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Unmanned spacecraft taking images of Jupiter's moon Europa have found its surface to be very smooth with few meteorite craters. Europa's surface ice shows evidence of being continually resmoothed and reshaped. Cracks, dark bands, and pressure ridges (created when water or slush is squeezed up between 2 slabs of ice) are commonly seen in images of the surface. Two scientists express their views as to whether the presence of a deep ocean beneath the surface is responsible for Europa's surface features.
Scientist 1
A deep ocean of liquid water exists on Europa. Jupiter's gravitational field produces tides within Europa that can cause heating of the subsurface to a point where liquid water can exist. The numerous cracks and dark bands in the surface ice closely resemble the appearance of thawing ice covering the polar oceans on Earth. Only a substantial amount of circulating liquid water can crack and rotate such large slabs of ice. The few meteorite craters that exist are shallow and have been
smoothed by liquid water that oozed up into the crater from the subsurface and then quickly froze.
Jupiter's magnetic field, sweeping past Europa, would interact with the salty, deep ocean and produce a second magnetic field around Europa. The spacecraft has found evidence of this second magnetic field.
Scientist 2
No deep, liquid water ocean exists on Europa. The heat generated by gravitational tides is quickly lost to space because of Europa's small size, as shown by its very low surface temperature (–160°C). Many of the features on Europa's surface resemble features created by flowing glaciers on Earth. Large amounts of liquid water are not required for the creation of these features. If a thin layer of ice below the surface is much warmer than the surface ice, it may be able to flow and cause cracking and movement of the surface ice. Few meteorite craters are observed because of Europa's very thin atmosphere; surface ice continually sublimes (changes from solid to gas) into this atmosphere, quickly eroding and removing any craters that may have formed.
1. Which of the following best describes how the 2 scientists explain how craters are removed from Europa's surface?
2. According to the information provided, which of the following descriptions of Europa would be accepted by both scientists?
3. With which of the following statements about the conditions on Europa or the evolution of Europa's surface would both Scientist 1 and Scientist 2 most likely agree? The surface of Europa:
4. Which of the following statements about meteorite craters on Europa would be most consistent with both scientists' views?
5. Scientist 2 explains that ice sublimes to water vapor and enters Europa's atmosphere. If ultraviolet light then broke those water vapor molecules apart, which of the following gases would one most likely expect to find in Europa's atmosphere as a result of this process?
6. Based on the information in Scientist 1's view, which of the following materials must be present on Europa if a magnetic field is to be generated on Europa?
7. Assume Scientist 2's view about the similarities between Europa's surface features and flowing glaciers on Earth is correct. Based on this assumption and the information provided, Earth's glaciers would be least likely to exhibit which of the following features?
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More More Cha, Darling Harbour
There seems to be a lot of new Malaysian restaurants opening up in Sydney – More More Cha, Nonya (which is oddly above More More Cha) and Petaling Street. I must admit, I have been on the hunt for GOOD Malaysian restaurants in Sydney CBD and can't wait to try the others. More More Cha is apparently the sister restaurant of Mamak Village in Glebe, which I have yet to go too. It was relatively busy for a Friday night, the restaurant is very spacious, lots of outdoor seating (although if it rains, I think they would lose a lot of customers!).
The menu is vast, lots of delicious Malaysian dishes ranging from appetizers, soup and roti, rice, noodle, seafood, poultry and many more. I left all the ordering to 'The Mother', I really couldn't decide.
'The Mother' started with a cold teh tarik ($3.50), it wasn't really that cold to be honest which was a shame. I do prefer it to be served in a cold metallic glass.
'The Mother' loves Kapitan Chicken ($17), traditional Nyonya flavoured chicken curry with potatoes. Large chunks of chicken which were tender, the curry was a little thicker than norm but it wasn't too bad, it had the right amount of spiciness.
I am not sure why we didn't get roti as the curry would be perfect with roti.
Kangkong balacan ($14.90), morning glory veggie with sambal balancan. This was a little weird I thought, served with onions, there wasn't a very strong balancan flavour or taste. It was OK I thought, I have definitely had better.
We also got a serve of the Penang Koay Tewo Kerang ($14.90), Penang very popular dish wok fried rice cake strips with clams, prawns, eggs, chives and crunchy bean sprouts. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of this, but you read correctly, there were clams, not fresh clams though, they were canned. Not a lot of prawns, think there were only four, and it didn't have a very strong wok smell which was a shame. It was good but have definitely had better.
I couldn't help but get dessert. Durian panna cotta ($6.90) was calling my name. 'The Mother' was rolling his eyes, pulling faces, and saying how I will need to sleep in the spare bedroom as he HATES durian and can't stand the smell of it.
Fortunately for him, the durian panna cotta was a disappointment. You can't even smell a hint of durian and lacked that wonderful durian flavour. It was like eating a vanilla panna cotta! VERY very disappointing.
I noticed others having ice kacang and it did look good. I didn't see the selection of kuih, but keen to see what they have on offer.
Would I go back? Possibly to try their other dishes. The dishes we had were OK, nothing to rave but I'm willing to give it another go.
Service was friendly, they even had a chef performing making roti – he had some impressive skills!
GA's ratings: 6 / 10
More More Cha
1 Dixon St
Sydney 2000
Ph: +61 402 365 367
Glass Brasserie, Sydney
It's definitely been a while since my last visit at Glass, last time I was here was for the MiL's birthday which was a few years ago now. Not sure why I have not returned since. I was catching up with dumplinggirl, A, for lunch one day, and we were supposed to have a 'healthy' lunch due to all the Chinese New Year feasting but I couldn't get burger out of my head, so she suggested Glass.
There are two parts of Glass, Glass Brassiere and Wine Bar, owned and run by Luke Mangan which can be found on the second floor of the Hilton Hotel on George Street. The restaurant itself is quite big, the bar section not so much, and that was where A and I were going for our burger.
The lunch menu at Glass Wine and Bar, for $20 you have an option of Wagyu burger (with bacon, cheese and BBQ Sauce) and fries, or Luke Mangan Pie (a home-style chunky beef pie, mash potatoes and mushy peas), tempura fish (tempura fish, fries, tartare sauce) or minute steak and either a beer, or wine or soft drinks. No guessing what we both had!
The wagyu burger with bacon, cheese and BBQ sauce of course!
Burger at Glass is 50/50 brioche and burger bun, filled with tomatoes, house-made BBQ sauce and mayo, onions and beef pattie. The beef pattie was juicy and tender. I would have preferred the pickle in the burger rather than on the side. The overall burger wasn't as juicy or as messy at that of Lotus's. I do prefer tomato sauce with my burger instead of BBQ, however, it was still a pretty good burger.
However, compared to my favourite Lotus burger? Lotus burger still wins and undoubtedly still my favourite burger in Sydney. It was just juicier, messier, pickle and onion relish in it, overall just better. Slightly more expensive than Glass but oh man, definitely worth it!
The fries I love, crispy and thin.
For $20 it is good value, and definitely not bad. I noticed others having the tempura fish and the minute steak and that looked good too! Definitely worth coming back for the $20 lunch.
Unfortunately they don't take reservations for the wine and bar section, they are open at midday, so come early. Service at Glass was friendly and efficient. It was definitely lovely to catch up with you A, will do it again soon!
GA's ratings: 7 / 10
488 George Street
Sydney 2000
Ph: +61 2 9265 6068
Encasa Deli, Sydney
Encasa Deli is opened by the owners of Encasa Restaurant on Pitt Street. It can can be found on Bathurst Street, selling Spanish groceries, freshly made sandwiches to eat in or for those workers on the run.
Upon entering, you can see a cabinet displaying all sorts of deli goodness such as salami, prosciutto, wheels of cheese and large terracotta dishes full of plump olives. A list of different types of bocadillos, long portion of baguette sliced in half and filled with Spanish chorizo sausage, cold cuts, tuna or Serrano ham, is written on the blackboard which is hung on the wall.
I was catching up with M and she suggested this place. We couldn't decide what we wanted as everything sounded wonderful, however, the lady told us that the chorizo was one of their best sellers.
I took her advice and opt for the chorizo ($10.50), grilled Spanish sausage, roast capsicum, Spanish onion and aioli. Made to order on fresh bread which are all supplied by Brasserie Bread. They were crusty on the outside and deliciously soft on the inside.
The grilled Spanish sausage was excellent; the roast capsicum a wonderful complement and I loved loved the aioli!
M had the Argentino ($10), South American sausage and chimichurri. I didn't have any of this, but she did enjoy it.
I know how much 'The Mother' loves delis so told him about it and he has gone twice in a week! First time, he had the mortadella sandwich and really enjoyed it, and he had the Boquerones, white anchovies, comfit piquillo peppers, roast garlic aioli and loved it! No photos unfortunately, he just told me it was 'really good'.
There's never a shortage of food in the CBD but this is definitely a great addition! Unfortunately we didn't try and olives, but I did manage to buy salami for home which 'The Mother' loved. No doubt we will be back to try their other bocadillos, I am definitely keen to try Canario – roast pork leg, queso fresco, roast capsicum mojo and tomato.
Had a quick look at the grocery section, tins of sardines, marinated octopus are available, as well as kitchen supplies like terracotta dishes and tins of tomatoes and pickled jalapenos. Definitely worth coming back for!
GA's ratings: 7.5 / 10
Encasa Deli
135 Bathurst Street
Sydney 2000
Ph: +61 2 9283 4277
Cafe Sopra, Sydney
I was pleasantly surprised and somewhat glad when I found out that Café Sopra has opened in the city! This will be their fourth Cafe Sopra in Sydney. I have been to both Potts Point and Waterloo and really enjoyed the food.
Café Sopra recently opened on Bridge Street, opposite the ASX and underneath the Steersons steakhouse. It wasn't hard to find, the queue was already out the door when I was there at 11.55am to meet my favourite (well one and only) brother, F, for lunch.
We managed to score a table by the bar, which was uber cool but what was annoying was seeing the blackboard menu! I didn't even get a chance to take a photo of it as there were so many people. The menu heavily features pasta so if pasta is not your thing, then this is not the place for you. I left the ordering to my brother, one pasta, and one salad and maybe zucchini flowers.
We started with the zucchini flowers stuffed with cheese and topped with grated parmesan. Not the best looking zucchini flowers I have seen, but these were absolutely delicious, batter was thin and crispy, and the creamy cheese filing was absolutely delightful. F wanted another serving, unfortunately they ran out already!
F wanted a serve of garlic bread also.
F couldn't go past the fettuccini with meatballs – three generous servings of meatballs which were incredibly tender. The fettuccini was al dente with a hint of lemon, it was delicious but I think F can proudly say that there wasn't enough fettuccini!
The pickled beetroot with pancetta, gorgonzola and rosemary salad was exactly what I needed to offset the pasta. You can't tell in the photos but underneath the mountain of lettuce there are actually soft pickled beetroot, which I loved! The pancetta was crunchy and the gorgonzola really gave it a nice touch.
Unfortunately we were both SO full that we couldn't fit any dessert. The banoffee pie is my favourite but seriously could not fit anything else after all the food.
Service was friendly, food was simple but definitely tasty. The pizzas looked awesome, will definitely come back for those and to try their other pasta dishes. Come early to avoid the queues but be prepared to wait if it is busy. Great to have Café Sopra in the city, pity they don't take reservations!
GA's ratings: 7.5/ 10
Café Sopra
11 Bridge Street
Sydney 2000
Ph: +61 2 8298 2701
Encasa, Haymarket
I can't remember the last time I was here at Encasa, two or three years perhaps, but I do remember the seafood paella and really enjoyed it. As you know 'The Mother' loves tapas, it is a fun way of eating, especially if there are four or five of us.
Encasa is located on the busy street of Pitt Street, where most of the Thai restaurant can be found. The place was extremely busy for a Thursday evening, and if you didn't have a reservation expect to wait for at least an hour! Lots of different types of tapas dishes on the menu, as well as pasta, pizza and many more.
'The Mother' wanted to order one of everything on the tapas menu! Thankfully, we all said no as that is insane and we were right, of course. We struggled to finish what we ordered yet alone one of each!
Started with the sangria – love the chopped fruits, it makes it so much healthier!
We started with the Alcachofas ($8.50), artichoke hearts in olive oli, fresh herbs, lemon and chili. If you don't like artichoke then this is not the dish for you, I love the tang from the lemon which gave it a nice kick.
The Mejillones a la Marinera ($13), black mussels in fresh tomato sauce with basil and chili was a hit amongst the diners.
Champiñones al Ajillo ($8), sizzling garlic mushrooms were excellent, it was so garlicky that I smelt like garlic the next morning!
We couldn't help but get two serves of patatas Bravas ($9.50), fried potato with garlic mayonnaise, and spicy tomato salsa. Golden chunks of potatoes, crispy on the outside and generously drizzled in garlic mayonnaise and spice tomato salsa – YUM!
I've never had the Tortilla Española ($8.50), omelette with potato and onion and I have to say, they were delish! Cooked to perfection, this could be a new favourite tapas dish!
Unfortunately the Pinchos de Pollo con Mojo ($12), chicken skewers with red capsicum, olive oil, cumin and vinegar were a bit ordinary. Thought the chicken were too dry and tasteless.
The Albondigas ($12), three large tender beef meatballs in almond sauce were seriously delicious. Served in a terra cotta dish, these meatballs were HUGE! Half was more than enough for enough as I was getting quite full by this stage!
Loved the grilled asparagus with crispy jamon and melted Manchego cheese ($13).
We also ordered a plate of the cured chorizo which was served with toasted bread ($10.50).
We did order Chorizo a la sidra – Spanish sausage poached in cider but thankfully they forgot and we managed to cancel it. We were SERIOUSLY stuffed, thank goodness none of us listened to 'the Mother' and order one of everything from the menu!
Unfortunately they ran out of churros, but that was probably a blessing in disguise. I don't think I could have fit anything else – I was so full that I was ready to roll home.
Tapas is definitely a fun way of eating, you get to try a bit of everything. Service was friendly, even though they did forget one of our orders, we didn't mind. It's a shame we didn't get the paella or the pizza, they looked good!
Would definitely come back for the pizza and the paella.
GA's ratings: 7 / 10
423 Pitt Street
Sydney 2000
Ph: +61 9211 4257
Tomislav, Darlinghurst
Tomislav is a small bistro located in Darlinghurst. Could be missed if you don't know it exists. I love the balcony, where we managed to sit outside, it was perfect for a summer evening. I do like an open kitchen, where I can see the chefs in action. We had a view of the Harbour Bridge which was quite lovely too – would be perfect for NYE, and see the fireworks.
The waitress we had was absolutely lovely, she was so friendly, cheerful and helpful. She even managed to remember all our orders without taking any notes down! I would have forgotten that's for sure. Apparently the menu is relatively new. Four courses for $90 and each course gives you a choice of five dishes, from light to heavy to dessert.
Started with complementary Sourdough bread with butter. I loved how the butter had a hint of espresso, very clever, as it gave the bread a nice sweet after taste which I really enjoyed.
We couldn't resist but order a serve of the rice crackers with seal salt and vinegar ($10), thin sheets of fried rice cracker which was light and crunchy. Spray three pumps from the vinegar bottle before eating, I love the sourness, the strong vinegar smell, it was quite delicious!
The rice crackers with sour cream and chives ($11) were also a hit!
There were so many choices, I didn't know where to start. It took us a while to decide. The 1st course had a lot of raw food, which was a little bit of a dilemma for me. I wanted the poached hen's yolk, foie gras – pickled beetroots. Asked if they could cook the yolk longer, but the chef made this dish vegetarian, so instead of the hen's yolk, I got some mushrooms. It was such a pretty dish – mushrooms, crumbed foie gras, radish and pickled beetroots. It was a light and refreshing dish.
Although, the hen's yolk looked SO much better!
C1 had the cape hawke rock oysters with lemon ice and soy dressing, these babies looks fantastic!
C2 and J had the kangaroo tartare which was served with mint and hazelnut dressing and cute little toasted bread. Unfortunately I didn't get to try this, but C2 loved the flavours and really enjoyed it.
T had the scampi carpaccio with sour cream and pumpkin juice. I loved how the pumpkin juice was served in a test tube and poured when the dish on the table. The colours are just too vibrant!
Amazing that everyone had a different dish, S had poached yellow fin tuna, sour potato and lime honey. This would have definitely been my first choice… if I could eat tuna!
Second course for me would have to be roast red gate farm quail with xo sauce and ice sour cherries sorbet. This was absolutely delish. Tender, succulent quail, the xo sauce was not distinctive, but I love the sour cherry sorbet that came with it.
C1 and R had the basmati rice risotto which was served with lemon and grilled yamba prawns. C1 really enjoyed this, I do love a good risotto and this was tasty.
C2 had the grilled blackmore's tongue with toffee glaze and coconut ice cream. It sounded SO wrong but C2 thought this was excellent. Dish of the night he claims. The tongue was cut very thin, then grilled on both side before it was served on top of toffee glaze with coconut ice cream.
Last of the savoury dish, and C2 and I both couldn't go past the ranger's valley beef short rib served with shitake and grilled mango. Oh my – these were one of the nicest beef short ribs I have had. Braised for 24 hours then grilled and served with mango puree and shitake mushrooms. Fantastic dish to end on, probably the highlight of the evening for me, I really loved this dish!
Majority of the diners couldn't go past the burrawong duck breast with wasabi and poached rhubarb. The wasabi was very subtle and light, and the rhubarb really gave it that extra nice sweet flavour. The duck was cooked to perfection. T didn't enjoy the rhubarb so much, but thought the duck was nice.
S had the roast john dory fillet with warrigal greens and salt caramel. Unfortunately I didn't take a photo of this but she really enjoyed it and said she hadn't eaten anything quite like it. It was super yum!
We had a couple of sides, three servings of the triple cooked crinkle cut fries ($11) – like Heston's and they were incredible! Crunchy, light, and no one could stop eating them!
The icebergs with macadamias and cranberries ($10) was also lovely.
Final course, dessert. Unfortunately this was a little bit of a letdown for me. Opt for the vanilla cheese cake with basil ice and rhubarb sorbet. We were told it is not your typical cheese cake – not a baked cheese cake but very much moose-like. The basil ice didn't really do it for me, but I LOVED the rhubarb sorbet, sweet, and light and absolutely refreshing. The cheese cake itself was a little ordinary, I think this was one of their special desserts, but it was too mouse-like.
C2 and R had milk chocolate cream cake, hazelnuts and smoked banana ice cream. I don't think C2 and R enjoyed this, they thought it was quite ordinary, they preferred the savoury dishes.
C1 on the other hand had tarago river blue, tamarillo pie and clotted cream. This looked good, the tarago river blue was softened, the combination of it all was great. Think C1 enjoyed this dish more than I did with the cheesecake.
I really enjoyed my savoury dishes, the beef especially was fantastic! The dessert was a real letdown unfortunately. Service fantastic and efficient, although it did drag a little towards the end.
Nevertheless, it was a wonderful meal with friends, I would happily come back and eat more of their savoury stuff and perhaps try something different on their dessert menu.
GA's ratings: 7 / 10
2/13 Kirketon Road
Darlinghurst 2010
Ph: +61 2 9356 4535
Bronte Carlo Cafe, Bronte
'The Mother' and I wanted to go to Three Blue Ducks over the Christmas break, unfortunately, they were closed! Doh! I should have definitely checked the times. Thankfully we saw another cafe open, Bronte Carlo Cafe and thought we would check it out. Located on the busy street of McPherson Street,just a couple of metres down from Three Blue Ducks and Iggy's bread.
The menu vast but had a slight Lebanese twist to it. We started with a couple of drinks, 'The Mother' had the chocolate milkshake, not the best he said, and I couldn't go past some fresh Juice.
The bruschetta ($12.00), oven roasted tomatoes with avocado, homemade pine-nut pesto, mixed lettuce, balsamic vinegar on toasted Vienna bread had my name on it. I wanted something 'relativel'y healthy after gorging in delicious food over Christmas.
All the ingredients were fresh and refreshing, I loved the homemade pine-nut pesto sauce and the balsamic vinegar gave it a nice touch.
'The Mother' wanted bacon and eggs, opt for BET ($12) – toasted turkish bread with bacon, roasted tomato and eggs of your choice – sunny side up in this case.
Perfectly fried egg which oozed with yolk, the bacon crispy, and tasty – hmhmhm bacon! I love bacon!
They had some interesting dishes on the menu, BLATA which seemed to be the popular one, and the falafel sandwich. Cute little cafe, service was relative friendly, and the owners I thought was quite lovely. Didn't get to talk to them much but they seemed to know all the customers and orders.
Overall, it wasn't a bad find, I was disappointed that Three Blue Ducks was closed, but we came back a week later and thankfully they were open! yay
GA's ratings: 6 / 10
Bronte Carlo Cafe
145e McPherson Street
Bronte 2024, NSW
Ph: +61 2 9389 0335

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- Gradually increase the calorie content of the diet (by about 15-25%).
- Constantly stimulate the appetite. It is also useful to have a snack before meals.
- After each meal, you need to relax. Weight grows well if stressful situations are absent.
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Rules of Nutrition for Those Who Want to Increase Weight
We all know that in the world obsessed with a variety of diets for weight loss, there are almost no voices of those who want to gain a few pounds. Sometimes it is just indeed necessary for health, for example, when girls with low weight have problems with their reproductive function. However, more often, people try to gain weight for the sake of a beautiful relief. In both cases, it is not about gaining weightby fat, but increasing muscles.
Follow this simple expert guidance from those who have already been where you want to go. You will seamlessly get the tips on how not to be skinny, but at the same time eat several healthy, but completely dense foods. Hope that all these recommendations will help you make these changes less stressful and even more stylish. Are you guys ready to take a wise and intelligent approach to weight gain? Do not break the rules if you want to see a result! Don't cheact yourself.
Whereas you are trying to find a weight gainer protein supplement, you will need to make sure that you select the right thing.
As a rule of thumb, the beginning of any system of nutritionis the determination of the required number of calories. The norm is calculated based on body weight. Having determined how many calories are required, it remains to calculate where to get them. 30-35% - should be supplied with protein. 50-60% - carbohydrates, and 10-15% - fats. It is worth including some products that will help to move faster to the intended result in your diet.
Just keep in mind what can be the cause of weight gain for many people who eat large portions of unhealthy food at night. As a rule, weight gain occurs when energy intake is much more than the energy burned off. You eat more junk food, but move less. This cannot be called as a realistic and sustainable approach to gain your weight in a proper way. Nutrition experts agree that controlling a healthy weight is one of the best things we can actually do for your health and to lower your cancer risk.
Eggs - 85% of white consists of water, the rest are proteins. Needless to say, egg is the best source of amino acids, exogenous fatty acids, vitamins, mineral compounds. The proportions between the individual chemical components of the contents of the egg are ideal. The product is characterized by high nutritional and biological values.
It goes without saying, that milk contains easily doubling proteins and fats, vitamins of groups Band D. It also contains more than 200 components. Especially there are a lot of calcium and phosphorus salts in milk, which are in easily digestible form and well balanced ratios. In some cases, there is a poor tolerance of milk, which is manifested by bloating.
Fish.Its proteins contain all the necessary amino acids. In freshwater species, there are 8-12% of proteins, while in marine species there are 17% - 18%, sometimes up to 25%. The marine fish contains more minerals and trace elements - phosphorus, iodine, calcium, iron, magnesia, bromine, fluorine. They are necessary for the activity of the circulatory system, the heart and muscles, the nervous system, the glands of internal secretion.
Chicken meat contains a large amount of protein, vitamins, minerals - including phosphorus, potassium, iron. All of them must be present in the daily diet. A small amount of fat and, accordingly, cholesterol.Chicken breast contains a half of the recommended daily intake of selenium. There is a lot of vitamin B6, which reduces the risk of cardiovascular failure.
Cabbage contains many vitally important vitamins and minerals. Of particular value is both a source of vitamin C and an essential source of protein and sugars. Most of the nitrogenous protein substances are easily digested. Nonpoisonous nitrogenous substances are mainly represented by amino acids essential for nutrition.
However, even including these products in the diet, efforts to gain weight can be reduced to "0", if you neglect simple rules of nutrition. These are general rules, but in order to gain weight,it is better to consult a nutritionist, because there are also individual features of accelerated metabolism. It is better to adjust the diet under the guidance of a specialist.
Weight gaining rules
Do not try to gain weight quickly; a safe increase in muscle mass is to 1 kg per week, depending on the initial weight and age.
Eating proteins is the basis for the growth of muscle mass.
Go in for sports, alternating aerobic and power loads. However, the training system should be different from the exercises of those who want to lose weight. The system of training of bodybuilders will suit both women and men.
Is gym actually going to help you in gaining weight? Imagine the situation. You've been working out hard for weeks or even months, but something goes wrong and the scale unfortunately goes in the wrong direction.
If despite all efforts, muscle mass does not grow, you should consult a doctor; this state of affairs can be a syndrome of a serious ailment.
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Baby Lulu - Cooking With Mom
Baby Lulu is feeling very happy today because you have been asked to help her and her mummy in making the day. This is something that every young girl likes, and they will cook for their dolls, using imaginary ingredients. Today, however, Lulu and mummy are going to cook a real meal together and you are supposed to help her do this. Start off by getting all the ingredients together from the store. Lulu and her mother are at the grocery and they are buying supplies for the evening meal. All the required items can be seen in the inventory box at the bottom of the game, so you have to look for them, and click on them in order to add them to the shopping cart. Once you have all the items, you will move to another level, where you will be in the kitchen with Lulu and her mother. You are supposed to follow the prompts in order to give items to Lulu; she may add some of them directly to the meal, or she may give them to the mother who will help her prepare them. You have to be very quick when you are dealing with the two, since they expect you to be quick about what you are doing. If you take too long, Lulu's mother will get very cross, and Lulu might also end up crying. You have to keep a sharp lookout for the prompt so you get to give what they need in good time. Once you have helped them with the cooking, the game will come to an end and both Lulu and her mother will be very happy with you. Maybe you can also ask your mum if you can help her with her cooking one of these fine days.


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.. but there will be more soon ! The Games evening was very quickly booked up , with regulars and newcomers to the cellar ..
So for those who are coming : revise you numbers 1 - 100 for Bingo , check your alphabet , revise you English culture and prepare your smile and best accent ..
There have been an incredible amount of " Coincidences" with people meeting people they have already met .. so who knows you may meet up with an old friend or find a new partner !!
Life is full of surprises so Forget your French , " Be prepared " for Fun and Games and a glass of Wine and this year's First Games night . Thursday 10th Oct from 8pm Sharp to 10 pm .. ish ;)
If you couldn't get a place but need to hear more English and laughter , you can do so at the MDU
( Maison de l'université at Mt st Aignan )on Friday 11th. you can join me to watch the best of Silly Sketches by " STILL KIDDING" !
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Great writing, including one of those magnificently lucky moments at the end in which the author happens to catch the perfectly telling moment.
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Headshots of Lefteris
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Despo, Theodore, and Perseus
We've been seeing a lot of this sofa lately. Well, here's one more session, but this time I did something different with it – added a backdrop, and lit it with an umbrella instead of window light. These are Lefteris's parents, Perry's grandparents, and two people for whom I am extremely grateful – for raising an amazing son (two amazing sons actually, but I'm only married to one!) and for welcoming me into their family with such acceptance and generosity. When Despo asked me to take photos of them with Perseus I immediately thought of this setup – and I[…]Read more
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…from Perry and his cousin Logan! "…and there were THIIIIIIIS many presents!!" "…it was exhausting…I'm not even sure what happened after I fell asleep." (This is what being a parent is about…right? Putting a fake moustache on your kid and documenting it for posterity? Sounds right to me…) Share this…TwitterLinkedinPinterestemailGoogle+Read more
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Following on the success of the first round of fashion-y photos of my ZAAZ London colleagues, we went for round 2 with the new folks. This time I shot seven people instead of the original 18, which really gave me some time to get it RIGHT. I feel like I learned a lot the first time around, and actually I wrote some posts about how I shot some of those portraits, too. There will be more of those posts to come! You can enjoy the full portfolio here – it's worth it! Here are some selects to tempt you… Share[…]Read more
Gabe ought to be in pictures
Gabe is pretty much a member of my family at this point. He's spent numerous holidays with us and even did a reading at Aaron and Ashley's wedding. He's also on my mom's weekly update email…and you know that's serious. So one of my SF adventures was, of course, a ridiculous photo outing with Gabe. We were hoping for lots of fog in the forest but we wound up at the beach in the end. And I instructed him to bring some ridiculous wardrobe choices. Which he did. There are more of these in the Gabe is an underwear model[…]Read more
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Nidhi is my very very VERY good friend and is one of my very favorite people. She's also a rising star of an illustrator – incredibly talented, friendly, smart, funny, and driven. Did I mention talented? Take a look at her website to see what I'm talking about. While I was in SF for a couple of weeks, we spent an afternoon at the park and I took some portraits of her. It was late in the afternoon – post-burrito-time – so the sun was nice and low, making this lovely warm light… We walked off into the bushes to[…]Read more
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Grumpy Simon (5 of 5)
Grumpy Simon is my favorite! This was all his idea, but the artwork is mine. 🙂 We spent some time sketching it out on paper, and then I just started drawing on his face. BAM. Grumpy Simon. This makes me want to do a whole series of these! Turns out I kind of like painting people. Simon, thanks for everything – you were such a pleasure to shoot! Share this…TwitterLinkedinPinterestemailGoogle+Read more


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Tue. 12/18/07 7:52pm
Tom Gervat:
Many thanks for a wonderful Christmas program with lots of really good songs sung by some of our favorite treasured songsters of yesteryears. A Memorable Program in the true spirit of Christmas.
Tom Gervat
Tue. 12/18/07 8:18pm
Dear Tom,
Thanks very much for the compliment. I enjoy the shows you do on Mac`s program too, you always present a very enjoyable group of 78`s from my favorite era of recorded history. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Sincerely, Ed Ferraro
Tue. 12/18/07 9:37pm
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Where is the audio link. Where is the pop up player and the real audio stream
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Soryy about that I jumped the gun. Merry Christmas and New year
Thu. 12/20/07 11:47am
A most enjoyable program! ...and played on vintage talking machines!
Thanks for sharing your collection this holiday season.
Mon. 12/24/07 11:01am
Lisa in Toronto:
Very nicely put-together program - really fun to listen to!
Sun. 12/30/07 4:46pm
Brian C. Di Carlo:
I enjoy your show very much, In fact I learned a lot about what I would Like to collect(or really try to get) from what is played on the show, however; Could you please tell me how to date Victor and Columbia, ect. records is there a book?
Keep up the good work, enjoyed listening to your version of "Minatonka", I have this song on Victor redseal -- sung by Francis Alda ---- Have a Happy New Year
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Miss Mary:
Thank you Mac, This was a wonderful show...in the true spirit of Christmas..I found it to be very enjoyable...Merry Christmas...Mary.
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a truly special show, like no modern Christmas show. imagine, one of The Happiness Boys being Santa for a night. delightful. and, Oh Holy Night, aka Song of Christmas, is one of my favorite Christmas songs. i only wish i had the kind of voice you need, in order to sing it properly. please keep the good old songs coming.
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This was a truly great special .I must say one of the very best I have ever heard via the older Christmas songs. Thank you for a show that was well produced.
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I've just found this now in July and it's just as great. Fantastic presentation!
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TRENTON — Most of the attacks happened inside the supply closet. Away from workers or security cameras. A dark space that Vanessa Falcone tried desperately to avoid.
Ms. Falcone was an inmate at the Albert M. "Bo" Robinson Assessment and Treatment Center, a 900-bed halfway house here that is at the vanguard of a national movement to privatize correctional facilities.
She was assigned to the cleaning crew, under the supervision of a janitor. One night in 2009, he ordered her into the closet.
"He took his pants off and grabbed my hair and pushed me down," Ms. Falcone, now 32, said in an interview. "That started a few weeks of basically hell."
Finally, she told a senior guard that she was being sexually assaulted, according to internal reports written by the guard.
She was immediately transferred to another halfway house. The janitor was dismissed. And that is where it ended.
State officials and prosecutors did not conduct an inquiry into the allegations or the halfway house, which is run by Community Education Centers, a company with close ties to New Jersey politicians, including Chris Christie, who became governor in 2010.
"They shipped me off to another place like it never happened," said Ms. Falcone, who had gone to prison for forging prescriptions.
Located next to a highway in an industrial stretch of Trenton, the Bo Robinson center is supposed to represent the new thinking in corrections. To save money, the state releases inmates early from prisons and turns them over to privately operated halfway houses.
These facilities are not the street-corner halfway houses of the past. They have hundreds of beds and are promoted as therapeutic communities with a focus on preparing inmates for society.
Yet Bo Robinson, behind its walls, often seems to embody the worst in the prisons it was intended to supplant. Imagine a sizable penitentiary, filled with inmates, some with violent records, but lacking the supervision that prevents such places from falling into bedlam.
The New York Times, during a 10-month investigation of New Jersey's system of state-regulated halfway houses, put together a portrait of life in Bo Robinson from dozens of interviews with inmates and workers and a review of hundreds of pages of internal reports, court filings and state records.
Inmates are housed in barracks-style rooms, not cells. At night, one or two low-wage workers typically oversee each unit of 170 inmates. Outnumbered and fearful, these workers sometimes refuse to patrol the corridors.
Robbery, sexual assault, menacing of the weak — in the darkness, the inmates' rooms turn into a free-for-all.
Inmates regularly ask to be returned to prison, where they feel safer, workers said.
Government agencies pay millions of dollars annually to Bo Robinson for drug counseling, yet drugs have been so rampant inside that when one group of inmates was tested, 73 percent came up positive, Mercer County records show.
The government requires that Bo Robinson provide therapy, job training and other services, but current and former workers said they had neither the skills nor the time to do so.
They said that as a result, they falsified inmate records. The workers said that when they did deliver these services, they had to do so haphazardly, knowing they were accomplishing little, if anything.
Inmates, who wear street clothes rather than prison uniforms, are herded by the dozens into large rooms. Workers read monotonously from self-help literature.
A churning of staff members deepens the problems. Managers and low-level employees regularly quit or are dismissed, according to interviews with more than 15 current and former employees.
The impact of the disorder is far-reaching. Each year, thousands of inmates from state prisons, and several hundred from county jails, pass through Bo Robinson.
Community Education charges government agencies roughly $70 a day per inmate, about half the cost of a spot in state prison. Over all, New Jersey has made Community Education an integral partner in the corrections system. Roughly 5,200 inmates and 2,500 parolees went through its halfway houses last year, the company said. The state's prisons now hold 24,000 people.
State officials said halfway houses like Bo Robinson were susceptible to drug use and other misconduct because they had fewer restrictions than prisons and no correction officers. But the officials said the state regulated the facilities effectively.
Community Education said it would not comment on the assertions of former Bo Robinson workers quoted in this article. The company said several of the workers had been "discharged with cause," though it would not say which ones.
In an interview last week, Robert Mackey, a senior vice president at the company, acknowledged that there had been problems at Bo Robinson. But he said the company had addressed them with new training for workers and enhanced security measures.
"There are things that have gone wrong here; there are events that have occurred," Dr. Mackey said. "But to focus on a number of events or the report of some employees that are in my opinion not representative of the hundreds of people that are working in this state, I think, is a miscue."
Asked about staffing at night, he said, "It has not been problematic for us."
"I'm getting people wanting to come to work and feeling safe in the environment," he said.
Still, several former correction officers said they were startled by conditions at Bo Robinson, where they took senior jobs. They had retired from the New Jersey prisons and said they were accustomed to orderly correctional facilities. They said they could not understand why the state tolerated Community Education's management of Bo Robinson.
"It's not a safe environment — not safe for inmates or for staff," said Robert Brumbaugh, the former deputy security director at Bo Robinson, who went there after working 25 years for the Corrections Department. "It was horrendous." Mr. Brumbaugh said he had informed Community Education's executives about problems at Bo Robinson many times and had also told state regulators.
Such troubles are not limited to Bo Robinson, and have plagued the halfway house system for years, the Times investigation found.
Bronislaw Szulc, a former senior state official in charge of investigating conditions at halfway houses, said he had filed reams of reports to the Corrections Department documenting drug use, violence, lax security and escapes at Bo Robinson and other facilities.
Mr. Szulc, who retired from the department in 2010, said top officials in Trenton had often ignored his reports, rarely held the halfway houses' operators responsible and demanded that he soften his critical findings. "I was told to stand down and ease up — not to go after things so hard," he said.
When the State Commission of Investigation examined gangs in New Jersey's correction system in 2009, it discovered that the facilities most plagued by gang activity were halfway houses, not prisons.
"Beyond outright threats and shakedowns, even time on a facility's pay phones was found to be controlled and sold by gang members," Lee C. Seglem, assistant director of the state commission, said in an interview.
Senior officials seem to have done little to address the problems, even when they have reached the upper echelons of state government.
For years, one of Community Education's supporters in the Corrections Department was the deputy commissioner, Lydell B. Sherrer, who supervised the halfway-house division.
In January, Mr. Sherrer pleaded guilty to federal extortion charges. In exchange for bribes, he had been promising to arrange jobs at Bo Robinson and other halfway houses.
The company said it had never hired anyone he had recommended.
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In August 2009, officials in Mercer County, which includes Trenton, became concerned about drug use at the Bo Robinson center and decided to conduct a surprise drug test of the inmates that the county had sent it.
Of 75 inmates, 55 tested positive for drugs, or 73 percent, according to county records.
Community Education promotes Bo Robinson as a drug-free institution, saying it seizes contraband and teaches inmates to reject drugs. But heroin, cocaine, marijuana and other drugs often seem to be available more and used more in Bo Robinson than in prisons or jails, according to workers, inmates and state records.
"Bo is like the projects," said Matthew Leibe, who was an inmate there last year. "I'm walking down the hallway from mess and I'm getting approached by everybody selling everything. 'I've got batteries, T-shirts, weed, heroin, coke.' "
Bo Robinson, which was opened in 1997 and was named after a former Trenton city councilman, resembles a conference center more than a jail. Inspirational posters line the corridors. It has a lecture hall, a gymnasium and a recreation area.
Some halfway houses in New Jersey allow inmates to leave on work release, but Bo Robinson is locked down. Escapes do occur, though not as frequently as at halfway houses with fewer restrictions. (There have been at least eight escapes at Bo Robinson since 2009, according to state statistics.)
Drugs slip in, however, through the usual channels — stuffed inside cigarette packs or buried in visitors' clothing. Inmates have even developed a system that delivers drugs by air.
Bo Robinson abuts U.S. 1, and from a patch of highway shoulder, people throw balls over the fence that have been partly sliced open. Drugs are inside.
Low-level workers, who are known as counselors, are supposed to inspect the yard, and sometimes they find the balls. A senior staff member recalled workers' seizing one filled with 15 bags of heroin. Often, though, the drugs seem to enter undetected.
So at night, the smell of marijuana smoke drifts down hallways known as Patience Lane and Hope Lane.
The state corrections commissioner, Gary M. Lanigan, who was appointed by Governor Christie, said in an interview that the state and the operators of halfway houses were vigilant about drugs.
"A halfway house, we talked about, is a less secure facility, more access to the general public — more ability to move contraband back and forth," Mr. Lanigan said. "You're still an inmate, it's still treated as contraband, and if you're caught with any type of contraband, you will be charged."
After The Times began its investigation of New Jersey's halfway houses last year, the Christie administration said it would improve monitoring of the system. The Corrections Department said this month that since last July, inspectors had conducted 496 "announced and unannounced site visits" at halfway houses.
Bo Robinson and other Community Education halfway houses hire former convicts as low-level staff members. Some perform admirably, drawing upon their own experiences turning their lives around to inspire inmates.
But Charles Muller, a former chief of the special investigations division of the Corrections Department, said he and his team believed that some workers in halfway houses were dealing drugs and other contraband.
"It's totally counter to helping these inmates," Mr. Muller said. "You're preying on them now, and you're contributing to the fact that they may be using drugs."
Asked why the state had not cracked down on drugs at Bo Robinson, Mr. Muller said senior officials had never wanted to devote the resources to do so.
Dana Vetrano, a former counselor at Bo Robinson, said the staff had many former prison inmates. She herself was one, having served time for robbery.
"They were from the streets," Ms. Vetrano said. "They needed a job, they came in from the street, they were hired — that was it. They had no qualifications. Nothing.
"I used to dread going into that place, and it was because of the staff."
After the drug tests that Mercer County conducted in August 2009, the state took no action against Bo Robinson. But county officials removed the 55 men who had tested positive from the center and returned them to the county jail.
"We think there were staff that were making drugs available to the population," said Brian M. Hughes, the county executive. "Until that was resolved, it really was not possible for us to keep them there."
Community Education soon fired several senior staff members at Bo Robinson, including Mr. Brumbaugh, the deputy security director and former correction officer, who had earned a reputation as a whistle-blower because he had highlighted problems there.
Mercer County later returned dozens of the inmates to Bo Robinson.
In May 2011, Mr. Hughes was invited to the White House for a panel discussion, led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., on ways to prevent inmates from returning to crime after they are discharged. Mr. Hughes said his county was "on the cutting edge of this issue" and praised Bo Robinson, according to a news release from his office.
A month after the White House visit, Mercer County conducted another drug test at Bo Robinson.
Of 73 inmates, 27 tested positive, or 37 percent, according to county records.
Once again, the state did not penalize Bo Robinson. The county withdrew its inmates, then returned them after new assurances from Community Education.
Mr. Hughes, a Democrat, said the county lacked alternatives because Community Education, with its political connections, had cornered the market.
Mr. Christie, a Republican, has long supported the company. His close friend and political adviser William J. Palatucci is the company's senior vice president. Community Education also has ties to well-known Democrats.
"I understand that; I'm a big boy," Mr. Hughes said of the political connections. "I wish that there was a lot of competition to a program like Bo's, but quite frankly, there isn't."
Community Education said the county's drug tests were being misinterpreted. The company said a vast majority of the inmates who had tested positive had used drugs outside Bo Robinson before being admitted. The tests merely detected lingering amounts, the company said.
"Drug use is not known to be an issue at Bo Robinson or any C.E.C. community facility," the company said in a statement.
Yet throughout this time, state and local officials ignored a glaring discrepancy.
Community Education says it has a rigorous drug-testing program at Bo Robinson. Even as Mercer County's tests were pointing to widespread drug use, Community Education's tests were showing the opposite.
Earlier in 2011, for example, the company reported stellar results to officials: Of 114 county inmates tested at Bo Robinson, the company reported, only one came up positive.
'A Numbers Game'
Soon after Denette Pasqualini, 40, went to work as a counselor at Bo Robinson in June 2011, she realized that her years as a security supervisor at a Six Flags amusement park had not prepared her for the night shift at a Community Education halfway house.
Her supervisors regularly got drunk on whiskey concealed in soda bottles, she recalled in an interview. Several counselors were having sexual relations with inmates.
Ms. Pasqualini, who said she was paid $10.50 an hour, was the only worker on a unit of more than 100 women when one inmate stabbed another with a pen. When Ms. Pasqualini tried to intervene, other inmates held her back, she said.
"I'm like, 'How could this be?' " she said. "If the Department of Corrections ever came in here and saw this unit, they would close this unit down."
She offered an explanation for the disparity between Community Education's drug tests and the county's: Fraud was pervasive at Bo Robinson.
Ms. Pasqualini said counselors regularly warned inmates of impending drug tests or allowed them to take urine cups into bathrooms without supervision. Most frequently, she said, counselors simply doctored documents to say that inmates had passed drug tests when they had never taken them.
"The staff is from the Trenton area and know the inmates from the streets," she said. "They say: 'I'm not going to give her a drug test. I know her. I'll let it go.' "
Ms. Pasqualini resigned after five months because the job was too dangerous.
In interviews, four other former workers at Bo Robinson corroborated her assertions about fraud in its operations.
The workers said Bo Robinson often did not have enough staff. But Community Education required paperwork to prove to state and county officials that Bo Robinson was rehabilitating inmates with drug treatment, therapy and other services.
So the workers cheated, and no one at the company's management objected when case file after case file had identical entries, the former employees said.
"When we had to give a report for the group session," Cynthia Taylor, a former counselor, said, "we would look at what was said for the last group and cut and paste."
Ms. Taylor, 55, previously worked in marketing and had no experience in drug treatment or child development when she was hired to deliver five lectures a week on drug and alcohol abuse and parenting.
Ms. Taylor said she was dismissed in May 2009. She said she was told she had violated rules by sharing a sandwich with an inmate, but she said she believed that she had been punished for complaining about working conditions.
"We all understood that it was a numbers game," she said. "Community Education made money not on how many people they rehabilitated. 'How many bodies can we get in here and keep here for a certain amount of time?' — that's what they were interested in."
Asked about the allegations by former workers, the company said: "C.E.C. is unaware of any instance in which any Bo Robinson employee has ever complained to senior management that they were overworked, poorly trained or had forged treatment records."
The deficiencies in drug enforcement and counseling were especially damaging because Bo Robinson serves as an entryway to New Jersey's system of halfway houses.
When inmates leave state prison, many of them first spend about two months receiving counseling and being evaluated at Bo Robinson or at a Community Education halfway house in Kearny. Then, based in large part upon inmates' case files prepared by Community Education, state officials determine whether to place them in a long-term halfway house, and in which one.
But the case files were filled with dubious information about inmates' time at Bo Robinson, workers said.
Derrick Watkins, a former deputy director of treatment, said he had needed to reprimand workers for falsifying inmates' records. Mr. Watkins said he had once found the same counseling report copied 30 times, with identical entries but a different inmate's name written on each page.
Another time, a counselor copied a colleague's progress reports and submitted them as his own. "When I called him in and asked him, he confessed," Mr. Watkins said. "He may have done that to hundreds of people who came through."
Mr. Watkins said he was dismissed in 2009, along with much of the senior staff, after Mercer County found that 73 percent of its inmates had tested positive for drugs. He said that of his staff of roughly 15 counselors, perhaps 3 had received training in drug and alcohol treatment.
"If you don't have the skills to talk about drug treatment, you're just, for lack of a better word, baby-sitting," he said.
Using counselors with no more than high school diplomas, as Community Education did, "is not clinically sound," Mr. Watkins said.
He said Narcotics Anonymous sessions and other counseling sessions sometimes included over 100 inmates and often turned raucous, with inmates shouting, arguing and throwing things, or else sleeping.
At one point, Mr. Watkins said, he discovered that many of the younger inmates who usually scorned these meetings were eagerly attending. When he learned what was happening, he said, he was stunned.
"An older resident comes in my office; he wants to see me," Mr. Watkins recalled. "He sits down and he says, 'Mr. Watkins, I've got to tell you something, but it's got to stay between me and you.' No problem. He said, 'The Bloods are running the N.A. meetings.' I said, 'Excuse me?' "
"Instead of drug and alcohol talk, they were talking gang stuff."
'A Sexual Predator'
When Vanessa Falcone was growing up in a quiet New Jersey suburb, her world revolved around art classes and violin lessons — Dvorak was her favorite. Her father was a civil engineer. Her future seemed limitless.
But by her 20s, she was a single mother with a young son, working at a Starbucks and feeling overwhelmed. She began abusing pills that she had been prescribed for migraines, and later moved on to heroin. She was arrested on charges of forging prescriptions, and she went to prison.
Eventually, she ended up at the Bo Robinson center.
Assigned to the maintenance crew, she was supervised by a janitor who was notorious for bringing in cigarettes and other contraband for female inmates in exchange for sex, according to inmates, workers and the institution's records.
The janitor began cornering her in the supply closet and violently forcing her to perform oral sex, she said.
"Once in that closet," she said, "he would totally have control over me."
Ms. Falcone said she agreed to be quoted by name because she was angry about conditions in Bo Robinson.
Finally, a security supervisor named Brenda Brown noticed that something was wrong and confronted Ms. Falcone, who told her that she had been assaulted by "a sexual predator," Ms. Brown wrote in a report.
"He was blocking my exit and holding on to my hair," Ms. Falcone recounted in a handwritten statement included in the report. "This incident scared me and makes me feel very traumatized and uncomfortable here."
Within hours, Ms. Falcone was transferred out of Bo Robinson.
Mr. Brumbaugh, the halfway house's deputy security director at the time, said he had viewed security video that showed Ms. Falcone leaving the closet moments after one of the attacks. She was pale and shaken, he said. He was certain she was telling the truth. "She just looked shocked, like something happened," he said.
At her new halfway house, a police detective interviewed Ms. Falcone once about the attack but did not follow up.
The Mercer County prosecutor's office had no record of her or the janitor, who did not respond to several phone messages left by The Times.
Ms. Falcone was released from the correctional system in 2009 and has not been arrested since. She now works as a florist.
Even when prosecutors have brought charges against a worker at Bo Robinson, corrections officials have not scrutinized its management.
Last year, an inmate escaped from Bo Robinson, and when he was captured he told the police that he had fled because a male counselor there had repeatedly raped him.
The counselor, Joseph A. Chase, was later arrested and charged with sexual assault. Prosecutors said the police also discovered drugs in Mr. Chase's car. The case is pending.
Asked about the two cases, Dr. Mackey, the Community Education executive, said: "They obviously occurred. We responded to them."
He added, "You are going to find these to be completely uncharacteristic."
But violence among inmates is also common at Bo Robinson, according to interviews and the halfway house's records.
Especially at night.
Supervisors regularly reported finding signs of overnight attacks. One memorandum to security guards, referring to a large hole in a wall, said, "It is obvious a body slamming into the wall was the cause."
Internal reports describe the mayhem in one room in the women's unit, No. 332, in 2009.
A gang of women was terrorizing other inmates. One gang member was brandishing "a padlock secured in a sock," a counselor reported.
"Every night I live in fear," an inmate said in a handwritten complaint.
The other inmates in the room were also frightened. Another inmate wrote, "I have been threatened and sexually assaulted." A third: "These daily occurrences make my life at Bo Robinson unsafe."
A senior counselor wrote in a report that a fourth inmate was crying "uncontrollably" because she had been sexually abused by a female inmate known as Gangster.
"I'm afraid to say anything," the inmate was quoted as saying, "because Gangster is not going to leave me alone."
Eventually, four women identified as ringleaders were removed from Bo Robinson and returned to prison, but no criminal inquiry was opened, according to prosecutors.
Supervision was so poor that inmates often made a plea to workers.
"They definitely told me, 'I want to go back to prison,' " said Assenka Oksiloff, 50, who worked for most of last year as a G.E.D. teacher at Bo Robinson. "They would tell me that all the time."
Several former counselors at Bo Robinson said violence was difficult to contain, given staffing levels and a lack of training.
Shannon Donalson, who previously worked as an office temp, said she was hired as a counselor in the women's section but was frequently asked to work in the men's.
"I didn't do it because I didn't feel safe," she said. "Why would I want to go and be expected to handle 300 men by myself at night? You want me to go in a corner with all these men where you might not be able to see me? No, that's crazy."
Futile Appeals for Change
Robert Brumbaugh thought he had found a way to convince executives of Community Education Centers that the staffing at Bo Robinson was inadequate. He escorted them through the institution, showing the many areas without workers.
They nodded in agreement, he recalled, but nothing was done.
"They don't want to spend money," he said.
Community Education has repeatedly said it handles inmates far more ably than state prisons do, at roughly half the cost to the government. Former correction officers like Mr. Brumbaugh can offer their own comparisons.
At 6 feet 1 inch and 235 pounds, Mr. Brumbaugh is an imposing figure. After three years as a Navy aircraft electrician, he joined the New Jersey Corrections Department in 1982, inspired in part by an uncle who was a police officer.
Mr. Brumbaugh retired as a corrections chief in 2007, then became deputy security director at Bo Robinson. He spent two years there and now provides security for a precious-metals refinery in Pennsylvania.
During his first week at Bo Robinson, he was patrolling the yard with one or two other workers and more than 400 inmates — a ratio far higher than what a prison would allow.
"It was a rude awakening," Mr. Brumbaugh said. "How can you see if they're moving contraband or recovering contraband tossed over the fence?"
As Bo Robinson expanded, to 900 beds in 2008 from an original 320 beds in 1997, it was accepting more inmates with histories of violence, Mr. Brumbaugh said.
"The standards got very loose," he said. "Are there inmates who shouldn't be there? Absolutely."
Mr. Brumbaugh said he regularly received calls at home late at night about disturbances, something that rarely happened in the prison system.
He said counselors at Bo Robinson were given about eight days of training, with little time dedicated to security. New Jersey correction officers receive about 15 weeks of training. Of the counselors, he said, "at least half of them were scared to death."
He so distrusted his own staff, Mr. Brumbaugh said, that he relied upon inmates to inform on workers who were dealing drugs or engaging in other misconduct.
Executives of Community Education knew about many of these problems, he said, but when they gave tours of Bo Robinson to officials or potential investors, everything was staged.
Hallways were scrubbed and painted. Visitors were kept far from the men's units, the rowdiest areas.
"You couldn't possibly get a good picture of what's going on unless you went in there on a normal day," Mr. Brumbaugh said.
One of his top aides was Ms. Brown, a retired corrections captain.
Ms. Brown has a military bearing after a career spent in uniform. She keeps her hair short and her Nissan as clean as it was when she drove it off the lot. In an interview, she said she took the job as a security supervisor at Bo Robinson because she believed that inmates deserved the second chance Community Education promised.
When counselors first told her that they were afraid to walk Bo Robinson's hallways at night, she scoffed. But she said that she, too, soon felt that fear.
"Once you got caught, there was really nowhere to go," she said. "There was no real security."
Ms. Brown said she had to accept that she could do little to prevent inmates from selling drugs, skipping treatment lectures and having sex in the showers. (Whether the sexual activity was consensual or not, she said, she rarely knew.)
One weekend night in November 2009, Ms. Brown recalled, she was again scrambling to do the work of three people when she received a report that a visitor had smuggled in a roll of $20 bills in her shoe.
While investigating, Ms. Brown said, she heard that several inmates were injecting heroin in the bathroom.
She found one of them.
"I could tell that he was so high that I went to the nurse's door and I started banging," she said. "He needed medical attention."
She could not bear it any longer.
"It felt out of control," she said. "I didn't want someone dying on my watch."
She resigned and never went back.


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the fine art of dialysis took another turn today…. came in with a bruise on the under side of my left forearm, my fistula arm. The nurse decided to use one needle for the areterial and one chest line, stuck ma and got virtually no flow at all. She suspected a clot and after setting up both chest lines to get my run started, she removed the needle and had difficulty in pushing the small amount of blood out of the needle line. That was good evidence of a clot and after a bit of exertion on the plunger she cleared the needle line and we saw the clot. Talking it over and with me doing a little thinking back, i probably strained the left arm a few days ago when I finally got around to carrying my summer car tires on rims to the boathouse to store until Spring. I had tried to use my right arm but switched briefly to the left arm. The other theory is that people with fistulas get clots when they sleep on their fistula arm. So more knowledge, more restrictions and forward we go. If the situation had been one with me with no chest lines, they will be coming out sometime in the next few months, then once the clot was removed, a second attempt to insert the needle and get a good flow would have been done.
Month: December 2009
a new wrinkle, fistula style
yesterday found my forearm a little swollen upstream from needle hole number two and so since I still have my chest lines in my chest, my nurse decided to use the hole number one for arterial flow and the venus flow from my chest line, kind of a hemodialysis half and half. in a short time we will hit the magic number of 15 needles of fistula use and then switch to a larger needle, according to one humorist-nurse, the ones that are an inch wide, ha ha ha.
moi at Willow Creek
thanks to Len M. for the photo, it cost him real money, a film shot, thanks again.
Grace visits the dialysis clinic
Took Grace over for a visit to the dialysis clinic on a day where I am not there for a run to visit the nurses. We got her weighed on the scale, 53 lbs. She is six months old now. She met two of the patients in their dialysis chairs as well and behaved pretty well for a puppy. This was her third visit. I especially wanted to get her over today since the nurse who turned me onto the breeders back in the summer is leaving dialysis work and going into diabetes education. Her last day on dialysic clinic work is mid January. Without her calling the breeders and asking about puppies, I suspect my procrastination might have kicked in full time and no Grace would be in our lives these days.
There is a circle
In which I dance
And my shadow watches
Some days the circle is loose
And the dance broad and silly
The music for a happy clown
Some days the circle is tight
The music shrill
My steps over broken glass
My knees stiff and old
My shadow hugs me closer
Than a shrunken suit of lies
And the circle spins out
And the circle turns in
And I dance and dance and dance
Louise and Grace
Originally uploaded by canuckshutterer "Bill" (W.J. Gibson)
of the five formerly feral fab felines, Louise is the one who is friendly with Grace, the wonder pup. In this technically poor shot, there is evidence of the easy going nature that exists between these two. I just with the other cats would come to be this relaxed with Grace. A logn way to go with a couple of them.
Had a word with Scrooge and we are convinced that we are not only right but that we have been right all along. Did a tiny portion of shopping today and with a few last nanoseconds of retailing I will finish tomorrow just in the St. Nick of time. maybe next year we will rent a kid and add a layer of fresh gloss to the festive season.


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President's Message
For Such a Time as This
"I saw that when the message shall increase greatly in power, then the providence of God will open and prepare the way in the East for much more to be accomplished than can be at the present time. God will then send some of His servants in power to visit places where little or nothing can now be done, and some who are now indifferent will be aroused and will take hold of the truth" ( ). That exerpt is taken from a section in Testimonies Vol 1 entitled The East and The West. The section begins very soberingly. She says "It requires much more power to move the people in the East than in the West and at present but very little can be accomplished in the East...The people in the East have heard the proclammation of the second coming of Christ, and have seen much of the display of the power of God, and have fallen back into a state of indifference and security where it is almost impossible to reach them at present." This was written in 1857. What about now? It is my firm belief that the Atlantic Union chapter of ASI has been reinvigorated for such a time as this...150 years later. Can it be that there is a sound of abundance of rain here in the east? Elijah the Tishbite, in verse 1 of chapter 17 proclaims that there would be a drought with these words, "...there shall not be due nor rain these years, except at my word." The word of the Lord came to him ordering him to get away and hide by the Brook Cherith; a brook which flowed into the Jordan. The Lord promised that he would drink from the brook and that the ravens would feed him but alas the brook dried up because of the drought. The context, of course is a stubborn people to whom the oracles of God were entrusted but who were indifferent to God and, in fact, preferred other gods. After a dramatic display on Mount Carmel, climaxing with Elijah's offering on the altar which though drenched with water was consumed by the fire of the Lord which fell from Heaven consuming the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licking up the water that was in the trench, the people fell on their faces acknowledging God as the Lord God. Triumphantly Elijah declared that there was a sound of abundance of rain. The Bible says "...and there was a heavy rain."
I believe that we here in the Atlantic Union have been revived for such a time as this. As we see not only the US economy falling apart, but the world economy also following suit and as we see world unrest and strange weather patterns arising, we need to somehow see our places in this time in earth's history and truly be in the word, know who our redeemer is because we have been raised up for such a time as this. My prayer for our Atlantic Union ASI is that we will re-assess our lives, that we will have clarity of the message of Christ and His righteousness. I pray that we will receive "the Spirit of Christ - the Spirit of unselfish love and labor for others" so that we can "grow and bring forth fruit here in the Atlantinc Union. I believe that when Ellen White said "I saw that when the message shall increase greatly in power, then the providence of God will open and prepare the way in the East for much more to be accomplished than can be at the present time" she was referring to this very time. Note she did not say that when the economy falls apart, or natural disasters increase, or wars seem to break out at the drop of a hat. She referred to a message increasing greatly in power. What is that message? She says "It is the darkness of misapprehension of God that is enshrouding the world. Men are losing their knowledge of His character. It has been misunderstood and misinterpreted. At this time a message from God is to be proclaimed, a message illuminating in its influence and saving in its power. His character is to be made known. Into the darkness of the world is to be shed the light of His glory, the light of His goodness, mercy, and truth...The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character of love." COL p 415. This was the message of Elijah and is our timely message for today in the East.
Andi Hunsaker
President, Atlantic Union ASI


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