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Even Justin Bieber knows it is an honor to be invited to the Met Gala in New York City. The 21-year-old sat down with Martha Stewart for August's Interview magazine to talk about that special night, his car collection and his current one true love. "I got to talk to Anna Wintour for quite a few minutes. We talked about fashion, and I thanked her for inviting me, because you have to be invited to the event," he told the lifestyle guru. "I know they use a pretty small list, so to be in that room with a lot of awesome people ..."
Awesome people like ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez perhaps? The brunette beauty was in attendance, but Justin's date for the evening was Olivier Rousteing, the designer of Balmain, much to the 73-year-old's dismay. (She threw in that she would have gone with Justin had he asked her!)
While their split seems to be for good this time, the "Where Are U Now" singer also admitted he is currently single. "My love today is my little brother," he shared at the time of the interview. "He's staying with me for the next week. So he's my love right now."
Justin has been back in the studio busy working on his other love — his music — with Skrillex, Diplo, a "guy named Poo Bear" and good friend Kanye West to find a new sound and create a personal album. His past relationship and experiences may just find its way into the album. "I'm at a place where I'm really happy, and I'm ready to share my music," he explained. "It's just very personal. People will be able to really get in to where my heart is. It's about my journey in life —stuff that I've been through. Maybe I can teach a lesson, certain things that are inspiring."
The Canadian-born singer, who graduated high school with a 4.0 GPA, has also been learning a ton about the tech world as he invests more and more in it. "Just the fact that there's such a big return," he said. "We've got someone who's very smart in that world who helps us figure out what's going to blow up and ... I don't know, I just like tech."
Technology and cars! He is also an investor in Westcoast Customs where he sometimes shows off any of his four cars including his red Ferrari, matte black Audi R8, Range Rover or his Maybach.
It's good to be the Biebs!
Justin's edition of Interview magazine hits newsstands next week.

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Can I have this craft room? And can my job be to sit in here and be creative all day?
This room belongs to the queen of crafts herself, Martha Stewart.
That is a dream craft room. Mine is pretty awesome, just wish I had a little more room. Eddie would certainly like the neatness and organization! xoxo
I love it too! We would all be in heaven if we had a room like that. Too bad we can't all be together and put our craftiness together and have a business! We'd have fun working!


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Renwick, St. Paul James McColley (TEEM)
Rockwell City, St. Paul's Rev. James Mossman
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Webster City, Trinity Rev. Gina Sterk
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Correctionville, Salem Rev. Tami Groth
Cushing, St. John Rev. Tami Groth
Holstein, St. Paul Evangelical Rev. Robert Lewis
Kiron, Bethel Rev. Jeffrey Hansen
Moville, Trinity Rev. Barb Spaulding
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Onawa, Faith Rev. Marsha Smith
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Dunlap, St. John Interim
Exira, Exira Rev. Steven Frock
Griswold, Faith Rev. Jennifer Yeske
Jefferson, Christ
Kimballton, Bethany Sam Jacobs (TEEM)
Kimballton, Immanuel Sam Jacobs (TEEM)
Mineola, St. John Rev. Luke Kuenzli
Missouri Valley, St. Paul Rev. Jean McCartney
Moorhead, Bethesda Interim
Treynor, St. Paul Rev. Chuck Meyer
Underwood, Underwood Rev. Scott Dalen
Seeds of Faith - Rev. Chris Lang, Dean
Algona, First Rev. David Grindberg
Armstrong, Nazareth Rev. Lauri Boysen
Britt, First Rev. Willie Rosin
Corwith, St. John Denise Lindemann (TEEM)
Emmetsburg, Bethany Rev. Peter Morlock
Estherville, Estherville Tim Johnson (TEEM)
Estherville, Trinity Rev. Cole McCormick
Forest City, Immanuel Rev. Rod Hopp
Graettinger, Bethel Rev. Chris Lang
Kanawha, Kanawha Rev. Geoff White
Lakota, St. Paul Interim
Rake, Zion Rev. Doug Rokke
Ringsted, United Rev. Lauri Boysen
Ruthven, Lost Island Rev. Peter Morlock
Spirit Lake, Grace Rev. Dr. Martin Lucin
Thompson, Bethany Interim
Titonka, Good Hope Rev. Kim Peterson
Titonka, Immanuel Rev. Kim Peterson
Wallingford, Wallingford Rev. Chris Lang
West Okoboji, First Rev. Perry Aalgaard
Woden, St. John's Rev. Kim Peterson
Winds of Hope - Rev. Shawn Brooks, Dean
Akron, Immanuel Rev. Eric Alm
Akron, St. John Rev. Trish Underberg
Akron, Trinity Susan Juilfs (M.Div. Candidate)
Albert City, Our Savior's Rev. John Mayer
Albert City, St. John Scott Essing (lay minister)
Alta, Immanuel Rhonda Wykoff (TEEM)
Alta, Trinity Rev. Denise Parrello
Brunsville, St. Peter Rev. Shawn Brooks
Cherokee, Bethlehem Rev. Jean Morse
Craig, St. John's Rev. Trish Underberg
George, Immanuel Rev. Sarah Deutsch
Hawarden, American Rev. Erma Wolf
Inwood, Bethlehem Rev. John Wolf
Le Mars, Christ Rev. Shawn Brooks
Le Mars, St. John's Rev. Chris Meier
Linn Grove, Trinity Rhonda Wykoff (TEEM)
Marathon, Grace Rev. John Mayer
Marcus, Faith Rev. C. Alan Cummins
Melvin, American Rev. Judy Johnson
Merrill, St. John SAM Ministry Team
Merrill, St. Paul
Newell, Nain Scott Essing (lay minister)
Paullina, Siloam Rev. C. Alan Cummins
Primghar, Grace Lay Ministry Team
Rembrandt, Our Saviors Rhonda Wykoff (TEEM)
Remsen, St. Paul Rev. C. Alan Cummins
Rock Rapids, Immanuel Rev. Dan Kordahl
Rock Valley, Our Savior's Ed Pease (M.Div. Candidate)
Sibley, Trinity Rev. Barbara Kopperud
Sioux Center, Hope Rev. Katherine Russell
Sioux Rapids, First Rev. Tonna Parsons
Spencer, Bethany Rev. Jennifer Henry
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Mining claims are parcels of land that have the possibility of producing gold if the owner cultivates the ground and any flowing water streams. In the past, prospectors physically staked out these mining claims as part of settling the western United States. Currently, mining claims must be purchased like any other land property; the parcels are normally divided into three different categories according to size and features: the millsite, the lode, and the placer.
Valid, recognized mining claims must be developed by the claimant; digging or blasting for gold must be partially completed to verify that the mineral exists on the land parcel. As a result of the land development, the ownership deed for the mine is claimed by the prospector and paid for accordingly. At this point, the claim can be developed more, sold, or remain untouched since the ownership is valid and documented. Many gold claims are still available for purchase, such as in some of the United States' mountain regions, or even as far north as Alaska.
Millsite mining claims are one of the smallest land parcels available at approximately 5 acres (20,000 m2). This claim type is unique since it is mainly used for processing ore into gold and other lucrative minerals; the miner must have a steady supply of ore to have a successful millsite. Some miners work with other claim owners to bring more ore into the millsite claim for an agreed upon fee.
Lode mining claims are larger than the millsite types, measuring about 10 acres (40,500 m2). These claims are normally small since they should have a large concentrated gold deposit deep in the ground; miners can only dig within the boundaries of this area. A main benefit to this claim type is the ability to dig deep. Hypothetically, this claim can be dug as deep as the center of the Earth to find the gold deposits; the property boundaries do not apply to the ground's depth.
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Rub inside and out a roasting hen with oil, salt, pepper and garlic. Place in a medium oven (325) in a covered container for at least two hours, uncover and bake at a high heat (400) until skin is crisp. Serve with new potatoes and early peas.
Pickled Shrimp Salad
Pickled shrimp have long been a favorite dish for alfresco occasions and lend a little touch of refinement to even the most modest events. Strictly speaking, the shrimp aren't pickled, they're simply marinated, infused with a tart pungency that works well on a warm afternoon or evening.
I recommend a larger count shrimp, nothing smaller than a 26/30, though a 21/25 is ideal. Boil the shrimp in the usual manner, taking care not to overcook them, peel and if you're the persnickety type, devein. For five pounds of shrimp, slice two onions and combine in a bowl with five bay leaves, a cup of sweet diced red pickled peppers, a cup of white vinegar a cup of vegetable oil (or a light olive oil), three tablespoons capers with liquid, a tablespoon each crushed celery and dill seed and coarsely ground black pepper. I often add a couple of diced ripe summer tomatoes. Toss until shrimp are coated, cover and chill overnight.
It's fashionable these days to serve pickled shrimp in Mason jars, but such a wonderful old Southern classic as this deserves a better presentation. Spoon over leaf greens and drizzle with marinade..
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Louis LeFleur, Frontiersman
Surprisingly little has been written about Louis LeFleur, who gave his name to Jackson's Pearl River bluff, became the father of the last chief of the Choctaw Nation (Greenwood LeFlore) and much of it is inaccurate, the most glaring error being that he was a French-Canadian when in fact he was born in the tiny French colony of "Mobille" surrounding Fort Condé on the Gulf of Mexico.
Louis LeFleur was born Louis LeFlau; since by custom Louis eventually came to be known as LeFleur, we'll use that name throughout to refer to him as LeFlore will be used in reference to his son Greenwood. Louis' father, Jean Baptiste LeFlau came from France in the early 18th century as a soldier in the Fort Condé garrison. In 1735, he married Jeanne Boissinot, a native of Mobile, who bore him three children before her death in 1752. Jean Baptiste then married Jeanne Girard in 1753 and Louis, their third child, was born on June 29, 1762. There are no records of Louis LeFlau after his baptismal entry of 1762 until around 1790, but it's certain that during this time he began trading with Native Americans, primarily the Choctaws, and likely operated flat-boats on the Amite and Pearl Rivers as well as in the Mississippi Sound.
LeFleur epitomizes those men of the American frontier who plied their trade along the navigable rivers in a wilderness before, during and even after the advent of steamboats and the eventual dominance of rail. In Antebellum Natchez James D. Clayton writes that "L. LeFleur (sic), father of a celebrated Choctaw Chieftain of a later era, operated with handsome profits the main boat shuttle to Pensacola, carrying produce and commodities." He brought luxury items to the prosperous city of Natchez, including "fine apparel" which "had been ordered from Panton, Leslie, and Company of St. Marks in east Florida." The boats LeFleur and those like him used were flatboats or keelboats that were manned by a crew of up to twenty-five people. The goods LeFleur routinely carried were much less luxurious used in his trade with the Choctaw, and the pelts he secured were sold in the trading houses at St. Marks and Pensacola. Corn and other farm products were sold in in Florida and Natchez.
Sometime around 1790, LeFleur cheerfully adopted the Choctaw system of polygamy and married both Nancy and Rebecca Cravat, the half-French nieces of the Choctaw Chief Pushmataha. LeFleur moved his growing family—three children were born by 1798—to Pass Christian, but with the establishment of the Choctaw Agency near present-day Jackson, he chose as a location for a new home a high bluff on the west side of the Pearl River, rising some twenty-five feet above the crest of the floods and extending along the river for several hundred feet. With the opening on the Natchez Trace under the treaty of Fort Adams in 1801, LeFleur opened a way station in the same location where traders, travelers and mail carriers could secure fresh horses. This station rapidly became an inn providing bed and board as well as entertainment. The actual site of this trading post is disputed. Greenwood was the first of the "LeFlau" sons to be born at LeFleur's Bluff on June 2, 1800. He was named for the Greenwood in the firm of Greenwood and Higginson who were the London correspondents of the founder of Panton and Leslie.
LeFleur still operated his profitable boating trade, securing commissions from General William C.C. Claiborne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the newly organized (1798) Mississippi Territory to carry "certain goods sent by the United States as presents to the Choctaw Nation of Indians." He also carried messages to the Governor of the Province of Louisiana. In addition to being entrusted with the delivery of merchandise making up the government annuity payments to the Choctaw Nation, Louis was asked to be present at the occasions when terms of treaties were negotiated. Louis "Leflow" is listed as one of the witnesses to the Treaty of Mount Dexter on November 16, 1805, which conveyed large amounts of land in what is now southeastern Mississippi and southwestern Alabama, including much of the western portion of Clarke County, Alabama, to the United States.
By 1810, operation of the inn and raising cattle had become LeFleur's main enterprises, and he, along with Louis Durant, was said to have introduced cattle into Mississippi. Travelers from the east and from foreign lands have mentioned the accommodations at the Bluff and at the inn he established in 1812 at the place now known as French Camp. At French Camp, LeFleur had a number of buildings erected and it was here in 1812 that Major John Donly, who held the U.S. Government contract for transporting the mail on the Nashville-Natchez route, suggested to Louis that he be allowed to take young Greenwood home to Nashville with him in order that the boy might receive an "American education", and LeFleur consented. Louis served with Pushmataha under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 and was promoted to the rank of major (brevet). He also served three months in 1814 in command of a company on Russell's expedition to Alabama. He later served in the campaign to Pensacola in 1814-15.
With the introduction of the steamboat on the Mississippi River—the New Orleans was the first steamboat down the Mississippi in 1811—commerce along the Trace fell, but LeFleur expanded his agricultural interests and in a decade tripled their acreage in cultivation and heads of cattle. Greenwood was elected Chief of the Northwestern Division of the Choctaws, but when Jackson was elected president in 1828 he pursued a policy of negating the treaties between the U.S. and the Choctaws, and with the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830) the Choctaws were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands. In a survey of freeholds within the Choctaw lands is a record for "Louis LeFlau, 300 acres in cultivation in the Yazoo Valley; five in family with four males over 16". Major LeFlau was to receive two sections of land according to the Supplement to the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty.
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was a tragedy for the Choctaws and it caused deep rifts in the LeFlau/LeFleur/LeFlore family. Details are sketchy, but Greenwood is in the fifth and last level of behests in Louis' will, which was signed April 16, 1833. Louis LeFleur died that same year, and while his gravesite is unknown, family tradition states that he was buried in Hot Springs, Arkansas, not very far from LeFlore County, Oklahoma.
(Note: This article is a brief summation of preliminary research towards a more thorough examination of Louis LeFleur and should not be considered definitive. By anyone. At any time.)
On Kale and Colcannon
According to the genius of ancient Greece, cabbages were engendered from the tears of the Thracian king Lycurgus, who was blinded and torn limb from limb by Dionysus "the raging god" for pulling up grapevines. Modern botanists have for the most part been unwilling to accept this perfectly rational explanation for the genesis of the cabbage tribe, which however widely consumed in the Greco-Roman world, probably came from the cool, moist climates of northern and central Europe, particularly the British Isles. Most botanists theorize that cabbages in their infinite variety are descended from the sea kale (Crambe maritima), and kale was probably the first variety of cabbage to come under cultivation. I'm sure there's a well-documented–albeit convoluted–line of inquiry that implicates Vikings in their diaspora.
All cabbages kith and kin belong to the genus Brassica: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, bok choy and sum, rutabaga, turnip and of course true kale (B. oleracea acephala), which translates as "non-heading cabbage"; this scientific tag covers collards as well, but collard leaves are straighter and smoother, whereas kale foliage is curled somewhat like parsley (kale in French is chou fries: "curly cabbage". To be quite honest (as is my habit) kale is what we once used as a garnish on the salad bar, scattering the parti-colored leaves of the ornamental varieties artfully between the containers of vegetables, pickles and whatnot in a pathetic effort to suggest the experience of grazing in a garden or meadow, which leads me to observe that even today more kale is fed to livestock than to people, hence the moniker "cow cabbage". But kale has made a spectacular comeback lately, particularly among hipsters and millennials who cheerfully disdain culinary precedence by tossing the leaves on a sheet pan and baking them in the oven to make "chips", which are just as dreadful as they sound.
This dish, thankfully, is far more edible, since the Irish—and more notably the Scots—have been eating kale in enormous quantities for centuries and consequently know how to cook it. Colcannon (note the first syllable is practically synonymous with that of another cabbage dish, cole slaw) is from cál ceannann, meaning "white-headed cabbage", and the recipe is as simple as the dish is hearty. Use one large starchy potato (russet) to, say, a packed cup of raw, chopped kale for each serving. Cut potatoes into chunks and boil vigorously until very soft and whip with milk or cream and butter. These don't have to be perfectly smooth; in fact, they're better a little lumpy, if you ask me. Boil the kale until quite done—this is one recipe for which you don't want to use blanched kale—drain and while still hot toss with a little butter. Mix the potatoes and kale together, season with salt and white pepper. Some people cook green onions with the kale, but I prefer them raw as a garnish. You can thin this basic recipe with milk or broth to make a soup or you can spoon it into a casserole and bake it topped with a semi-hard cheese. It is a traditional side dish with ham, though I'm certain it goes just as well with corned or stewed beef and of course leprechaun wings.
Crechale's Oysters Bienville
Nowadays most discussions—more often polemics—about culinary authenticity involve terms such as "the salience of ethnic identity" and "aligning broader socio-political representations".
These investigations certainly have their place in this global franchise we call a world, but when it comes to a specific restaurant recipe, we're on less esoteric footing. We know that at some point in time, at this particular place, a recipe was formulated, prepared and served, a recipe that became an archetype for any that followed, and our best means of replicating such dishes is to find recipes written by people who are thoroughly familiar with the original and have the wherewithal to replicate it with authority. Such is the case with Arnaud's signature recipe for oysters Bienville in Bayou Cuisine that's credited to Jackson restaurateur Paul Crechale, which rings with authenticity in the use of a beige roux to thicken, cream and egg yolks to enrich, mushrooms, shrimp and a hard dry cheese for substance.
Prepare the sauce by browning lightly in 3 tablespoons butter 2 minced onions. Stir in 3 tablespoons flour and cook, stirring constantly until the mixture is lightly browned. Be sure not to let it burn. Add gradually 1 ½ cups chicken consommé, ½ cup white wine, 1 cup minced raw mushrooms and 1 ½ cups chopped cooked shrimp. Cook slowly, stirring constantly, for 10 minutes. Open 3 dozen oysters and put them in their deep shells (my italics, jly) on individual baking dishes. Bake the oysters in their own juices in a moderate oven (350) for about 6 minutes. Thicken sauce with 2 egg yolks beaten with 2 tablespoons heavy cream and heat the sauce without boiling. Cover each oyster with some of the sauce and sprinkle lightly with equal parts of dry bread crumbs and grated Parmesan or Romano cheese. Return the oysters to the oven for about 10 minutes, until the topping is browned.
Shrimp Creole: Back to Basics
Without a doubt, the most maltreated recipe to come out of New Orleans cookery is shrimp Creole. The reason for this is that most people simply don't have an understanding of how the roux functions as a basis for such a complex dish. Much more often than not the roux is simply disregarded as a component altogether, and what you'll find served as shrimp Creole is little more than a handful of mealy shrimp drenched in a cayenne-infused Italian-style tomato sauce loaded with bell peppers and ladled over a pile of gummy Minute rice. Yes, tomatoes are an essential component to a shrimp Creole, but not a tomato sauce as such. The tomatoes give flavor to a much more complex stew that includes (of course) onions, bell pepper, celery, garlic and liquids. And sure, à la Creole to most people means piquant, but this does not mean hot; spicy, yes, but not hot.
Shrimp Creole is not a difficult dish to make; as with any recipe, you simply have to follow the proper procedure and proceed apace. First make a roux with a quarter cup each of flour and oil—not butter, not olive oil, just a light vegetable oil will do fine—cooking it to a rusty brown; some people will tell you to use a very dark roux for a Creole, but I prefer one a bit lighter (sue me). To this, while still hot, add two cups finely chopped white onion, one cup finely chopped celery and a half cup finely diced bell pepper. Do not over-do the bell pepper! I firmly concur with Justin Wilson who said time and time again that bell pepper is "a taste killah", and we both agree that you can never use too much onion. Many of you will recognize this combination as a platform for any number of Creole/Cajun dishes.
For a basic shrimp Creole to feed six people, sauté two pounds peeled shrimp–I recommend a 26-30 count–in a light oil with plenty of garlic, about four cloves crushed and minced, and a little pepper (do not salt). Add the shrimp (with the liquid) to the roux/vegetable mix, then immediately add two 14 ounce cans of diced tomatoes with juice. (In a perfect world, you'd use four cups of home-canned tomatoes, but I do not live in a perfect world, and chances are you don't, either.) Add a little water to this if needed to give it the consistency of a thick soup, season with a two tablespoons dried basil, two teaspoons thyme and a teaspoon each of oregano and ground cumin. Understand please that these are relative ratios that you can adjust with neither guilt nor effort. As to pepper, some cayenne, yes, and yes to some black pepper, too, but when it comes to pepper, the best rule of thumb is to add just enough to make a statement and provide a good Louisiana hot sauce on the table. Let this stew for at least an hour (I put it in the oven uncovered and stir it two or three times), then adjust your seasonings, particularly the salt and pepper. Serve over cooked long-grain rice; let me recommend Zatarain's, and no, I'm not getting paid for that.
Mississippi Statehood: A Timeline
Hernando de Soto and his remaining troops crossed the Tombigbee near present-day Columbus and spent the winter near Tupelo, reaching he Mississippi River on May 8, 1541.
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle explored the Ohio River Valley and the Mississippi River Valley and claimed the entire territory for France as far south as the Gulf of Mexico. La Nouvelle-Orléans was founded May 7, 1718 by the French Mississippi Company under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
The first permanent settlement in French Louisiana was founded at Fort Maurepas (now Ocean Springs referred to as Old Biloxi) in 1699 under Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, with Louisiana separated from Spanish Florida at the Perdido River near Pensacola (founded 1559 and again in 1698).
New Biloxi founded across the bay from Fort Maurepas.
Fort Rosalie—the site of modern-day Natchez—was established by the French. Natchez was to become the most important European settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley up until the Civil War.
The Chickasaw Campaign of 1736 consisted of two pitched battles by the French and allies against Chickasaw fortified villages in present-day northeast Mississippi. Under the overall direction of the governor of Louisiana Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville a force from Upper Louisiana attacked Ogoula Tchetoka on March 25, 1736. A second force from Lower Louisiana attacked Ackia on May 26, 1736. Both attacks were bloodily repulsed, and French domination of the Mississippi Valley fell into decline.
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. By the terms of the treaty, Britain wrested the area east of the Mississippi River from the French.
Phineas Lyman led a group of New England veterans of the French and Indian War to settle in the new colony of West Florida (then a territory of Great Britain) near Natchez on the Big Black River where he died shortly before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
Under the terms of the Peace of Paris (1783), a series of treaties between Great Britain, France and Spain, what is now Mississippi above 31° north latitude parallel passed to the United States of America, but a separate Anglo-Spanish agreement, which ceded both Florida provinces back to Spain, did not specify a northern boundary for Florida, and the Spanish government assumed that the boundary was the same as in the 1763 agreement by which they had first given their territory in Florida to Britain. Spain claimed the expanded 1764 boundary, while the United States claimed that the boundary was at the 31° parallel. Negotiations in 1785–1786 between John Jay and Don Diego de Gardoqui failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion. The border was finally resolved in 1795 by the Treaty of San Lorenzo, in which Spain recognized the 31° parallel as the boundary, and British troops were withdrawn in 1798.
April 7, 1798
The Mississippi Territory was organized. The territory's original boundaries consisted of the region bounded by the Mississippi and Chattahoochee rivers in the west and east, the 31st parallel in the south, and the point where the Yazoo River emptied into the Mississippi River in the north. Government was patterned after the 1787 Northwest Ordinance which established a governor, secretary and three judges to serve as a ruling council. After the territory's population reached 5,000 free adult males, an assembly could be elected and a delegate sent to Congress. Winthrop Sargent, a New England Federalist, was appointed governor.
Chafing under Sargent's autocracy his opponents presented their grievances to the federal government, which granted a second stage of territorial status to Mississippi, including the popular election of officials. In 1801 Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson removed Sargent from office. The new administration repealed all of Sargent's laws and moved the territory's capital from Federalist-dominated Natchez to nearby Washington.
The northern boundary of the Mississippi Territory was extended to the Tennessee state line.
President James Madison annexed land along the Gulf of Mexico, and by 1813, the Mississippi Territory encompassed the boundaries of present-day Alabama and Mississippi.
March 27, 1814
General Andrew Jackson won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend which destroyed the Red Stick Creeks as a military power. The subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson forced the devastated Creeks to cede over 23 million acres of land to the United States and cleared the way for an influx of immigration into the Mississippi Territory.
October, 1816
Prominent residents from throughout the Territory met at the home of John Ford, south of Columbia, to discuss statehood. In what became known as the "Pearl River Convention," the attendees—the majority overwhelmingly eastern section residents—decided to send leading territorial official Harry Toulmin to the nation's capital to request admission of the Mississippi Territory as a single state.
March 1, 1817
President James Madison signed the Enabling Act that granted admission of the western section of the Territory as the state of Mississippi on; the eastern section was organized as the Alabama Territory at the same time. The line of division, which still serves as the boundary between Mississippi and Alabama today, was designed to be a compromise between the wishes of western and eastern residents of the Territory.
July, 1817
Forty-eight delegates from Mississippi's fourteen counties met at Washington to draft the new state's constitution. The constitution established Mississippi's government and recognized Natchez as the state's capital.
August 15, 1817
The Alabama Territory was carved from the Mississippi Territory.
December 10, 1817
President James Monroe signed the resolution that admitted Mississippi as the nation's twentieth state. Territorial governor David Holmes won election as the state's first governor. Electors also chose George Poindexter as its only congressman and Walter Leake and Thomas H. Williams as its first senators. Alabama entered the Union on December 14, 1819.


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On January 1st of 2012, the wonderous fiat currency creation known as the Euro celebrated its 10th anniversary. While most purely fiat currencies in history have a life cycle of 40 years, this one, because of its lack of national hegemony, appears fated to not see its 11th birthday, or at best, be relegated to the fate of hyperinflation to stave off inevitable devaluation.
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BLUE FIRE - Jessica Williams, composer, piano; Mel Brown, drums; Dave Captein, bass; Scott Hall, tenor saxophone on track one and track eight
1 Blue Fire (J. Williams)
2 The Vision (J. Williams)
3 Soul Sister (Yusef Lateef)
4 Somebody's Waltz (J. Williams)
5 Blues 2k (J. Williams)
6 Kenny Kirkland (J. Williams)
7 Elbow Room (J. Williams)
8 Everything happens to me
Photos by Elaine Arc | liner notes
Total time - 72:05
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Review by Jerry D'Souza, All About Jazz
Jessica Williams is a no-nonsense person. You can hear this in conversation with her, you can feel this from her liner notes and you can sense it from her music. The attitude stems not only from confidence but also with being comfortable with her craft, something that leaps out each time you listen to her music.
In writing the notes to this record, Williams makes several pertinent points. One is that the tradition in her music will not go away while it grows and changes all the time. Who could argue when the results are as electrifying as they are here?
Williams builds several sonic layers enveloping each in reverberating passion. She has able mates in Dave Captein and Mel Brown who are pivotal in adding to the dialogue. Together they move like one well-oiled machine.
The title tune unfurls slow and sensual with Scott Hall getting his tenor into the thick of the melody before Williams traces the evolution with lines that dance lithely through a becoming tempo shift. Hall is also featured on Everything Happens To Me which flows like a gentle stream. It is at once peaceful and meditative.
Blues 2K comes out swinging. Williams shapes the progression aggressively on a hot bed of melody all the while propelled by Brown and Captein taking this one right into the metier of excitement. The tempo slows down for Kenny Kirkland. The tribute to the late pianist is a lyrical and heartfelt testimony. At the end of it all, there is one definite manifestation: this album says a lot and says it eloquently. -Jerry D'Souza, All About Jazz
Review by Ben Ohmart, MUSICDISH.COM
All but 2 of these 8 mega-jazz tracks are penned by pianist Jessica Williams, she of the light touch and boun cing melody, a virtuoso who places a lot of sensitivity and boldness where it does the most good. Consider the time of 'Somebody's Waltz'. Count carefully because it's not a 4|4, though you might trip over the furniture trying to prove the point.
'Blues 2K' is not frightening, it is measured in long piano rolls, a constantly swinging Mel Brown drum beat, and a busy improv nature about it. Should be. It's the longest track going, at 11.42 minutes, almost tiring you out.
Thank God for the acoustic bass break.
'Every note here is not the empirical 'right' one, not every statement profound, not every tempo adhered to strictly. Then again, every human face is asymmetrical. Beauty is not perfection. It IS truth, though.' So explains Jessica re: her music. 'This is definitely NOT museum jazz. Lincoln Center PBS specials may be mildly entertaining, but they do not represent the true spirit of jazz, which is growth and change and improvisation.'
She's right there. And she's also right that her kinda jazz does not 'take you back' anywhere. If anything, it brings you forward into thoughtfulness.
Nothing warms up the ol' brain more than the soft-hearted 'Kenny Kirkland', as close to a ballad as Jessica is likely to get. Remember, here's a woman who likes to keep moving; on the keyboard anyway. Give her a little 'Elbow Room' and you'll get back a 11.5 minute track that promises to deliver you there faster, stronger, with more vitamin content. E and B12 spring readily to mind.
That's why the last track, the Carmichael| Mercer standard 'Everything Happens To Me', is the marvel to go out on. Scott Hall comes back, and the bass takes on a different, smoother volume. Beauty to finish up with. After 73 minutes, you're not quite ready to go either. -Ben Ohmart (Assistant Editor) MUSICDISH.COM
Liner notes by Jessica Williams
I'm reasonably sure that I'm not the only musician currently asking myself "is my music reflecting the changes of the world around me? Is it still pertinent?
Does it speak to the 'now' of my experience rather than the 'then'?
Does the word 'jazz' mean anything? Did it ever?
And I'm pretty sure that a very few musicians are going to experience profound changes in their playing and composing, and in the direction that their music is taking. I certainly hope to be one of the lucky few, as I've felt for some time that our music needs to reflect our environs with greater accuracy. Passion and emotional expressivity are the foundations of any great or lasting artistic statement, and this axiomatic truth will not change just because we now have "global connectivity" and "digital hyperspace access"...but there IS a human revolution going on here, perhaps as great or greater in scope than the industrial revolution. Lives are changed forever at such times. Many folks are left behind; many attach themselves to the "new" without examining or preserving the value of the "old".
It's easy to jump on a bandwagon when there are so many jumpable ones around, and it's similarly easy to forget that our basic humanity will NOT be compromised by our e-mail program or our 56K modem.
Hopefully, the 20th century music we've known as jazz will become a viable and vital musical language for the 21st century. Whether or not this happens will depend on the musician's ability to respond organically to the world and its realities.
If jazz were to continue to be an elitist, male-only, reactionary social club with the social mores and philosophy of a right-wing extremist organization, I can pretty much assure you that it's seen its day.
Whole countries are finding out that isolationism and the curtailing of civil freedoms is really bad for business.
And our music needs to speak in broader terms, to larger numbers of people, in a language that they can understand. Frankly, business hasn't been all that good lately.
And I am incensed that some contemporary jazz musicians continually denigrate the intelligence of "the masses". Those masses include me, and I totally and fully agree with the consensus that most "jazz" being played today is ego-driven, megalomaniacal drivel. I'd much rather hear a soul or rock band do the "real thing" than be forced to experience the intellectual posturing of "real jazz musicians taking themselves really seriously and playing music that we really can't understand because they're so much hipper than we are."
So it's obvious that I'm rather passionate about this music and what it means in the century ahead.
BLUE FIRE is a convergence of the old and the new. The tradition in my music will not go away, as it is a part of my life. And the music will not stay in one place because it has a tendency to grow and change all the time. So here it is: the blues, the fire, the passion, the seeking...the echoes of all past experience with the edge of newness and invention. I've assembled my favorite rhythm section (Mel Brown on drums and Dave Captein on bass) and proceeded to do what we've always done best: play jazz.
Some subjective observations about this music:
I hear myself here playing "in the stream". There are plenty of places where I fall back into habit, and a few times where my ideas supersede my technique, but I'm mostly in the river that is the music.
I have been experimenting with tonal "cascades" underpinned by one or two sustained notes (using the middle peddle). They move rather quickly (or should) and this is the first time I've heard them in context with bass and drums. They remind me of circulatory-breathing on a saxophone, and occur most notably on track 2 and 8. I like the sound of these cascades and, since they constitute an approach rather than a technical "lick", they always come out differently. I also find myself enjoying the attitude of this album. It seems to possess a "reaching" quality that makes for many moments of drama. There's an eight-bar passage in "THE VISION" that goes totally strange, and then rights itself magically in midair.
It's also becoming clear to me that, when my right-brain drives my right hand, the music flows like water. It took years for me to even realize what my left hand was doing; it was doing precisely what it wanted to do, and it made perfect sense! Of course, my left hand is directly linked to my right hemisphere, the "intuitive" hemisphere. Getting the right hand (the one that sings the song) to emanate from my right-brain was not something I could practice. It happens when the instrument becomes an extension of the self, and technique becomes an autonomic function (like breathing). It is happening with increasing frequency and success, and it is why I return to this CD again and again.
I'm not thinking in most of this music. I'm not judging or editing or trying to impress or over-planning the design of my solos; their inherent architectural integrity (and occasional lack of it) is an organic byproduct of being immersed in the stream, the river of the moment. This is not so much an achievement as an event, a result.
The triad that arises as Mel and Dave mirror my direction (as I mirror theirs) is a joy to my ears. There's a great deal of history in our playing (Dave's walking bass-lines and Mel's classic streamlined drumming have analogues spanning many decades of jazz) but this is definitely NOT museumjazz. Lincoln Center PBS specials may be mildly entertaining, but they do not represent the true spirit of jazz, which is growth and change and improvisation. I hear love in this band. And lots of humor and recklessness and excitement and searching. Jazz is an imperfect art; attempts at perfection have resulted in just so much "elevator" music. Every note here is not the empirical "right" one, not every statement profound, not every tempo adhered to strictly. Then again, every human face is asymmetrical. Beauty is not perfection. It IS truth, though.
And just about everything swings seriously.
That this music exists is testament to truth in each of us. The music doesn't lie; there are no "maybe's". All that we are in our separate selves comes together in the instant we touch our instruments with intention. I hope that you can hear the wellness, the healing, the elation, the fallibility, the reaching, the PROCESS embodied here, and I wish it for you in your life and your pursuits.
I'd like to deeply thank Mel Brown and Dave Captein for being.
I'd also like to thank the immensely gifted young tenor saxophonist Scott Hall for making such an honest, passionate contribution to my music.
And, finally, thank YOU, dear reader|listener, for showing support for my continuing musical and spiritual evolution by purchasing my recordings, attending my concerts, visiting my website, and, above all, for listening.
JESSICA WILLIAMS, Dec. 1999, California
Personnel: JESSICA WILLIAMS, composer, piano, additional percussion on Trk #1; DAVE CAPTEIN, acoustic bass; MEL BROWN, drums; SCOTT HALL, tenor saxophone on Trks #1, #8. Running time approx. 72 minutes. Recorded on April 12, 13 at WHITE HORSE STUDIOS, Portland, Oregon. Engineer-BOB STARK. Digital mixdown at SIENNA DIGITAL, San Mateo, CA by RAINER GEMBALCYZK. In-studio photos by Jessica Williams, Cover photos of Jessica Williams ©2000 by Elaine Arc, Arist


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Kunming – Dali – Lijiang – Shangri-la – Daocheng – Yading – Kangding – Riwa – Xingduqiao – Chengdu
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The reserve is home of three sacred Tibetan mountains - Chenresig (Avalokitesvara, 6032m), Jambeyang (Manjusri, 5958m), and Vajrapani (5958m). Tibetan Buddhists believe that making a kora (pilgrimage) around these mountains brings great merit, and that the three mountains represent compassion, wisdom and energy - attributes one must cultivate on the path to enlightenment. Overnight in Riwa.
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Op-Ed: Occupy Movement Should Set Sights on Standardized Testing
November 14, 2011 at 4:00 am
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Publication Date: Sept. 2011
For much of the past decade, the New York City Department of Education has engaged in a variety of reform efforts, which have undermined public participation in the city's public school system. I was glad to see teachers, parents and students protesting with Occupy Wall Street on the doorstep of the Tweed building — the Department of Education's headquarters — last week. This movement belongs at the Department of Education. However, I think the outraged citizens have a real opportunity to shine a light on the root issue by heading uptown, to the McGraw-Hill Building, where standardized tests are created.
Reshaped by No Child Left Behind mandates and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's zeal for testing, students and teachers operate under unprecedented pressure to deliver rising scores on standardized tests. As a teacher in the Bronx, I saw these warped priorities play out on the ground with distorted curricula, burnt-out students and a creepy mechanistic atmosphere.
Teachers, students and parents against privatized education join Occupy Wall Street. Video courtesy of the REALNews Network.
A small handful of major corporations have cornered the market for producing standardized tests, McGraw-Hill being one of the largest in the country. The actual tests are only the tip of the iceberg of private profits gained from public education. The test prep industry is the new wild west in the education marketplace; the lack of regulation enables eye-popping carpetbagging. Standardized testing brings hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the handful of corporations that produce the tests, grade the tests and supply materials to raise students' scores on the tests.
With sky-high stakes increasingly attached to standardized testing, many states and districts are desperate to spend on virtually anything that promises to help boost the data — a practice aggressively pursued by Bloomberg and former schools Chancellor Joel Klein — and replicated across the country.
For a firsthand account of the incompetence and outright corruption in the testing industry, check out "Making the Grades," Todd Farley's very funny and unnerving memoir about his 15 years working at every level of the for-profit testing world.
A Hidden Curriculum Teaches Students Business Ethos
No one has laid out the nefarious rationale behind the policy shift towards high-stakes testing more clearly than writer and education critic Alfie Kohn in his 2002 article "The 500-Pound Gorilla."
According to Kohn, the cozy relationship between education policy makers and business leaders is guided primarily by profit at every step:
- First of all, standardized testing "screens and sorts students for the convenience of industry (and higher education)" and fosters a "corporate-style ideology, which comes to be seen as natural and even desirable."
- This leads to an educational environment "in which assessment is used less to support learning than to evaluate and compare people — and in which the education driven by that testing has a uniform, standardized feel to it."
- As a result, Kohn continues, "when many students perform poorly on these tests (an outcome that can be ensured from the outset, and then justified in the name of 'raising the bar'), these results can be used to promote discontent with public education."
- This makes it easier to point a finger at under-performing public schools and paves the way for privatization in the form of vouchers and for-profit charter schools. In other words, mission accomplished for those wishing to subject schools to the marketplace all along.
Participants of the Occupy Wall Street movement representing the 99 percent who are sick of narrow corporate interests dictating how schools run need to hop on the R train, ride to 49th Street, hoof it to 1221 Avenue of the Americas, and scream it loud: "We know what you're up to. You can't get away with the looting of public education!"
Dan Brown is a teacher and the author of "The Great Expectations School." He also blogs for the Teacher Leaders Network and the Huffington Post.


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Kaloud needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 5 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
We develop and sell innovative new products for Hookahs to people worldwide.
For almost as long as there has been a concept of the tribe, or of civilization, people have gathered. Gathered to share the experiences that shape who they are and who they aspire to be. They congregated around the campfires that lit the darkness of night; they congregated in the common rooms and taverns of yesteryear; and today, they congregate in the cafés and lounges of the world.
From Shanghai to London and on from there to New York and Tokyo, millions sit with one-another and share of themselves. They share meals, drinks, and… Hookahs. They laugh, they cry, they fall in love, and they forge new relationships—all as the Hookah is passed from person-to-person, a ritual rooted in our common history.
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We need labels for glass jars that will contain colored powders (each color is a flavor). Our product line is called Kaloud Pure and we currently have six Kaloud Pure flavors: Grape, Mint, Citrus, Berry, Apple, and Essence (our flavorless product).
Our company name is "Kaloud" and our product is called "Pure."
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Directions: Use 1 Heaping Teaspoon of Kaloud Pure per 10 OZ. (295 ml) Water. Swirl the Kaloud Pure in your Hookah Base or mix it with a spoon to make sure it fully dissolves. Take a moment to appreciate the amazing aroma coming out of your Hookah Base. We love experimentation so feel free to try mixing different flavors of Kaloud Pure together to customize your Hookah Experience. Enjoy!
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You can learn more about us at: http://www.kaloud.com
You can learn a lot about us by checking out our website: http://www.kaloud.com and also by looking at our blog: http://www.kaloud.com/ourblog.
Our brand is all about bringing people together so that they can share experiences and, by doing so, change the world in a positive way.
Here's some information on our demographic:
Kaloud specifically targets sophisticated young adults between 22 and 38.
The ideal Kaloud consumer is a fun person who is curious about life and all the variables that make it an adventure rather than something to endure. They have quick minds and can easily distinguish between quality and forgery. They want processes to be efficient and easy, but they love the idea of culture and some sense of tradition—Experience is more important than anything. They expect people to be fair and friendly and, in return, they return the same quality of personality. They love to smile and will seek out things to make them smile even on the darkest day.
Behaviors: They travel, or think of travelling, not to get from A-to-B, but from A-to-Being. They revel in meeting new people and are always ready to add a new face to the family tree that is their rolodex. They have a keen sense of style that is influenced by their own sense of what looks good and not necessarily by what the media tries to impose on them. They are more likely to be trend setters than trend followers, but this doesn't mean they can't be trendy. They live an active lifestyle filled with adventure, friends, food, and drink.


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The online marketplace industry is still very young. It is constantly changing and evolving—and as a result, being a part of it is very exciting. Business models, market opportunities, the funding landscape, payment systems, and many other parts of this ecosystem are in a continuous state of flux. In order to remain on top of things, it is a good idea to follow the people who are shaping and analyzing the industry.
We have gathered three lists of people to follow along with their active platforms. These lists are, of course, subjective and by no means complete. Many of these people inspired us while we wrote the Marketplace guide and other articles for the Marketplace Academy. Each list represents a perspective on the industry:
This is the first list, with marketplace investors. Also have a look at our lists of most important marketplace thought leaders and our favorite marketplace founder & CEOs in the next few days. So bookmark, follow, add to your feed, or do whatever you deem necessary to stay in the loop with these people. We have collected all the ones mentioned here in one Twitter-list.
Marketplace investors
If your idea and target market are big enough, you might consider raising venture capital or taking on an angel investor to grow your business. But even if this is not the case, following these ten marketplace investors can give you crucial insight into how to grow your business and where the industry is heading.
Simon Rothman – Twitter | Blog
Partner at Greylock Partners, who specialize in online marketplaces. They have invested in Airbnb, EatWith, GoFundme, and most recently Convoy. Read his excellent essay "Network effects aren't enough.
Bill Gurley – Twitter | Quora
General partner at the Benchmark VC firm, who invested in Uber, Zillow, Opentable and Grubhub (among others). He writes a lot about marketplaces. His two classic posts are A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy and All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces.
Boris Wertz – Twitter | Quora
Founder and general partner at Version one ventures. He previously founded book marketplace JustBooks, which was acquired by AbeBooks, which in turn got sold to Amazon. He writes a lot about marketplaces. Together with others at Version One, he created a great spreadsheet of Marketplace KPIs and a guide to marketplaces.
James Currier – Twitter
Founder of NFX Guild, an accelerator that focuses on marketplaces and other network-effect businesses, such as Lyft and Poshmark. Read his article about The NFX Marketplace Scorecard.
Jeff Jordan – Twitter
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, former CEO of OpenTable and former senior vice president at eBay North America. He writes and talks a lot about marketplaces, such as "How to manage tensions in online marketplaces".
Craig Shapiro – Twitter
Founder and managing partner of Collaborative Fund, which has invested in many collaborative economy marketplaces (Lyft, Kickstarter, TaskRabbit, Thumbtack, UpCounsel). He focuses on businesses that make the world a better place.
Brad Burnham – Twitter
Managing partner of Union Square Ventures, who invested in marketplaces like Etsy and La Ruche qui dit Oui! He has interesting thoughts on the future of marketplaces.
Tristan Pollock – Twitter
Currently a venture partner at 500 Startups, and previously the founder of Storefront. He started Marketplace dinners where marketplace entrepreneurs can meet one another. He regularly writes about marketplaces and also started a great Marketplaces facebook group. We recently interviewed him for the Academy.
Nicolas Debock – Twitter
Principal at Balderton Capital and formerly of XAnge. He specializes in the sharing economy. XAnge has invested in companies such as Etsy, Peerby, La Ruche qui dit Oui!, and A Little Market.
Point Nine Capital – Twitter | Medium
The last one on the list is not actually a person, but a very interesting VC firm. Point Nine invests in early-stage SaaS & marketplace businesses, and openly share a lot of information and spreadsheets, such as their analysis of the growing SaaS-enabled marketplace eco-system.
Of course, don't forget to follow @Sharetribe on Twitter, where we share the best marketplace-related articles on a daily basis. By signing up for the Marketplace Academy mailing list, you'll also get notified of new content targeted at helping marketplace entrepreneurs succeed with their business.
If you feel that someone crucial is missing from our list, please e-mail email@example.com. We'll be sure to add them to our next edition of the list.


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She loves travelling the world just as she loves good ideas. She is a co-founder of TREND//GRUPA - a trend research project focusing on emerging trends and new talents in fashion industry and design.
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This beautiful ring belongs to the Cartier's Trinity collection, a line that embodies love, fidelity, and friendship through the tri-band. This vintage piece dates back to 1998 and is crafted from 18k yellow gold. The ring flaunts three interlocking rings; while two of them are sculpted in a slender shape, the third one is a little broader and is engraved boldly with "Or Amour Et Trinity." The insides of the band are detailed with hallmarks. Make it your everyday darling to complete your ensembles with a luxuriously classy style.
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Ring Size: EU 51 - US 5.75
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As ridiculous as it sounds, I had to give it a go. Grilled cheese and (red delicious) Apple on Pumpernickel bread.
As it turns out it was so damn good. It really doesn't look it, but I wasn't going for presentation on this first go. I was going to make another, but I ate the rest of the apple while I waited for this one to cook.
If you give it a go, cut the apple slices thin so they cook nice and hot. When they cook it brings out the super sweetness of them.
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'Where do babies come from?' Through generations, parents have time and again faced this moment of truth when they are asked direct questions about sex and reproduction by their children. No one can actually specify an age when children are likely to bombard you with such questions. Queries relating to sex, sexuality, pregnancy, periods, sexual organs, sexual preferences and other issues can come up randomly and you need to tackle them, no matter how embarrassed you feel discussing these issues with your child. So, don't panic, if you are caught unawares. Here's how you can manage the situation:
Don't dodge
If you think that you are going to avert the danger just by dodging the questions or diverting your child's attention, you are wrong. In all probability, your child will ask these questions again or, worse, can go to others with such queries. Therefore, be ready to answer the questions.
Be factual
Of course, how factual you can possibly be depends on your child's age. You cannot possibly go deep into the biological lessons when your child is just 10 years old. Just be simple, lucid and gentle. Don't scold your child if he or she is ready with a few more questions on the subject. Don't talk or explain more than is necessary.
Read together
Experts say that parents can read a book, that deals with the science of it all, together with their children. The idea is to learn about sex in a scientific and factual manner. It should be a matter-of-fact engagement.
Ask teachers
Most schools are likely to arrange for sex education classes these days. If you feel bewildered and totally at a loss as to how you can handle sex questions from your children, take help of teachers. Ask them how they handle the subject.
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Should you explain things to your child by citing instances from your own sex life? Experts say no. There are certain boundaries between parents and children; don't overstep boundaries by discussing your personal sex experiences with your child.
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Portland Classic Guitar 2015-2016 Series
The Portland Guitar Society supports all kinds of guitar concerts, master classes, workshops, guitar festivals....All Things Guitar. Ten years ago, one of our members, William Jenks, opened Portland Classic Guitar, a guitar store, as well as a lesson and concert venue, and launched an outstanding classic guitar concert series. PGS has been an active and proud sponsor of the series since 2007. Over the years, Mr. Jenks has brought some of the world's most accomplished classical guitarists to Portland to perform and teach. To name just a few: John Williams, Pepe Romero, Angel Romero, Eliot Fisk, David Russell, Ana Vidouvic, Jason Vieaux, Jonathan Leathwood, Denis Azabagic, Scott Tennant, William Kanengiser, the Paris Guitar Duo, Berta Rojas, and many, many others. In addition, many of our own fine Portland-based classical guitarists such as the Oregon Guitar Quartet (David Franzen, Bryan Johanson, Jesse McCann, and John Mery), Peter Zisa, Scott Kritzer, and Jeff Ashton have performed on the series.
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Hi everyone - one more month then I'll be in Aruba! I really can't wait. I was wondering how much cash should I bring with us? I'm going with my fiance and we have the following events booked - ATV Mania, Kukoo Kunuku, and Sunset Sail but I have no idea how much money we should bring all together.
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The fool makes a brief, but memorable, appearance during Hythloday's story of the Cardinal's dinner party, where he ends up rather badly insulting another guest, the friar. Wondering why in the world this poor guy is being referred to as a fool? Check out "Fools" under Symbols, Allegory, and Imagery to get the full story (hint: they're not as foolish as they sound).
Like most fools, this fool primarily functions as a way of revealing not his own foolishness, but actually the foolishness of everyone else; here, that would be the friar. As the fool makes fun of the friar, it becomes clear that the fool knows just as much Biblical stuff as the friar (who, um, should probably know more) and shows that this friar is a total hypocrite.
Brain snack: hypocrite! Another handy-dandy Greek word—not invented by More this time—that describes someone who says one thing and does another. You know, like a dentist who's always snacking on candy, or, uh, a friar who doesn't know the Bible that well...
In fact, the more the friar tries to defend himself, the more ridiculous he looks—that's the power of the fool. And the Cardinal calls the friar out on this:
"'Perhaps you mean well,' said the Cardinal, 'but I think you would act in a more holy, and certainly in a wiser way, if you didn't set your wit against a fool's wit and try to spar with a professional jester.'" (2.27)
Other than exposing the hypocrisy of some Catholic ministers (this was something More really hated), the fool is also an example of the very issue that More, Hythloday, and Giles have been debating: how can you influence figures of authority? Well, the fool is one possibility because he can use his joking tone to deliver devastating criticisms. Chew on that.


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OverlandIf youre looking for adventure, an opportunity to travel with like-minded travellers and to get off the beaten track then this type of trip is for you! We will sometimes be covering long distances over a period of a few days but will then most often be camped up for a few days with opportunities for adventure activities, visiting local communities, time in a town or city to chill out or wildlife viewing experiences. The roads are sometimes bumpy and you need to expect the unexpected! This type of travel is through regions where things can change and experiences are more important than luxury borders sometimes close and there may not always be hot water in the showers! You will generally be camping out under the stars, sometimes out in the bush, but generally more on campsites. (Our South America and Central Asia trips also use small locally-run hostels and guest houses). The trips are fully participative so you will be involved shopping for food in local markets, cooking for your group (on a rota system), collecting water and setting up camp. If youre not confident about doing any of these things beforehand, dont worry our crew are there to help you and youll be good at it by the time you finish!
You will be travelling on one of our own purpose built overlanding vehicles with up to 24 travellers, many of whom will be travelling on their own. It is a great way for solo travellers to travel. We have lost count of the number of travellers who have met their future spouse on one of our trips! Our vehicles are fully equipped with tents and cooking equipment and are designed for great all-round viewing and a sociable seating plan. You will be accompanied on your trip by a Driver and Tour Leader and, depending on your trip, we often use local guides at sites of specific interest for more detailed information.
This type of travel will provide you with a plethora of memories and stories to tell, new-found travelling companions and friends and a well-exercised spirit of adventure!
Responsible tourism
Northern Pakistan overland tour
Carbon reduction
Your holiday will help support local people and conservation. We must also reduce CO2. Learn about the CO2 emissions of this holiday and how to reduce them.
Water: Northern Pakistan thrives on the melt water from the huge glaciers running down steep valleys in the Hindu Kush, Karakorum and Himalayan ranges. Using age old basic technology this water has been harnessed using hand dug channels, where it irrigates crops, powers a variety of mills and gets used for drinking. We take our travellers to see these channels first hand to fully appreciate their importance and the devastating effects climate change is having on this region. We encourage travellers to filter tap water where possible to avoid buying plastic bottles. Where plastic bottles have to be used, these are supplied by us and disposed of in the correct manner.
Transport / people: We use locally hand built jeeps that are well maintained with engines adjusted to altitude. All this means less unburned diesel and less pollutants in to the atmosphere. By using 3 person jeeps we also make a low impact on the delicate road structure and small settlements we visit.
Suppliers: Due to the fallout from 9/11, all tourism suppliers in Pakistan have seen virtually no travellers in recent years. The local people are some of the friendliest in the world and by visiting their shops and markets and using local guides and suppliers, we can start to help these people rebuild their lives.
Our aim on all our trips is put as much of the trip costs as possible directly back into the local communities in which we travel. As such ,we run this trip in conjunction with a local operator and your crew will be local Pakistanis. We stay at small locally run guest houses and all meals are sourced locally.
Our group sizes are deliberately very small, generally just 2 or 3 travellers, in order to minimise our impact -both socially and environmentally. Your guide will make sure you are aware of and respect local customs and traditions.
Our first point of call on this trip is to buy suitable clothing to undertake the trip that fits in with local traditional dress. Your crew will take you to places where you can visit local bazaars and artisans at work and any purchases you make will further support the local community.
We include a variety of elements in our tour to show everyday life in this remote part of the world. We visit one of the famous suspension foot bridges, which is the only way for locals to cross a 100 metre wide gorge. One other highlight is walking on a glacier to see and discuss how these are retreating and what impact this is having on communities. Using local specialist guides where necessary also ensures money is going back in to these small areas.
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