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Guys like this, like Cyrus Gray from A&M. http://bit.ly/H8oLPZ
Not elite, but a guy who will go to a team and can emerge as an every down, effective, productive, really good back.
Back to back 1,000 yard seasons, ran a 4.41 40-yd dash, catches the ball, etc. A guy like this will often eclipse the career of a guy like Martin or Miller or Wilson, etc.
I don't think the Browns will take a back other than Richardson early because Richardson is elite, this guy isn't. But my fear is they pass on a gifted back because they're still unwilling to get beyond Hardesty.
Or maybe they should give Hardesty one last year. Just a lot of talent to pass up if they do.


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Ellie Goulding has finally cleared up rumors that she cheated on Ed Sheeran with One Direction star Niall Horan, claiming she never dated Sheeran in the first place. She tells the new issue of Elle magazine: "I did go on a few dates with Niall, but I was never in a relationship with Ed Sheeran. I have absolutely no idea where that came from and why it was turned into such a big thing." It has been speculated that Sheeran wrote his song "Don't" about Goulding. It includes lyrics such as: "I never saw him as a threat, 'til you disappeared with him to have sex," and "you were looking for a lover to burn."
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Miley Cyrus posted a pair of selfies on Monday wearing a tiny pink string bikini, showing off her toned bod while hanging around at home. She wears the two-piece in a new video for one of the seven new songs she wrote and recorded with the Flaming Lips, and pal Wayne Coyne, the band's frontman, posted a photo from the shoot on his own Instagram page. Miley wears the same bikini as she rides an ATV in the photo, which Coyne captioned, "Shootin music video with mileycyrus… Haha.. No one injured yet!!" Coyne announced the collaboration album just days ago.

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Schrimsher, who turns 18 on May 22, qualified for the Youth Olympic Games on December 8, 2009, when he finished third at the Youth Olympic Games Qualification event in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But his spot on the team required final approval by the United States Olympic Committee, which was granted on May 12.
The qualification event was held to determine which athletes and their perspective countries would be invited by the International Olympic Committee to participate in the Youth Olympic Games to be held in Singapore in 2010. Only two athletes would be appointed winners from the Americas for modern pentathlon. Schrimsher won this coveted position for the USA and Mexico won the other appointment.


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Another night of inspiration from U.S. track team
Friday was another golden night for Team USA at the Olympic Stadium track, as 10 U.S. Paralympians competed in five finals and qualifying events. The team won two titles on Day 9 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Starting off a string of United States victories was 18-year-old Raymond Martin who won his third gold medal of the Games in the men's 400 – T52 race. Martin, who is competing in his first Paralympic Games, took first in a race that featured four Paralympians who are at least twice his age, including world record holder and eventual silver medalist Tomoya Ito of Japan.
Martin admitted that he has far exceeded his own expectations for London with one event still to come.
"I came in here just hoping to get some Paralympic experience, maybe get on the podium one time, and end up getting on top of the podium three times," Martin said.
He took a victory lap around the stadium, proudly waving an American flag. "I've had a few issues trying to find a flag," he said. "But I finally found one [in the crowd] and got to do my victory lap. I'm really proud because I'm proud to race for my country."
Martin has a quick turnaround with a preliminary for his final event, the Men's 200m - T52, on Saturday morning at 10:42 a.m. "I need to get a lot of rest. I'm just going to go back to the village, hop in the bed, get a good night's sleep, and get ready for the prelim tomorrow morning."
Not to be outshined by Martin, Tatyana McFadden also won her third gold medal of the Games in the women's 1500m - T54. Three-time U.S. Paralympian Shirley Reilly came in third in that race, winning bronze, to bring her medal total to two for the Games (silver in the women's 5000m – T54).
McFadden, who trains with Martin, was able to see him win his race as she was preparing for her own. "I actually saw his race in the call room because I was staging and that was really cool to see Raymond win," she said. "We all definitely support each other out here."
Martin got to do her fair share of supporting later on in the night. Just moments before Blake Leeper's 400m – T44 semifinal, McFadden was on the medal stand to accept her third gold medal in three events.
Hearing the Star-Spangled Banner right before he raced turned out to be a surreal moment for Leeper, who has a bronze medal from the 200m (T44).
"It amped me up," he said. "Tatyana is an amazing athlete and hearing the national anthem right before you race – that's all I needed. I want to thank her for that."
Leeper easily qualified for the final and set an Americans regional record with a time of 50.63.
When told about Blake's reaction to her ceremony, McFadden was not surprised.
"It's a song that you can't hear enough," she said. "I actually heard Raymond [Martin's] before I raced yesterday and it does get you pumped and it does get you really excited."
The second semifinal for the 400m –T44 featured the headline grabbing South African Oscar Pistorius, first amputee to compete in the Olympic Games, and Americans David Prince and Jarryd Wallace. Pistorius had no trouble winning the semi but Prince, in third, automatically qualified as well.
Wallace on the other hand, grabbed the final spot for Saturday night's final by being the fastest sprinter outside of the Top 3 in each semifinal.
"It was only my second time running the 400m in my life as an amputee so to be able to get a [personal record] by two seconds and qualify for the final in the biggest Games ever is unbelievable," Wallace said.
The final featuring Wallace, Prince, and Leeper will take place tomorrow night at 9:57 p.m. in London. Other finals include men's high jump - F46, with defending champion Jeff Skiba and Richard Browne, who won a surprise silver medal in Thursday's 100m, and the women's 400m - T53 with Reilly and U.S. racers Jessica Galli and Anjali Forber-Pratt.


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After that he will receive by email an url to edit or delete that record.
A good example of this approach is doodle.
In doodle we can add an appointment/schedule without register. After that we will receive by email the url where other people can contribute and the url to edit or delete the appointment.
For instance, the url is like that:
http://www.doodle.com/6zd6r3fspv2cpq59 -> For visualization and participation of other persons
http://www.doodle.com/6zd6r3fspv2cpq597r4fw29n/admin -> The link for the creator of the record. To edit or delete the pool.
My approach is similar. I would like to have a token for edit or delete and a partial (part of) token for visualization. What will be the best approach for this ?
I can generate the token with a random string or a UUID to be the unique id of my table. The problem is with the partial of that token because I can't guarantee that when I truncate the token I don't get more than one record. I'm missing something ? What is your advice for this particular case?
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Segovia and four nearby cities release as much as 100 tons of mercury each year into the air and soil.balance, and damaged kidneys — ailments common to acute mercury vapor intoxication. But somehow kidney dialysis worked, and, slowly, movement returned to his arms and legs. Four months later, Atehortua returned to the entable, famous among Segovia's miners as the azogado who had miraculously recovered from paralysis.
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You may have noticed a lot of increased talk about "food security" lately, particularly in the international development realm. There's good reason for that.
A family experiences food security when it lives without hunger or even fear of hunger. In essence, it means that people have enough food to live happy, healthy lives. It's a right I'm sure we all wish were accessible to every man, woman, and child on the planet.
Yet global hunger and chronic malnutrition remain two of the greatest development challenges today. Nearly 20 percent of all people in the world live on less than $1.25 a day, and almost one billion suffer from chronic hunger. Compounding this problem is the fact that, by 2050, the global population is expected to grow to more than nine billion people, requiring up to a 70 percent increase in agricultural production to feed us all. Given increasingly limited natural resources, we'll also need to produce this additional food with less land, water, and other resources.
The challenge is indeed great, but there are opportunities for solutions. An estimated 75 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas, where farming can be a key economic driver. Because growth in agriculture is, on average, at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors, we already know that investments in agricultural development are fundamental to alleviating hunger and propelling long-term economic growth.
The time to accelerate these investments and growth is now. The G-8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy and the World Food Summit in Rome in 2009 united the global community to intensify efforts to advance food security by scaling up investment in the agricultural sector, which had been suffering from extreme underinvestment for several years.
Feed the Future is the United States' contribution to this collaborative global effort, which is centered on country-owned processes to improve food security, agricultural production, nutrition, trade, and broad-based economic growth through development of the agricultural sector. We've made a lot of progress, as a recent report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs has noted. But we're only just getting started.
Three years after L'Aquila, the leaders of the G8 are preparing to meet once again, this time at the 2012 G8 Summit at Camp David on May 19. This Summit is expected to build upon the food and nutrition successes of L'Aquila by focusing on creating a better environment to mobilize private sector investment as a catalyst for long-term economic growth.
Through the collective engagement of international donors, country governments, the private sector, the NGO community, and civil society organizations, we can help break the cycle of hunger and poverty so that countries can feed themselves, helping their communities to thrive. This work is important because it translates to a healthy, prosperous, and sustainable future for us all.
Editor's Note: This entry also appears on Feed the Future's Blog and USAID's Impact Blog.
Scarlet H. in Nigeria writes:
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Palgye in South Korea writes:
Need colony making food not major.
need colony, for the poverty, not consider profit.
in this kind of food supply system, every year making, not occur, making the victim, yes the dead.
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and not consider profit, colony.
Mari in the U.S.A. writes:
You article falsely claims that "we'll also need to produce this additional food with less land, water, and other resources." There is more water on this planet than we could ever possibly need, but it needs to be desalinated and/or moved to areas where it is needed. Investment should be directed into the necessary infrastructure to accomplish this. There are also vast areas of land that should be reclaimed, just as the once-lifeless Imperial Valley was reclaimed in California. Finally, the US should campaign for the repeal of disincentives to agricultural self-sufficiency, such as the World Trade Organization's penalties on countries which try to become self-sufficient in food production.


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Music Without Borders (Music) with Joel Cohen 02/03/2014 10:00AM to 12:00PM
10:02AM-10:04AM (2:40) Billy McLaughlin "Fingerdance" composed by Billy McLaughlin from Fingerdance (1998) on narada
10:04AM-10:09AM (5:12) Billy McLaughlin "Helms Place" composed by Billy McLaughlin from Fingerdance (1998) on narada
10:09AM-10:12AM (3:00) Tim Farrell "Little Martha" composed by Duane Allman from Guitar Fingerstyle (A Narada Collection) (1995) on narada
10:12AM-10:16AM (3:13) William Coulter & Benjamin Verdery "Mna Na Heireann" composed by trad./Coulter from unknown on Unknown
10:16AM-10:45AM (29:42) Aurora Quartet "String Quartet No. 5, op 44#3, in Eb Major: I Allegro vivace; IIScherzo; III Adagio non troppo; IV Molto allegro con fuoco" composed by Felix Mendelssohn from Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 5 on Naxos Local
10:47AM-10:52AM (5:09) Alex de Grassi "Ripple" composed by Alex de Grassi from The Water Garden (1998) on tropo records
10:58AM-11:02AM (3:37) Alex de Grassi "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" composed by Charles Mingus/arr. de Grassi from Bolivian Blues Bar (1999) on narada Local
11:02AM-11:06AM (4:30) Alex de Grassi "Another Shore" composed by Alex de Grassi from The Water Garden (1998) on tropo records
11:08AM-11:12AM (3:33) To B or Not To B "Muriel Anderson" composed by Muriel Anderson from Guitar Fingerstyle (A Narada Collection) on narada
11:14AM-11:18AM (3:58) Tony McManus "Reel de la Sauvagine" composed by trad. from The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions) (2008) on Compass Records Group
11:18AM-11:23AM (5:20) Deborah Henson-Conant "Summertime" composed by George Gershwin/arr. Deborah Henson-Conant from Just For You - Live in Concert (2000) on Golden Cage Records
11:25AM-11:28AM (3:00) Music's recreation "Fantasia-Suite in G Minor: I. Almaine; II. Fantasia; III Galliard" composed by William Lawes from Fantazia-Suites for Violin, Bass Viol and Organ on Unknown
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I went to Wal-Mart yesterday and lost my vehicle. True story, and one that I hope not to experience again any time soon.
I sailed into the parking lot just like I do on almost every given day it seems. You'd think that by now I would have earned a designated spot with my name on it, but since I apparently haven't achieved that rank just yet, I found the nearest-to-the-door convenient parking spot and hustled into the store, with a thousand things on my mind and no shopping list.
Hmmmmm…I need some low carb stuff. Weight Watchers didn't work last week and low-fat just isn't getting the job done and as much as I am craving something with a little crunch to it, I better opt for low carb this week, so I'm thinking all the way into the store and as I enter, the sorts of no or low-carb items that would cause me to drop 23 pounds in the next six days. And God forbid that I should fit in any form of exercise in the daily routine. At this point, my body would go into shock if I actually forced one foot to move in front of the other on an oval track for any significant period of time.
And so….it's lettuce and more lettuce, tomatoes (though in limited amounts), eggs, Cool Whip Free, Jell-O (there's always room)…some more leafy greenish veggies and a box (that's right, great stuff) of wine (that would be my "fruit group" for the week).
When you're so busy making mental notes, who has time to look up at those numbers overhead at the front of each row of parking to perhaps have a point of reference upon exiting the store? Not Minnie. That would make way too much sense.
And so, exiting the store among the throngs of preschool children who were successful in screaming loud and long enough to gain some bluish candy at the counter, which by the time they exit the doors is oozing out of their bluish lips, I trek to the parking lot with bags in tow. I've wisely decided that I can handle the weight of five bags of groceries without the aid of a cart…carts are for sissies.
I proceed to the right, toward the end of the parking lot where I usually find a spot, and I realize that my vehicle is nowhere in sight. Seems like I might have not parked in my usual row, but where……..hmmmmmm again…..and again……I try to avoid standing perfectly still, looking in both directions. That would be a dead giveaway. I've seen people do this as I'm in my vehicle (which is where I wished I was about then), and it's a dead giveaway..they don't have a clue where their vehicle is.
I casually look over a row or two of cars, like I'm looking for a friend or to gauge the wind. No sign of my Jeep. I begin to walk, but just choose a direction at random, since by now the throngs behind me, including the bluish monster children, are beginning to think I'm stalking them.
Months ago I changed the system on my vehicle so that when you punch the unlock or the lock remote on the key, the lights flash, but the horn does not sound. I found that very annoying. About now I'd pay good money for that annoying horn to honk.
I casually roam through the lot. It's daylight, so the lights flashing does me no good at all. Oh, for the sound of that annoying horn! I roam down one, two, three double rows of traffic. It's hot, about 95 in the shade. And I'm not in the shade. I'm beginning to sweat and I don't like it….reminds me that I forgot to pick up deodorant. Doesn't matter. I'm going to drop dead from heat exhaustion anyway. Of course, I might have smelled better for the paramedics. Who cares…I'll be a gonner…but, they might tell my children. Should have written it down.
My Skinny Cows are turning into fat brownish blobs of goo in my grocery bag, and the checkout kid with an earring in his or her lip (the jury's still out as to its gender) didn't use a freezer bag, so it's just the thin plastic between the oozing Cow and my white capris. Oh well, Skinny Cows have a few too many carbs anyway. But I think all the bad carbs have left a chocolaty trail through rows 2 through 5. Where in the hell is my Jeep?
By now, I've ventured from the Food doors all the way across to the Garden doors and no vehicle. I've punched the remote unlock button so many time, I've worn a blister on my thumb, which reminds me…forgot to get Dora band aids for the granddaughter. Maybe next time, if she behaves. No bluish oozing candy for MY grandchildren. If they're good, they get Band-Aids, or perhaps a salmonella-free tomato ….works for me.
Back to the parking lot….People are beginning to stare and I know they're making fun of the old woman with the oozing bags who is trying to act nonchalant while looking for a missing vehicle. They know, cause they've all been there.
AND THEN IT COMES TO ME…like a knight in shining armor in a dream….I didn't park in the lot. I found an opening along the side of the building in that row of single side-by-side spaces. I turn around in row 7, as if I've realized I've forgotten to purchase an item in the store. (In reality, of course, I've forgotten at least 14 items, but who's counting?)
I trek across the lot, all the way to Row 1 and I turn south (I think…it's just an assumption since I have no sense of direction)… I walk and I look and I look and I walk and then I pray…something I probably should have done 15 minutes ago. Where is that darned St. Anthony when you need him? But then the patron saint of lost items comes through for me as he has for fifty-some years when caught in a pinch. My Jeep….in all its glory…parked in the second from the last space on the east (or is it the west?) side of the building, hidden behind several other oversized SUVs. There it was with lights flashing. It's a wonder the battery wasn't dead from the lights having flashed for so long. I approach it as if I knew exactly where I was headed all the time…just wanted to take the scenic route for a change.
I place my liquid Skinny Cows in the rear compartment with plans to sip them from a crazy straw (purchased months ago for the same granddaughter who has earned the Dora Band-Aids) upon arriving home.
The next time I go to Wal-Mart, I'm taking breadcrumbs.
Minnie O'
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Minnie O: I am recommending no more fad diets for you. Also, get rid of the Jeep and get a 1968 Galaxie....can't miss that one.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Tue, Jul 8, 2008, at 11:06 PM
I'm thinking of shoving one of those yellow tennis balls on my antennae just in case. You can spot those dudes from a mile away! Of course, those breadcrumbs couldn't hurt...just hope there aren't too many hungry robins in your path.
-- Posted by bringwine on Tue, Jul 8, 2008, at 11:35 PM
It sounds like to me that Minnie O might eat the bread crumbs before she throws them on the ground. My advice to you is quit shopping at Wal-Mart. What good has it done to your small town besides employee a few extra people. Reference your "historic" downtown and that is what Wal-Mart has done. It looks like a ghost town. Wal-Marts products are awful and their service is worse.
-- Posted by BonScott on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 12:42 AM
This has been quite a day. First, I agreed with shannonhoon about Obama...now I'm agreeing with bonscott about Wal-Mart's service. What is this world coming to???
I have had SO many problems out of the "customer service" (it is to laugh) people at that store, I've just about called Wal-Mart quits altogether. They are rude, hateful, and very much the opposite of helpful. You can be looking for something, and if and when you find the person that works in or stocks that dept. to ask for help, they not only give you grief for interupting their "job"...they also can't help you find what you're looking for because they don't have a clue where it's at either! Oh, and don't get me started on the "Customer Service" desk. Not to mention they treat their employees like CRAP! No, I haven't ever worked there...I've tried...but apparently me being able to pass a drug test, and not having a prior criminal background meant I didn't qualify.
If it weren't for them carrying 99% of the stuff no one else carries (or the stuff other people carry for a higher price), I wouldn't go.
As for the actual blog topic at hand...Minnie, I've been there and done that. My only problems were 1. My children were screaming because I didn't get them that slimy blue candy, and 2. My battery was almost dead on my remote, so I would have had to been 2 feet from my car for that to work. I think it's happened to all of us...I just hope, for my sake and yours, that it never happens again!
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 3:34 AM
SO, you're the reason I couldnt find that convenient parking on the east, or is west? side of the building. Now they have no-parking cones in 2 spaces,, what a brilliant idea,, must be that managers idea,, she has some dillies???? If it wasnt for saving $10 on every $50 dollar purchase, I'd quit shopping there.
-- Posted by changedname on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 8:56 AM
You people are obviously capitalists and will continue to support the demon (WalMart). I haven't seen dillies on the WalMart Manager, but will be looking next time.
Bon, don't dis Historic DTD....still have Benny Franklin, Hubbard's, Chrisman, Greg's, and a few pawn shops that have some killer electronics.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 9:15 AM
I'm going to leave the shopping topic alone and weigh in (pun intended)on the food subject. My doctor recommended the South Beach diet, and I've found that it eliminates those wretched cravings. It's not a diet as much as a sensible way of eating, and it's been easy for me to follow. If you're interested, Keller Library has the book.
-- Posted by gardengirl on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 12:53 PM
Minnie, girl, what a pleasant surprise to find you here at the top of the heap again!! Your blog wore me out, so I had to go get a Skinny Cow out of the frig!
I do not do Walmart no more! Gotta draw the line somewhere!
What's wrong with a Jeep?? Just turn on that horn gadget again. You'll be fine as soon as you get the melted ice cream out of your capris.
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 9:19 PM
Goat...you know you do Wal Mart when necessary......WOW.
Who's the Doc Gardengal...? Never heard a doc prescribe that one.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 9:59 PM
No, I don't do Walmart, hoon. Would I lie about such an important thing? There are better choices in other places. As long as I have a DG for the cheap stuff, I can get by until I get to Target.
Isn't somebody gonna say that the downtown was going down before Walmart? That's the usual thread of conversation. I wasn't around when it happened, so I don't know.
When did the Dexter Walmart go in?
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 10:18 PM
goat lady, the downtown was going very well when Wal-Mart showed up. I think Wal-Mart has been in Dexter for 25+ years now. I also shop at Target. I couldn't tell you the last time I have bought something from Wal-Mart.
-- Posted by BonScott on Wed, Jul 9, 2008, at 11:11 PM
Goat, you know you do WalMart in emergency situations.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 8:29 AM
Too bad. The only problem I remember about the downtown was the parking, and that was a minor problem which all downtown areas had in common. The move to the "suburbs" has affected a lot of towns, large and small, and only belatedly have residents realized what they gave up. Some towns are trying to back up and start over, but it's hard to find the money.
I find the atmosphere in the Walmart stores oppressive: I can't stand all that loud music, not too mention the screaming kids. Only once have I found that condition in Target. Still, in all fairness, Target is no solution, either. It's still taking business away from the downtown areas.
Our society's mobility as a result of the automobile has doomed the small downtown businesses.
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 8:33 AM
Hoon, I do NOT have emergencies which require Walmart! What kind of "emergency" could you possibly have to force you to go into that store?? Perscriptions? There are drug stores for that. Personal products? Dollar General. Shoes? Who wants to wear Walmart shoes, anyway? I'd be totally crippled if I did that! Bread and eggs? Grocery store.
I rest my case. You'll never see me in Walmart...(hahaha! Wouldn't recognize me without my goats, anyway!!)
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 8:39 AM
Welcome back, Minnie! I, too, have been guilty of slipping into Walmart from time to time...but no more!
The last time, after approaching a Walmart employee asking if he could please tell me where to find the baking goods, he replied "um... um... I donno". End of discussion.
I then approached another young woman in Walmart garb and asked the same question. Her reply? "Well...they used to be over there".
If I sneak in again, it will be in disguise...and I will be on the alert for goats, too.
-- Posted by letseatcake633 on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 9:03 AM
So businesses employing lots of local people take away business? Interesting.
Stop blaming WalMart for all of your worries. And stop asking for things, they have signs all over the place to tell you where to go. The baking goods are to the left eatcake. Even a dead rocker knows that.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 4:38 PM
hoon, they don't employee enough people to make a dent, you know that. In my situation, it is personal, and they also treat their vendors like s***. I bet they don't have a hundred people employed there from Dexter.
-- Posted by BonScott on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 4:54 PM
Cake! I thought you were dead! We haven't heard from you in a coon's age... (Just stay a good distance away from my goats with those special cakes!!)
Hey, maybe the dead rockers would like a bite...???
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 5:22 PM
This blogging is contaminating my vocabulary. I have read Booger, terd, and now S*** all in the same day. XXX
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 7:58 PM
Dead rocker? Did someone call me a dead rocker? What does that mean? GL...what are these blogs becomming? P.S. I would never hurt one of your little goats.
-- Posted by letseatcake633 on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 8:54 PM
Cake...GT.. and hoon..(if indeed that IS your real name)...
When you pay with a debit or credit card at Wal-Mart (hereto referred to as "WM"), you have an option before you slide your debit or credit card to answer a simple question Yes or No. On the little screen, it says, "Did your cashier greet you kindly today?" ..or something like that. A few times, they haven't and so I pushed 'No,' but I suspect that when you do that, the cashier automatically gets some kind of message or signal on her side of the screen ordering her to cheer up, becaue it seems they attempt to after you choose the 'No' option. I figure if they know they're being reported, though, that they'll squeeze that dozen of eggs extra hard before placing it in the bag, which by the way could hold about 10 more pounds of groceries. Here's almost cause for another blog....why do WM cashiers place one or two items in a bag when they could place 10? I'm certain they are taught to do so to give shoppers the impression that they're getting more for their money, which is usually the case anyway at WM. In the meantime, though, we're taking home 12 plastic bags when we could have done well with about 4....and picking up the price of that plastic. I recall when some shoppers used to carry in their own canvas kind of baskets to shop...not sure why. And remember, "Paper or plastic?" Most under 30 wouldn't know what a cashier was talking about if they asked that these days.
WM has a lot of products that I can't get anywhere else...like good Feta cheese and colored pasta and Skinny Cows! I like picking up a loaf of Rosemary French bread at the same place as panel nails and a phone charger.
With age comes wisdom, they say, and I've become wise enough to complain to the manager if an employee is rude or overbearing or not helpful. I do agree that they need more help on the floor, especially in the grocery department. We don't want Cakelady to miss out on any vital ingredients...husband number 17 may be hungry for a snack.
-- Posted by bringwine on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 9:27 PM
Oh, Minnie, you always hit the proverbial nail on the proverbial head - every time!! I have SO missed your wit and wisdom! It's been a wasteland out here with only hoon and his headbanging buddies to keep us company. Ruining his vocabulary, my......ooops, booger!
Cake, you've also been away a long time, and the blogs have gone through a time warp in your absense. We are now on the other side of the moon, having been absorbed into a black hole of confusion and disarray.
You must frequent us more often to remind us of the good ole days, when we could mix up our little recipes, fight the creeping kudzu vines, and help Ducky chunk punkins over the ramparts. What fun times!
I do like the various flavors of tortilla wraps found at WM (spinach is my favorite). I shall have to send my little trick goat in to pilfer them for me! The screaming children will be so distracting that no one will ever notice that they're a few tortillas short of a full load...
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 9:48 PM
While you're at it, GT...pick up some chocolate Skinny Cows for me. WM started carrying a "variety pack" of chocolate and vanilla...heaven, pure 99 percent fat free heaven!
-- Posted by bringwine on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 10:17 PM
bringwine, if you live by your blog name, I sure hope you don't go to Wally World to buy your wine. Because they definitely don't sell wine that's worth a crap.
-- Posted by BonScott on Thu, Jul 10, 2008, at 11:35 PM
They do too sell decent wine. Martini and Rossi Asti is good, and it's only $12.99! lol.
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Fri, Jul 11, 2008, at 12:47 AM
Chocolate Skinny Cows!! Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Heaven! Now if I can just stay away from McD's oreo McFlurry!! Soooo cold on a hot day!!
-- Posted by goat lady on Fri, Jul 11, 2008, at 6:27 AM
Told you Goat shops there.....She is a supporter.
When I think wasteland, I think of two of you posting back and forth in total agreement on every topic......PUKE. If you would like, we can go away again for a couple of weeks and give you peace.
Stop talking about all the things you guys LOVE to buy and HAVE to buy at WalMart, and in the same topic bash the place. Either shut up and shop, or stop going.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Fri, Jul 11, 2008, at 8:33 AM
shannonhoon,just got back online; and the doctor in question is Jalal, local internist. And the peanut butter made with sesame oil that fits the South Beach plan I've only been able to find at WM. I do try to support the smaller stores and asked my usual grocer to stock it, but he can't get it.
-- Posted by gardengirl on Fri, Jul 11, 2008, at 11:08 AM
Oh, please don't go away and leave us without your caustic wit and irreverent attitude toward all living things, hoon! Who would we spar with if all the dead rockers were gone??
And, by the way, I get my Skinny Cows elsewhere! WM doesn't have the market cornered on SC.
-- Posted by goat lady on Fri, Jul 11, 2008, at 4:07 PM
You are full of it....Goat, you just lost ALL credibtility with me and anyone who knows Dr. J. He would NOT tell you to prescribe to the South Beach diet.......He would ONLY tell you to exercise and watch what you eat. So, just as before...you lied about NOT shopping at WalMart when in fact you do......and now you are slandering Dr. J who would NOT tell you to do a fad diet.........I may type goofy, sarcastic, crap, but I will NOT slander a Doc.....you just did...FACT.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Fri, Jul 11, 2008, at 10:14 PM
I can't get enough of Wal Mart. I need at least one daily fix.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Fri, Jul 11, 2008, at 10:58 PM
hoon...it was gardengirl that said all that...not goat lady.
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Sat, Jul 12, 2008, at 12:08 AM
Why is everybody bashing Dr. J. He brought the ABA to the NBA, and he could also dunk from the free throw line.
-- Posted by BonScott on Sat, Jul 12, 2008, at 1:40 AM
Hoon, I'm making one final comment on the Walmart issue, and then I'm done. Not every person who posts comments on this site is from Dexter. Some of us may not live anywhere near a Walmart, so our boycott of the mega store is only a minor inconvenience. I guess I should have made that clear earlier, so you wouldn't have had to get so enraged and question my credibility. Let's please let it drop, okay? I'm sure everyone is getting tired of hearing us rant about it.
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Jul 12, 2008, at 8:03 AM
OK, so many "Amens," confessions and "enragements,"...new word, but I think that Minnie would approve. I felt, for just a bit, that I was attending a Southern Baptist revival! Not to instigate the blogmosphere with a charge from the Baptist element of things...oohhhh, I can hear them marching with snare drum and guitar in hand…no wait, that's the Methodists…no, the Disciples….no, the Catholics…., well, it's certainly not the Pentecostals.
On the Dr. J issue...he went on the South Beach diet himself, lost quite a bit. It's a sensible diet and great for diabetics. One does tend to gain weight once carbs are re-introduced into the steady diet, but that's just common sense. If we wish to devour potatoes and bread and chocolate brownies and sugar-sweetened drinks, then we ought to be prepared for the old spare tire to inflate itself around our mid-section.
Those of you who are under 50, beware....it lurks just over the horizon!
-- Posted by bringwine on Sat, Jul 12, 2008, at 3:20 PM
-- Posted by bringwine on Sat, Jul 12, 2008, at 3:37 PM
If Wal Mart ain't got it, I don't need it.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Sun, Jul 13, 2008, at 12:53 AM
I.B., I don't know if I can rationalize that type of thinking. Can you please explain?
-- Posted by BonScott on Sun, Jul 13, 2008, at 12:31 PM
Oh, I.B., that's so sad!! There's a whole wonderful market out there, beyond the walls of Wally World!
Let me send you a few catalogs to get you started!
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Jul 13, 2008, at 5:16 PM
Is it Amen or Ah*men? Just curious. Man, this beer sure is cold.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Mon, Jul 14, 2008, at 9:38 AM
shannonhoon, Dr J most certainly did recommend the South Beach diet. It is not a fad diet; it was devised by a cardiologist for the overall health of his heart patients. When it was discovered that they lost weight, also; it became a fad in south Florida, but it's been around for several years and has been widely accepted. Do you work nights? I can't imagine having a cold beer at 9:00 am otherwise.
-- Posted by gardengirl on Mon, Jul 14, 2008, at 10:25 AM
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Its 5:00 Somewhere. South Florida? Are you sure it wasn't South Beach in LA? I seem to remember a diet like that when we played the Whiskey.
So is it A*men or Ah*men? Need to know.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Mon, Jul 14, 2008, at 4:04 PM
I believe that to precede the "men" with "Ah" would indicate a sense of relief, as in "AHHHHHH,"...the sensation that hoonowski has no doubt experienced having raised a few cold ones at the end (or the beginning) of a hard day's work.
With that in mind, and having resorted to seeking out an old Catechism, (oh, another blog altogether...)...I'm voting for "Amen," although "Awomen" might be more appropriate, depending upon the situation at hand.
-- Posted by bringwine on Mon, Jul 14, 2008, at 8:30 PM
Bringwinini: Stop talking of my sensations and don't change that song, its my favorite record.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Mon, Jul 14, 2008, at 11:47 PM
" Oh, I.B., that's so sad!! There's a whole wonderful market out there, beyond the walls of Wally World!
Let me send you a few catalogs to get you started!
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Jul 13, 2008, at 5:16 PM "
Thank you!!
-- Posted by myheart on Tue, Jul 15, 2008, at 10:21 AM
About WalMart: I boycotted the store successfully for an entire year. Yes, there are other places to shop and many with better prices. I am now 6 months into my second year of boycott. I guess I come from the Era of Protest, but even one person can make a difference. (please no sarcasm about that last comment!)
-- Posted by ct on Thu, Jul 17, 2008, at 10:47 AM
You got to staaaaaand, staaaaaand, stand for whatcha believe.
You know you got to staaaaaand, staaaaaand, stand for whatcha believe.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Jul 17, 2008, at 2:23 PM
I have NOT spent a dime in Wal-Mart in over 11 years and will not allow my wife to either. That store is the scourge of America's small towns. Luckily, the towns out west are voting them out before they move in.
Minnie O, you're obviously obsessed with Wal-Mart. You need a life. I hope you get one soon. Wal-Mart SUCKS and their stock has not been worth a crap for about 15 years or more. Look it up…Please. Stock ticker is WMT. You would make as much money by running your dollar bills through a shredder.
-- Posted by Jim Morrison on Fri, Jul 18, 2008, at 12:06 AM
I don't understand why Wal-Mart wouldn't be making money for their stock holders? I had an aunt who made a good bit of money with early Wal-Mart stock. I wonder what's happened?
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Jul 19, 2008, at 6:58 AM
Minnie, please don't get lost in the Wal-Mart parking lot again. Look at all the wonderful controversy your blogs precipitate. Blog on!
It's pretty much a given in municipal circles that all the "big box retailers," including Wal-Mart, do more harm to a local economy than they do good in the way of creating jobs. The real hard part comes after they've driven out all the locally owned businesses, then decide they aren't happy with their bottom line and close. The local businesses are gone and your city has a great big empty box.
Unfortunately, the "city planners" include some of my favorites in their big box net: Lowe's and Home Depot. Horrors.
I don't boycot WM specifically, but I buy locally whenever I can.
-- Posted by Ducky on Sat, Jul 19, 2008, at 11:25 PM
I ran my bills through and shredder once and I didn't make squat. Last time I will do that. Jimmy, not to burst your bubble, but your wife was seen looking over the plants and flowers with a wig and shades on the other day. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Hey....let 'em do it again.....oooooh
I......I didn't say it was OKaaaaaayyyy.....noooooooo ooooooooh
Why....Why'd you slap me in the face........oooooowwwwwww
I....I won't do it again......noooooooooo ooooooooh
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Sat, Jul 19, 2008, at 11:27 PM
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The one that tastes best?
Haha...and that would be...
This might help:http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,1273.0.htmlhttp://www.gardenguides.com/2650-napoletano-basil-seeds-bulbs.html
Hmmm hoisin sauce instead of tomato, rice flour.........
Thanks for link. I can't wait to see what weird cross pollination occurs between the Neapolitan basil and my Thai basil. Should be a wild pizza making time next year.
I planted some yesterday. We'll see what happens.


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Baked chicken cutlets covered in parmesan bread crumbs and topped with pepperoni and mozzarella cheese. If pizza and chicken Parmesan fell in love and had a baby together this is what it would look like. A delicious fusion of the two classics.
It's served with spaghetti and a quick, homemade sauce that is a cinch to throw together. To save time you can skip the homemade sauce and use your favorite jarred. Doing that easily turns it into a 30-minute meal. A meal you can make in a hurry but with such an impressive outcome everyone will think you slaved over the stove all day.
I love that.
The pepperoni adds a spicy punch that kicks up the flavor a notch or two. That's where the 'pizza' in the 'pizzaiola' comes in. Combined with the mozzarella and the tomato sauce your taste buds think you're eating pizza, with the chicken acting as a stand-in for the crust.
If you're craving pizza, this might not do the trick but if you're looking to change-up your traditional chicken Parmesan routine or just need a quick dinner idea, then this is your answer.
It works like a charm.
Baked chicken cutlets covered in Parmesan bread crumbs and topped with pepperoni and mozzarella cheese, served with spaghetti and an easy tomato sauce.
- In a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan heat the oil over medium-low heat. Add the onion, pepper, garlic and Italian seasoning. Season well with salt and pepper. Cook until tender about 10 minutes, stirring often.
- Mix in the crushed tomatoes, about 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper. Add about 1/4 cup water to the empty tomato can and slosh it around to mix with any remaining sauce and add it to the pan.
- Bring to a simmer and cook 25 - 30 minutes, stirring often. Taste halfway through and again at the end and season as needed.
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly grease a large roasting pan or baking sheet with sides large enough to comfortably fit all the chicken.
- In a wide, shallow dish mix the Parmesan and bread crumbs together. Season the chicken on both sides with salt and pepper. Coat the chicken one at a time with the crumbs patting them on with your hands - the chicken will be thinly covered - some of the chicken will show through - that's ok. Place them in the baking sheet at least an inch apart.
- Bake 15 minutes. Meanwhile cook the spaghetti in plenty of boiling water according to package directions to al dente. Reserve 1/2 cup of the cooking water before draining.
- Remove the chicken from the oven and top with the pepperoni - dividing it up evenly between the chicken, then do the same with the mozzarella, piling it on top. Put them back in the oven about 5 minutes until cheese is completely melted. Chicken should measure internal temperature of 165 - 175 degrees F. If you want the cheese to be golden you can place them briefly under the broiler.
- Mix the sauce into the spaghetti over low heat, mixing in a little of the reserved starchy water from cooking the spaghetti. Serve with the chicken and extra Parmesan for garnish.
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Thanks David. Your technique is very interesting especially with the late addition of the bacteria into the mix. How much culture did you add to the dough in your estimate (% wise)? How long did you ferment before you added the bacteria into the mix and how many total hours did you ferment the dough before baking? all room temp fermentation? Marlon
Toby was an ace with his oven. Whatever happened to him?
I'm not so much adding bacteria as I am letting it in. To let bacteria in, I simply stop doing the things I'm doing to keep it out.The first time I worked with this particular culture I did not know anything about what I was doing. I simply put a small amount of yeast slurry into some dough and let it rise for 24 hours at room temperature. This resulted in a pure sourdough, which wasn't what I wanted.So this time I changed a few things. For one, I frothed the yeast. For two, I added small amounts of flour each day at a time. For three, I rotated enough fresh oxygen into the preferment from time to time to give the yeast an advantage. I did a few other things as well, but you get the gist. The more the yeast thrive, the less, it seems, the bacteria can gain any traction.
Do you think the yeast and bacteria in your culture are competing for the same food (unlike typical cultures)? If not, I could see how what you are doing would help the yeast multiply faster, but why would it have a negative effect on the bacteria again unless they were competing for the same food or perhaps your bacteria are obligatory anaerobes? Im wondering if the relatively high oxygen environment somehow makes your bacteria act more like yeast and you just dont notice them meaning they are producing more CO2 and ethanol and less acids?
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I don't know. I think your observation is very interesting. It seemes reasonable to me that the bacteria are still there doing their thing - but maybe it's just a different thing than they do under ordinary culture/dough conditions where there is less oxygen. Even if they are eating the same food supply, are you letting the food supply get to near zero? If not, would the bacteria not still be doing their thing? The yeast may be eating more, but there is still food for the bugs. Helping the yeast only hurts the bacteria if what you're doing to help the yeast also hurts the bacteria (e.g. takes their food, oxygen bad for them, some yeast byproduct hurts them, etc.) Its not intuitive to me how that would be the case here. Just because the yeast are growing faster doesn't automatically mean the bacteria are suppressed, I don't think. I stand to be corrected.It seems rather different than beer making. As you noted, beer making starts with sanitation. You culture probably starts with bacteria outnumbering your yeast by two or three orders of magnitude. CL
good question. Dunno? Maybe I need to put more quarters in the meter.
Well. There are some key modifications you need to make but it's certainly more than possible. Posters here have already shown thermocouple isolation, which is one of those things that needs to be done. Simply moving the thermocouple works well enough.I have a standard 550 degree oven.The first thing I noticed when examining the inside of the oven is that it's black. This may not be ideal. Although black colored objects typically have a high emissivity, they also have high absorption. The entire oven interior, including the surface area behind the heating elements, is black. Because the surface area behind the heating elements is black, that surface is probably going to do a fair job of absorbing radiation and dissipating that energy in the form of radiation, conduction and convection through to the outside of the oven. This is not ideal.Ideally you want the heating element to have a view factor of 1 with respect to the pizza, or the pizza stone. Because the heating elements are round, the view factor is already significantly less. To increase the effective view factor I mounted a very thin polished aluminum piece directly above the coils with a clearance of about 1 inch. This will serve as a more effective reflecting surface so that the part of the radiation that would have been transmitted through and lost due to the black surface is now reflected back towards the stone. Because of aluminum's other characteristics we don't need to worry about it melting unless it touches the heating elements directly.The next thing I noticed was the size of the compartment I was trying to heat. It had to be reduced, leaving a relatively small compartment size that could be more effectively and efficiently heated. Here aluminum foil works fine. So fine in fact that while the top portion of the entire oven compartment is very hot, the bottom portion remains cool to the touch.These minor modifications result in an oven that hits appropriate temperatures in about 15 minutes and can deliver enough BTU's to the stone surface to leapord a 12 inch pie finished in 40 seconds flat. Perfect. Just enough time to tear the basil and mozzarella.I'll fool with the pictures tomorrow.
How was the flavor of the dough?
David - Interesting choice of paper plates to serve on I was wondering if you had any theories on the micro leoparding you achieve. Most of the leoparding I get is large in nature - yours is closer to Da Michele. I know leoparding is tied to fermentation, but I have not connected the dots fully.John


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Autistic Disorder; Canada; Child Psychiatry; Depression; Tourette Syndrome; Netherlands; Neurobiology; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Neuropsychiatry
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Research includes studies on the neurobiology of childhood neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Tourette syndrome and ADHD, as well as adult depression, PTSD and addiction.
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Extensive Research DescriptionResearch includes studies on the neurobiology of childhood neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Tourette syndrome and ADHD, as well as adult depression, PTSD and addiction.
In a large Dutch collaborative study, we have demonstrated bimodal distribution of platelet serotonin in autism. Follow-up studies are attempting to identify disorder- and subgroup-specific alterations of potential etiological significance. Possible neurochemical (catecholamines) and neuroendocrine predictors and surrogates of treatment response in autism are being examined in multi-center studies coordinated by Dr. Lawrence Scahill of the Yale Child Study Center. In collaboration with Dr. Sylvie Tordjman of the University of Rennes, we are examining pineal function and sleep problems in autism, as well as investigating the relationship of ß-endorphin, pain reactivity and self-injurious behavior in autism.
Collaborative studies with three primate facilities have examined the ontogeny of neurotransmitter systems in rhesus monkeys and chimpanzee, neurochemical-behavioral correlates, and the effects of the short- and long-term SSRI in adolescent and adult rhesus. A series of collaborative human studies examine hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and sympathoadrenomedullary functioning in ADHD, Tourette syndrome, PTSD, smoking behavior, substance abuse, depression and trauma.
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- Anderson GM, Jacobs-Stannard A, Chawarska K, Volkmar FR, Kliman HJ. Placental Trophoblast Inclusions in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 61:487-91, 2007.
- Tordjman S, Anderson GM, Pichard N, et al. Nocturnal excretion of 6-sulphatoxymelatonin in children and adolescents with autistic disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 57:134-8, 2005
- Anderson GM, Barr CS, Lindell S, Durham AC, Shifrovich I, Higley JD. Time course of the effects of the serotonin-selective reuptake inhibitor sertraline on central and peripheral serotonin neurochemistry in the rhesus monkey. Psychopharmacology. 178:339-46, 2005.


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Frequently Asked Questions – ALEKS
Can I retake the ALEKS Placement Assessment?
Yes, you may take up to 2 placement assessments. You are strongly encouraged to use the learning modules in between assessments.
Can I retake the ALEKS assessment immediately?
Students must wait [48] hours between placement assessments.
Are placement assessments timed?
1) No, you are free to complete the assessment at your own pace.
How long will a placement assessment take to complete?
Placement assessments require approximately 90 minutes to complete, but the amount of time will vary. There will be a maximum of 30 questions.
Can I use a calculator while using ALEKS?
ALEKS will provide an on-screen calculator if you need one to complete a particular problem. Otherwise, you should not use a calculator.
Can I use any other resources during a placement assessment?
You should only use a pen or pencil, paper, and the resources provided by ALEKS. You should not receive assistance from friends, family, other websites, textbooks, or any other resource not provided by ALEKS. Using outside resources may lead to improper placement and ultimately course failure.
Does progress in an ALEKS Prep and Learning Module count towards placement?
No, you must complete a new placement assessment to change your placement score. Click on the placement tab on the upper right of the page from within ALEKS. Only your placement assessment scores will be used for course placement.
How long do I have access to a Prep and Learning Module?
You will have six weeks of access from the time that you start using a Prep and Learning module.
What are Progress Assessments?
While working in a Prep and Learning module you will periodically complete Progress Assessments to solidify your gains in knowledge. The results of Progress Assessments do not count toward your placement score.
What if I do not place into the course I wanted?
You can use a Prep and Learning module to review and learn, and you may take another placement assessment to improve your score.
I did not place into the class I wanted. Can I take it anyway?
No, you must achieve the minimum placement score to take each corresponding class.
What if I placed into the class I wanted?
Congratulations! Continue to use the Prep and Learning modules to improve your chances for success. The placement cutscore above is the minimum preparation required for your course! Take advantage of the targeted review and learning features in ALEKS to get a better grade in your class.
Where can I get technical help with ALEKS?