one of every color (except orange or yellow, both of which I'd love to see done by UD). As soon as I got it, I did a random smoky look using Smokeout, Lovesick, Voodoo, Betrayal, Madness, Shellshock, Dope, and Habit--literally going "hmm, what if I added this next?"--and it turned out great even for a makeup newbie like me.The palette itself is extremely pretty, the button makes the mirror pop up by itself (which made my jaw drop from glee when I first opened it), and the mirror both stands up on its own and is big enough to actually use (which for someone who normally wears glasses like me and has to get up close to a mirror to do make-up is SUCH a plus). The only other gripe I'd have is with the double ended brush, which is kind of small for my liking. Still, it seems like it's pretty good quality.Overall, for $59 dollars you're getting 19 beautiful colors (and 1 so-so one), so I'd definitely say that it's worth it.
Naked Skin Weightless Ultra Definition Liquid Makeup
Urban Decay
I'm really annoyed that this foundation didn't work for me 🙁 I'm giving it three stars because lord, it looked beautiful. It made my skin tone even out and did a good job at hiding some of my old acne scars and redness. I loved the semi-matte finish, which had just enough luminosity to make my skin glow.Unfortunately, that's where my praise runs out. This foundation made me break out terribly within like two days of using it and we're talking huge, nasty, painful cystic acne that I'm only just recovering from. It turns out that it's NOT oil free, which means bad times for my combination-leaning-oily skin. Plus, even with a finishing powder, this stuff just melted off, even inside in air conditioning. Five or six hours after application, every time I touched my face it would still be coming off. This meant that although it looked perfect when I did it, it became more and more uneven throughout the day.I just returned my bottle to Sephora and switched it with the MUFE HD foundation, which hopefully will work better!
Urban Decay
I got this on sale from Urban Decay's website because I thought it would work great to help darken some lipsticks I have (particularly MAC's Rebel). While it works great for that purpose, it's definitely not very wearable on its own, as it makes my lips look oddly gray: it's not opaque enough to turn my lips black but not sheer enough to just darken the natural pink tint. It does add a very pretty, super-glossy, super glittery sheen on top of lipsticks though.Otherwise, it just feels like a typical Lip Junkie gloss: thin, nicely mint-scented, with a tingly feeling due to the plumping stuff in it (I find that the tingling comes through more when the gloss isn't applied over lipstick).
Urban Decay
THIS. LIPSTICK. IS. AMAZING.I'm only just getting into high-end makeup and had basically thought that paying 15 bucks for a MAC lipstick was expensive enough. However, Urban Decay hasn't let me down yet so I figured I'd try out these new lipsticks. I got this color and F-Bomb (which might be my new HG red lipstick because holy WOW, it's such an awesome rock star red color) and they are so worth the cost!I wanted a color somewhat like MAC's Candy Yum-Yum but not in a matte finish and Anarchy looked close. It's definitely a super vivid bright blue-pink. The lipstick is so pigmented in only one sweep--and that one sweep soaks every inch of your lips in color. I've always had trouble with getting color in the fine lines of my lips but this lipstick has no problem with that. Because of this, the lipstick does actually succeed at its claim that it makes your lips look fuller. There's no scent or taste as far as I can tell. The color also lasts for a really long time without killing my lips.I will say that though I love the packaging and size (it looks classy and feels appropriately heavy), I'm not a huge fan of the shape. I've got a very defined Cupid's Bow and the round shape makes it hard to color in that area without also coloring in the little divot between the Bow. I suppose that that would be easy enough to fix with a lip brush.End of the story is that this lipstick is AWESOME.
Lady Danger
Such a showstopper of a red color! It's super flattering on my warm skin due to it's orange tones and is my bright, sexy red (Russian Red is my darker red shade). Lasts probably 4-5 hours and leaves a slight stain behind. I would definitely recommend going into a MAC store to try it on before buying it as it is a very bright shade. It's a great shade of red for summertime!
Russian Red
A beautiful shade of red! I have warm toned skin and this is still very flattering on me. It's my darker, sexier shade of red (Lady Danger is my bright red). Even though it's not a hydrating lipstick, it's very creamy when it goes on and it's opaque in one sweep. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a great, versatile red.
Just bought this today because I was looking for a good nude lip liner to go under the lipstick I bought (I bought three different shades and didn't want to shell out money for three different liners). It works just great and is pigmented enough that you could wear it alone. However, it is somewhat drying so if you did want to do that, I'd recommend using a good lip balm or gloss to help hydrate your lips.
Viva Glam Nicki
Love love love this! I just bought it today as a random pick when I went into my local MAC store to find a good red lipstick. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did. It's very soft and creamy when you put it on though it's not a moisturizing lipstick (I have great lip balm that might help with that). It lasted about 6 hours on me but then again, I wasn't doing much eating or drinking, and it did leave a slight stain behind afterwards. You also don't have to put a lot on in order to have it be opaque which is great. Plus, it supports a great cause so it was totally worth it. I might buy another one. It's a great, bright, and fun color for spring/summer. I love the fact that it's a warm-toned pink since so many pink lipsticks are cool-toned/blue-based.
Sounds Like Noise
I was actually kind of terrified of this color but I bought it because it had so many good reviews. It was such a good choice! The color really compliments my skin (I'm pale but warm toned) and, according to my friends, lights my whole face up. It's very easy to tone down if you put it on lightly: by doing this, I can make it more coral toned than pure orange. I would definitely give it a try as it's a great color for summer!
I absolutely love this color. Any green eyed ladies should definitely check it out. It looks lovely blended in with a dark maroon/burgundy in the crease and definitely provides a good pop of color.


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555 East: Come For The Steak, Stay For The Lamb.
2010-11-03 · By Chandra Clewley
This economy has really put a damper on date night according to so many couples I speak with now days. While Long Beach's unemployment rate is staggering, the reality is this is more than just city wide, this is country wide. I would even go so far as to say, worldwide.
My husband and I were staring at each other on yet another "night in" wondering what we should eat. We have been attempting to budget a bit better, but we still feel the need to get out occasionally, and when I mentioned that I could go for a nice big steak, no special occasion required, just live a little and splurge, we both perked up at the thought.
I had heard that 555 East was a great place to get steak, and we were looking for a "pick me up" so we called over and made a reservation. It was an off night, but we were told we still needed the reservation and when we showed up at 7:30 p.m. we understood. The place was packed. What recession? The patronage was mostly business, your typical Polo shirt and Dockers crowd, and I figured it was probably the shipping, port, and refinery squad that work in the fluorescent lit offices overhead.
We were seated at a back corner, which was actually nice for privacy, albeit we were next to a group of about eight of these businessmen who were getting a little more robust and vivacious as the wine flowed forth on their jovial table.
Our waitress was lovely and clean, which is always a nice thing, being that good hygiene is always positively noted in a fine dining establishment. The restaurant itself is of nice décor, with a more intimate patio area, a main dining room that is reminiscent of a turn of the century establishment, with black and white flooring, brass hardware, and a wait staff to match. The room we were in was off the main dining room, and certainly a bit more refined with nicer lighting. I am always a sucker for white table clothes and shiny wine glasses, and 555 East did not let me down. I noticed a room right off of ours that was reserved for private parties and held a large wine cellar that was floor to ceiling and filled. Still battling pregnancy, I made a mental note to come back just to try some of their wine.
The wine menu itself was not terribly cumbersome, which I found nice. So many fine restaurants these days offer tomes with over 5000 wines, and can be intimidating and phone book heavy for the layman. The menu was as expected with various steak, chicken and seafood choices that are served ala cart and then side dishes to go with, such as macaroni and cheese, creamed spinach and mashed potatoes.
We were served a bread basket of delicious sourdough with butter and pondered what we were going to splurge on. In the end, we ordered the Filet Mignon and the Rack of Lamb, upon our server's recommendation. The Filet was tender and perfect, but not as perfect as the lamb which was delicate, savory and juicy. The only surprise was the mint jelly, which was exactly that, and lacked any flair that one would hope an Executive Chef could infuse into it. Perhaps the classic jelly was in accordance with the design aesthetics of the restaurant, but one would hope for a tad bit more originality on the accoutrements when the lamb was cooked so impeccably. For dessert we ordered the Meyer Lemon Tart which, while good, was perhaps an error of judgment after debating between the Apple Tart which perhaps might have been a bit more home style. The Lemon Tart was exactly what it was supposed to be, a lemon tart.
On our way out several people including the manager said goodbye to us, and that was a nice touch. All in all, we loved the combined ambience, good cooking and awesome service. We will definitely return to this Long Beach staple steakhouse.
555 East is located at 555 East Ocean Blvd. Long Beach (562)437-0626 for reservations, which we strongly recommend making. For more information visit: http://www.555east.com


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CLERMONT, Fla. - The Adrian College softball team dropped a pair of games on Monday to fall to 1-3 overall early in the season. Adrian could not get past Coe College, 3-1, in game one and then Misericordia rallied for a 6-2 win over the Bulldogs.
Coe College (5-1) got all it needed from Morgan Louck both at the plate and in the circle. Louck hit a two-run homer in the fifth and went 6.2 innings allowing one earned run with three strikeouts. Brianna Hull went 3-for-4 with a triple and two runs scored in the leadoff spot for the Kohawks.
Brooke Stewart evened her record at 1-1, but fared very well going seven innings allowing eight hits and three earned runs. Stewart walked two and struck out two as Adrian stranded seven runners on base. Freshman Jessica Sarch went 2-for-4 with an RBI in the leadoff spot. K'ya Toles-Burton went 2-for-3 with a double and scored the lone run.
Misericordia (2-2) used a five-run fifth inning to break open a close game in the second game of the day. Caitlin Crowley did double duty going 2-for-3 with an RBI at the plate and also throwing a complete game, five-hitter with no walks and six strikeouts. Kelsey Meyer was the hard luck loser in the circle as Adrian committed three errors in that five-run fifth. Meyer gave up just one earned run in six innings and struck out two.
Kaitlyn Hinojosa collected two doubles to run her season total to four. Hinojosa is batting .500 through four games this season. She drove in two runs and Karissa DeVore also had a triple and scored a run. Both teams left four runners on base.


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Who knew that rail trails would eventually become a thing? Just recently, we went out to bicycle down the Virginia Creeper Rail Trail in Damascus and I've blogged about a 5K/10K on the Dick & Willie Rail Trail in Martinsville. This weekend was the annual Apple Dumpling Festival in downtown Stuart and this year it was kicked off by a 5K on Stuart's rail trail, the Mayo River Rail Trail. Continue reading "Stuart's Rail Trail & Apple Dumpling Festival"
Category: Running
Martinsville's Harvest Moon
The main reason why I've never run the Martinsville Harvest Moon race before now was that it was a 10K that started at 7PM and I have never been able to complete a 10K in under an hour. I was afraid I would end up a lone straggler limping along the Dick and Willie Trail after dark. According to Athlinks, my best time ever was 1 hour and 9 minutes (when I was in good shape). This year they added a 5K and a virtual race. The 5K meant that I could expect to finish before sunset so I couldn't resist the chance to see the Dick and Willie Rail Trail.
The race actually starts on the Uptown Connection Trail and goes down .6 miles to join with the Dick & Willie. Mother and I got there early and had time to walk from the start of the race down to see the intersection with the actual Dick & Willie Rail Trail and back.
There are interesting things to see along the way on this part of the trail. DeShazo's Silo has a placard along the Uptown Connection Trail explaining how, although it is called a silo, it was actually an incinerator for the DeShazo Lumber Company which closed in 1971.
The Uptown Connection Trail intersects with the Silverbell Trail just before meeting up with the actual Dick & Willie Trail. The Silverbell Trail is a short trail, half a mile, but we didn't have time to see it and the artwork that is supposed to be along the way. That would have to wait for another day.
At the end of the Uptown Connection Trail, you can continue onto the Dick & Willie Trail but we turned around and headed back to get ready for the race.
I usually carry a small point and click with me when I run but I knew that light conditions would be too poor for that so I took a couple of pictures before the race with my phone.
Weather was perfect. They had two beer selections, Coors Light and something from Devil's Backbone, and music played on a PA system.
When it was time for the race, they brought out a map to be sure that the 5K'ers and 10K'ers, who would start at the same time, understood which way to go for their particular race.
The path was easy for the 5K. They had a water station where the Uptown Connection Trail met the Dick & Willie Trail that would point people in the right direction at the right time and there was a volunteer at a cone that was the 5K turnaround that made sure that we all turned when we were supposed to (the 10K'ers had higher number bibs).
I finished before the sun set and then caught this blurry shot a little while later of a runner crossing the finish line. They had an event photographer at the finish to take everyone's photo. His photos are posted on the Miles In Martinsville Facebook Page.
It was a good race and I would highly recommend it if you are considering running it in a future year. The Dick & Willie Trail is beautiful and fun to run with some company like this. For more information on The Dick & Willie Trail, check out "Virginia Rail Trails: Crossing The Commonwealth".
If you like small town races with local flavor, the next one coming up is the Run With The Cows 5K at the Chinqua-Penn Walking Trail in Reidsville, NC. Unlike most 5K's, this one is on a Sunday afternoon. While this is down in North Carolina, the history of the property there has some regional roots.
The Heat Index Hold
It's been difficult to get up and moving lately with the summertime temps. I used to enjoy running a 5K here and there but I'm the only one in the household that really enjoys that and, with Mother's move, there just hasn't been time. And then there was this humid summer.
I just got a reminder in my email about the 3rd annual Stop, Drop, and Run 5K in Stuart coming up on September 10th and the 2016 Harvest Moon 5K & 10 K in Martinsville on September 16th. Now I'm sitting here looking at pictures from past races and thinking, can I be ready by then? I'm so out of shape and its so hard to get going with the humidity and heat the way it has been recently. It's been practically tropical in southern Virginia this summer.
I'd love to run the Harvest Moon run in Martinsville because it is on the Dick & Willie Trail, a rail trail that runs all the way through town. I started (but did not finish) the Martinsville half marathon training in the winter of 2015 but I still haven't been on the trail when it is all leafed out because every single person I've talked to has said that I shouldn't go alone. In other words, I need a male escort. I didn't run the Harvest Moon in 2014 because I couldn't finish a 10K in under an hour and it starts at 7PM. This year they are offering a 5K and, if I can be fit enough to do that, it might just be the best of all possible worlds for me.
Martinsville has a pretty active and close-knit running community. Check out Miles In Martinsville for a list of events, training programs, and volunteer opportunities. There are a lot of good runners with incredible patience willing to mentor the slower runners (like me). There is also a Facebook Group called MHC Inspire that allows local runners (and mountain bikers, etc) to keep up with and encourage each other. There is a group that meets on the Dick & Willie Trail by El Parral Restaurant every Sunday morning (I'm told) and runs six miles. I haven't gotten that fit yet.
All in all, though, the running community is pretty much just as vibrant here in the Martinsville-Henry County area as it was in McKinney, TX.
I was worried when I moved here about running in Virginia. Friends teased me about all the hills. Although I did eventually stop running, it wasn't because of the hills. In fact, I've seen some of the most beautiful countryside here by running through it and no two races are exactly the same. The first race I ran in Stuart, The Strawberry Festival 5K, was fairly easy. The Caring Soles 10K in Stuart kicked me (if fact they sent someone out to make sure that I was okay).
Woolwine, which is an exceptionally hilly place, has probably one of the nicest runs in the area, the Covered Bridge Festival 5K, every June.
Woolwine is worth two photos. Absolutely gorgeous.
The Rebels 5K race in Critz (pronounced with a hard I) led me to find the Reynolds Homestead just a few miles north, if that far.
Even the Peach Festival 5K in Meadows of Dan was not bad at all and they are at the foot of the Blue Ridge Parkway. One guy even did it with a stroller.
There is also Run With the Cows 5K on the Chinqua-Penn Walking Trail down in Reidsville, NC on September 25th that I'd like to do. That's three races in September.
If I do manage to get out there and get back to running, I have a separate Facebook page for pictures I've taken at races, Runs With Camera. There's an album for each race I've taken my camera on. Most are in the Dallas area but, hopefully, I'll get at least a few more from Virginia.


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So we going to play mines bigger then yours?
Will our soldiers have to learn to goose step?
Trump wants to have military parades filled with missiles on trucks ,fighter jets flying over ,and tanks running down the streets.
Those parades over in North Korea look pretty stupid to me. Put when you think of the real reason they have them ,I can understand Trumps need. He want to intimidate not other countries but the American People so they won't turn against him. He wants all of us to fear him ,to keep us in line. Not going to work but he's going to try it.


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Hello again everyone.
As you will all be aware from my previous blog I am now repeating the lessons from Week 9 onwards as a refresher, and for a deeper understanding, of John Thornhill's methods.
In week 11 of the product creation phase of the Partnership to Success course we are all about research.
Research takes time
I have taken a little time away from my research so I can write this blog post.
However, your research should take you at least one week.
My Research plan
- Go through all my downloaded PLR files and purchased programs to search for articles or eBooks about my chosen topic.
- Study any videos I have already downloaded that will help me.
- Look at other blog posts about my topic.
- Visit relevant forums
- Search the internet for any related topics.
- Search the internet for any products that might be of interest.
- Look through ClickBank marketplace for information
- Visit JV Zoo for more information
- Study the sales pages of these products; see what I can learn from them.
- Maybe buy a product or two for research purposes.
I will be downloading what I can and making notes on things that I cannot download.
My Progress
I am actually on #1 at the moment. Lucky for me I have already spent some time putting all my PDFs into one large categorized file. I have printed off what I need and am about to start reading through them and making notes as I go. Or I could just highlight bits and pieces and do a bit of cut and paste into a waiting file. Please remember also to note where you found your information, for crediting later. You must not directly use another person's work, this would be plagiarism.
Until next time
Take care
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Lots of summer news on our community's site, including the Nuns on the Bus tour here in the East the last two weeks of June. The three major communities of women in Erie co-sponsored a rally Wednesday in downtown Erie in solidarity with the bus tour and legislation that would help the poor and needy. The Erie Times News has coverage, both print and video, on their website.
These "Miles from the Boston Store" posts are an iconic part of Erie's late 20th c. history. Here's one that still exists---3 miles east of us on East Lake Road. The Boston Store was a popular seven-story department store in downtown Erie, pre-mall days. One of my favorite Boston Store memories is of its elevators. Each included a little fold-down stool right inside, used by the elevator man who ran each elevator. Just wonderful!
Fortunately, it was never torn down as part of inner-city renewal programs. Today it is a low-income apartment complex, still, at least externally, the same.


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Fail2ban scans log files and bans IPs that show malicious signs, such as too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc. More information can be found at http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Install and configure fail2ban
- Install the fail2ban package:
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install fail2ban
- Open the configuration file for editing:
sudo vi /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
…and paste the content below (assuming you private IP addresses are in the range 192.168.0.*):
# 3 failed retry: Ban for 15 minutes
enabled = true
port = ssh
filter = sshd
action = iptables[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp]
mail-whois-lines[name=%(__name__)s, dest=%(destemail)s, logpath=%(logpath)s]
logpath = /var/log/auth.log
maxretry = 3
bantime = 900
ignoreip = 192.168.0.0/16
enabled = true
port = ssh
filter = sshd-ddos
action = iptables[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp]
logpath = /var/log/auth.log
maxretry = 10
ignoreip = 192.168.0.0/16
- Restart the fail2ban service:
sudo /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart
- Check the log file to ensure it is working:
sudo tail -f /var/log/fail2ban.log