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Restauranteur Ralph Brennan demystifies fish and shellfish in his New Orleans Seafood Cookbook, with recipes like Barbecue Shrimp; Seafood and Okra Gumbo with Alligator Sausage; Creole Seasoning; and Crab Stock; plus a short excerpt on Alligator, Frog Legs and Turtle.
for 3 to 4 quarts
A mild seafood stock with just a touch of tomato paste, this crab stock can be used in a range of recipes.
Roasting the crab shells and crushing or breaking them up adds richness to the stock.
Special Equipment
One of the following:
*See Using Nonreactive Cookware (page 419 of the book).
*Hard-shell crabs that are too scrawny to yield good lump crabmeat and are used to provide crab flavor to gumbos and other preparations.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Place the crab shells in a single layer in a roasting pan, and roast them just until the shells turn bright red, about 30 minutes.
After the shells have been allowed to cool slightly, leave them in the pan and, with a meat tenderizer, kitchen mallet or edge of a large sturdy mixing spoon, crush the shells or break them into pieces as much as possible. Set the pan aside with the shell pieces and any pan juices.
Melt the butter in a heavy, nonreactive 8-quart stockpot over medium-high heat. Add the onions, celery and carrots and cook until the vegetables turn golden, about 12 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Reduce the heat to medium and stir the tomato paste. Cook the mixture about three minutes, stirring almost constantly. Stir in the wirie. Add the crab shells, any pan juices, the cool water and the bay leaves.
Bring the liquid to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 45 minutes. During this time, skim any foam or coagulants from the surface as they develop, and replenish the water as the liquid evaporates.
When the simmer is complete, strain the stock through a fine-mesh strainer.
Serving Suggestion: Use the stock immediately or allow it to cool down and store it in the refrigerator overnight or in the freezer for up to one month.
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A cool glass of freshly fizzed water will soon be only a button press away.
A refrigerator that dispense water is nothing new, but a refrigerator that dispenses water carbonated to your own preference of fizziness? That's something to write home about. Samsung unveiled one such fridge this January, at CES in collaboration with Sodastream, the company making Pepsi and Coke shake in their boots.
The fridge, which will be available in April, uses the same dispenser that traditionally outputs still water and ice and powers it with a replaceable Sodastream CO2 cylinder. Like the Sodastream machine, there are three levels of carbonation that the user can choose from, to achieve optimum bubbles.
It is a smart collaboration on Samsung's part and is just one more step in Sodastream's battle against plastic. The company's CEO Daniel Birnbaum told Forbes:
The future is clear – there will be no more need to buy, carry, store and find a way to dispose the billions of plastic bottles and cans to enjoy fresh, delicious fizzy drinks at home. The days of this old habit are numbered, as our technology is beating a path to a cleaner, less-expensive and healthier future for consumers and the planet.
It seems that saving the environment comes at a cost, the fridge will retail for $3899.
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The new emergence – the photo-shoot craze .
Graduations, self-portraits, newborn photos, weddings, prom, a child's first recital, everything now of days are captured behind a lens. In a world that's based on image more than inner beauty, of sometimes we lose sight of what matters the most; self. Documenting two student photographers here on campus, I learned that there is quite a bit of passion with photography.
Rosebeth Akharamen
Rosebeth Akharamen, 22, senior, a Health Sciences major and Child development minor from Houston, Texas shares her experience with owning a DSLR on campus.
Owning her first DSLR professional camera in the winter of 2009, Rosebeth became fascinated with the art of photography. At the mere age of 19, she was in and about, snapping photos of different events around campus. One in which was with Fonzworth Bentley, a musician and author who worked and assisted for music mogul, Sean "Diddy" Combs. That event was hosted by the Multicultural Center back in 2010. He talked about success and how important it is to get an education while were young.
"That was one of the biggest projects, I've ever done." She states.
Owning a Canon DSLR camera, she knew right away that a Canon would be her first choice. "I already owned a Canon point and shoot so, me choosing a Canon DSLR wasn't hard at all." Akharamen said.
Gradually working her way with cameras Akharamen's first camera was one from Walgreens, she talks about how she hated it due to the low quality. "I hate it! The quality was so low…I don't even remember the name of it."
"The Canon I decided to try out a camera with a long zoom so I received the Sony Cyber-shot."Over the course of receiving her DSLR camera, she received a Canon Power shot and Sony Cyber-shot.
There are many areas of photography you can go into, from fashion editorials to studio portrait work or even nature photography. But one area that has sparked her interest would be graduation shoots; she finds enjoyment in making her clients happy.
"It has been a great experience especially since I never thought people would be asking me to take their pictures in the first place." She continues. "Graduation season is great for me… I guess some people do like my work so they hire me."
Although she's taking one day at a time, she's unsure if photography might be the big-deal breaker for her. Stating that taking her time is what she's dwelling on right now. "Who knows what my future holds I'm taking it one day at a time if the Lord wants me to do this then he will put it to action."
Akharamen loves working with DSLR cameras, stating that she loves the professional look of the overall photo is enough satisfaction for her.
"DSLR is more of an advancement to pictures; you get more focus and an overall different view of your subjects. Whereas point and shoots are your basic eye level cameras they take nice photos for your basic needs."
Working with students can sometimes be a bit overwhelming she states, but that doesn't stop her love for taking photos of special occasions.
"I love the advantages that come with students which are taking photos of sentimental moments caught." She continues, "I can also explore the city of Nacogdoches, the wild life is beautiful and in plus this gives me a much needed time to practice."
Displaying several advantages to taking photos on campus, she also explains the not-so-worthy side of campus photography.
"When dealing with the business there are a lot to consider, between how much to charge, explaining the fees and having people who actually understand why things are priced the way they are."
"For now, I just do a basic rate." She explains.
"I charge $85.00 for 15 different poses and if the client likes a few more I may just give them the poses at no extra charge. Usually they can ask for more or less though. They get 2 to 3 dress changes depending on the shoot and once edited the photos are put on a c.d for them to print."
M.A Photography is one to definitely remember, if wanting to do a shoot for graduation or for a special occasion make sure to contact Rosebeth Akharamen for a booking! You can reach her through her facebook! Her website is underway!
Jocelyn Stephens
Investing in a D5100 Nikon camera in February, Jocelyn Stephens, 21, graphic design major from Mesquite, Texas is an on campus photographer with an ambitious drive that is un-like no other.
Owning a Nikon L100 previously, the interview went rather short and quick with her knowledge of photography and dealing with the SFA student body.
When asked on how has taking photos on campus has benefited her business, she quickly states, "It helps with the word of mouth," she continues, "This isn't a giant campus, so my clientele increases over time."
From taking professional graduation shoots to the residents of Nacogdoches, Jocelyn's photography skills and efficiency is well-known around town. Her cool shades of angles and clear vibrancy of each shot, steers her photography career into full-drive. But luckily, she states that photography isn't something she's planning to make a career out of.
"It's not something I'm aiming to make a career out of, but if it does happen, I am interested in fashion photography for magazines and even Victoria Secret fashion shows."
Having experience with Fashion N Motion past shows, Stephens knows quite a bit about taking fashion photography. This semester, she actually joined the show—her, a model.
"DSLR's requires the photographer to look through a viewing frame, while a point and shoot only requires you look at a screen while taking a shot. DSLRs aren't as compact as point-and-shoots." Knowing every bit about a camera, Stephen continues.
"This definitely is not my last camera purchase. I believe a true photographer should experience all realms of photography, including equipment. In the near future I want to purchase an external flash and light."
A photographer at JC Penny Portrait Studio, Stephens knows a bit about the studio life photography. Working with babies, marriage clients and most of the time children, she knows quite a bit of everything— very hands on.
Her rates depend on the type of shoot and location, prices start from $40 down to $300, depending on what you want. J. Cole Photography is one to put on the list of things to do if youre in the Nacogdoches area. In the process of building her website with her artwork and photography you can reach Stephens through her Facebook!


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Is paying someone an annual salary, as opposed to an hourly wage, a form of exploitation even if the work is identical? President Obama thinks it can be. On March 13, Obama issued an Executive Order directing the Department of Labor to draft a regulation to expand the eligibility of salaried workers on federal contracts to receive overtime pay. The threshold would rise from the current $455 a week to an estimated $970 a week; employees making less effectively would be converted to hourly status and paid at an overtime rate for work done beyond 40 hours in a given week. The president insists the issue is fairness. "Overtime is a pretty simple idea," he said at the White House ceremony. "If you have to work more, you should get paid more." Yet the issue isn't so simple. Indeed, the mandate may wind up reducing employee hours – and increasing employee lawsuits.
The new executive order should be seen in the larger context of an increased focus these past several months on economic inequality. The president and other top officials are pouring on the populism in decrying what they see as unacceptable gaps in household income and wealth. In a Washington speech last December, Obama stated: "The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe." The president's subsequent State of the Union Address on January 28 amplified those words. "Inequality has deepened," he told the joint session of Congress. "The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by, let alone get ahead. And too many still aren't working at all."
The president is in good company. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez believes unions are natural leaders in the battle to reduce inequality. At the AFL-CIO's quadrennial convention in Los Angeles last September, he declared: "Workers' right to join together and form a union to improve their lives remains essential to a thriving middle class, and together we must defend that right…Strong unions reduce inequality and build the middle class." Meanwhile, the highly influential Robert Reich, who had served as Labor Secretary during the first Clinton administration, is a central figure in a recent documentary film, "Inequality for All," which depicts our country as a playground for the super-wealthy lording it over everyone else. In an interview last September with far-Left media outlet Democracy Now!, promoting the film, Reich said, "Since the recovery, almost all of the gains have gone to the very, very top." He elaborated: "People who are in the top 1 percent are doing even better than they did before the Great Recession, better than they have done since 1928. Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping."
The administration is matching this sort of rhetoric with policy initiatives. President Obama on February 12 signed an executive order increasing the minimum wage of employees of federal contractors from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour, effective January 1, 2015. He also has urged Congress more than once to raise the overall federal minimum to $10.10 an hour. A week ago he signed another executive order requiring federal contractors to break down their compensation data by race and sex. Meanwhile, the president's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2015 would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) by doubling the maximum payment for childless workers and increasing the maximum income level at which the credit is phased out. The budget also would widen the eligible age range. All told, the proposed EITC revisions would create a larger credit for 7.7 million workers and make eligible for the first time another 5.8 million workers. These expansions would be on top of the temporary EITC and refundable Child Tax Credit enhancements in the 2009 federal stimulus law that benefited about 16 million families with 30 million children. To pay for this expansion, the administration wants carried-over interest income accruing to investment partnerships to be taxed as ordinary rather than as capital gains income.
The Obama order to expand eligibility for overtime pay for salaried employees of federal contractors, issued without prior announcement, fits in here. During the signing ceremony, the president complained that businesses, including those in the information technology industry, are classifying many types of employees as "professional" or "administrative," so as to exempt themselves from Labor Department Wage and Hour Division overtime requirements. In the process, many workers who put in well over the standard 40 hours a week are getting the shaft. The current overtime threshold for salaried workers (29 CFR, Part 541), last revised in 2004, is $455 a week, or $23,660 a year. Top White House economic adviser Betsey Stevenson declined to say what the new salary ceiling would be. Yet she did admit this much: "What we know right now is the threshold has been eroded by inflation, and there are 3.1 million people who, if the threshold had kept up just with inflation, would automatically be covered by overtime provision." In response, the Wall Street Journal developed its own estimate, based on data provided by the Washington, D.C. litigation firm of Fortney & Scott: $970 per week. That works out to $50,440 a year.
Supporters say the action is long overdue. "Due to years of neglect, one of the linchpins of the middle class, the overtime rules that establish the 40-hour workweek, have been eroded," remarked an unnamed White House official prior to the signing. "As a result, millions of salaried workers have been left without the protections of overtime or sometimes even the minimum wage." Organized labor is sounding the same note of discontent. "It is time to update those (overtime salary thresholds) levels and index them to prevent more and more workers from losing overtime protection every year," noted the AFL-CIO on its website.
Business groups counter that raising the overtime bar would depress future hiring. "The president's plan to increase overtime pay demonstrates another anti-business policy – coming on the heels of a proposal to increase the minimum wage, increase the minimum tipped wage, rising health care costs, as well as ever-growing, costly and unwieldy regulations," said Eric Reller, a spokesman for the National Federation of Independent Business. David French, senior vice president of government relations for the National Retail Federation, likewise said, "Just on the surface, this looks like an enormous new administrative burden." These and other trade associations have good reason to believe as they do. Obama's executive order, under the premise of distributing prosperity more fairly, may undermine it. There are several reasons why.
First, an expansion of overtime eligibility would give employers every incentive to reduce base salaries by converting positions from an annual to an hourly pay rate. In the process, the executive order, intentionally or not, would be a gift to plaintiff's attorneys who specialize in the fast-growing field of overtime lawsuits. Paul DeCamp, a lawyer with the Washington, D.C. regional office of Jackson Lewis and administrator of the U.S. Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division during President George W. Bush's second term, is strongly opposed to the new policy: "The result will be to convert a whole lot of salaried employees into hourly workers who punch a clock and have their time micromanaged by others…This would be the Affordable Care Act all over again, with employers cutting employee hours." Back in January 2006, for example, a group of salaried IBM employees in the company's California offices filed a federal lawsuit against the Armonk, N.Y.-based company (Rosenburg et al. v. IBM) on grounds they had been unfairly denied overtime pay. They had been earning on average $77,000 a year. The company settled the case that November for $65 million to be distributed to 32,000 current and former employees. After court approval in July 2007, IBM cut employee base pay by 15 percent by reclassifying salaried positions as hourly ones, so as to take into account future overtime claims.
Second, and related, more overtime eligibility means more lawsuits. Since 2000, the number of wage-and-hour lawsuits in the U.S. increased by 400 percent or more. And the most common issue in such cases is overtime back pay. Plaintiffs charge that employers, in seeking to squeeze extra work from their employees, are resorting to illegal tactics. They include: forcing employees to work off the clock; misclassifying jobs to make them exempt from overtime regulations; and forcing employees to use smart phones and other technology during their personal time so as to barrage them with work-related e-mails and text messages. While employers, no more than employees, have a right to breach contractual obligations, a growing number of these lawsuits have been motivated by a "come and get it" attitude pushed by the plaintiff's bar. The prospect of being hit with outsized judgments can be enough to motivate even major employers to settle.
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The Greater Puget Sound Youth Football League began its new season on Aug. 17, and with it came the optimism of a championship season for local squads. Both the Upper Tacoma Youth Association Tigers and the North East Tacoma Tigers showed some good things on both sides of the ball as they squared off in five back-to-back contests at Stadium Bowl, broken up by age group.
"This is our fourth year of running the (North East Tigers) program and we're growing rapidly with our five programs," said Martin Sanelli, who is the president of the North East Tigers. "We have 102 kids total on our five teams, which is up tremendously over the past couple of years."
The Upper Tacoma Youth Association Tigers – from the Hilltop area – is a young program in its second year, and coach Zeke Nelson likes his team's chances as the program develops. "We had some real growing pains last year," he said, "but our numbers are up significantly this year to go along with some really talented skill position players."
Those results showed early for UTYA in a 12-0 win in the fourth-grade game, as Emauri Riley and John Nelson scored touchdowns for the Tigers. North East came back in the fifth-grade game, with the help of Reid Shumpert's three touchdowns, for a win to even the score at one game apiece.
"Our current roster is made up of 85 percent of players who have played in North East football the last three years, and their football smarts at this age are pretty incredible," said fifth-grade coach Tony Shumpert. "We have high hopes of making the playoffs and going far, too."
While both Sanelli and Shumpert talk of the increase of numbers and talent on this year's teams, there's also another factor the kids can't help talking about – playing at historic Stadium Bowl. "They just can't get enough of the surroundings," Tony Shumpert said. "And adding to that is the fact that 75 percent of these kids we have will be playing with Stadium (High School) in the near future."
Reid Shumpert may be one such player, as his scoring ability on the day shows strong potential for the future.
"Their (UTYA) outside contain wasn't very good and we took full advantage of it," Reid Shumpert said. "One of the things that we want to get better at is getting all of our snaps off without penalties."
While continuity is a big part of any team's success, Sanelli talked about another important factor. "Our coaching staff has been together for three straight years, as we continue to implement new players and new coaching concepts into our system. We'll see how it works as the season plays itself out."
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The A&R Central Hornets and Parkland Raiders took their turns controlling the games at Lincoln Bowl on Aug. 17, as strong rushing performances and stout defenses led to impressive shutouts.
The second- and third-grade teams – a new addition to the GPSYFL this season in order to introduce the game at a younger age – traded scoring drives throughout, with the Hornets emerging with a 19-13 victory.
The fourth-grade Hornets continued that momentum, coming up with some big defensive stops in the first half and earning a 13-0 victory over the Raiders. The offensive star of the day was running back Joemil Bigham, who had runs of 35 and 58 yards on the day, tallied over 150 total rushing yards and helped clinch the win with a one-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter.
Dai'Shaun Nichols had gotten the Hornets on the board with a five-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter, moments after teammate Marquis Tremble came up with a tackle for loss on fourth down on the Raiders' 10-yard line. Tremble later added a key interception for his squad. Both squads struggled with turnovers in the first half, but it was key fourth-down stops inside the red zone that helped gain momentum for the Hornets early in the contest.
But the Raiders got revenge in a big way in the fifth-grade contest, cruising to a 39-0 victory behind three rushing touchdowns from quarterback Angel Sanchez III. Parkland got on the board on a seven-yard score from Jay Gray on fourth down early in the first, and Sanchez's 50-yard score on a sweep to the right made it 13-0 on the next drive. Sanchez added another short score in the second and Gray scored from 30 yards out to make it 25-0 at the half.
Hornets quarterback Joziah Nixon tried to keep his squad in the game with several nice runs in the third quarter, but the Raiders were too much, as Sanchez had a 39-yard score in the third quarter and C.J. Whitson, Jr. closed it out with a 15-yard score in the fourth.
The Raiders got a hard-fought 7-0 win over the White River Raptors – filling in for A&R Central – in the sixth-grade game, as Dennis Yevchev scored on a 78-yard reverse on Parkland's first play to provide the only score. That came after the Raiders recovered a fumble at their own 22-yard line on White River's opening drive. The Raiders' defense was key all game, as Jeremiah Noaese and Mateo Champion anchored a stout defensive line and Mitchell Skordal made key tackles at linebacker.
The seventh-grade Hornets later scored a 14-0 win over Parkland, as Elijah Smith-Johnson set the tone by racing for a 53-yard touchdown on A&R Central's first play. Smith-Johnson finished with 102 yards rushing, and quarterback Emanuel Brown added 75 rushing yards and a score to help lead the way. Jonoah Thomas and Isaiah Bradley controlled the interior for the Raiders' defense, coming up with key tackles for loss and limiting the Raiders to five first downs.
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Colloidal Clay
A customer of mine wants me to add colloidal clay around her foundation.
A local architect recommended it for drainage, then add dirt and top it off with sod.
Has anyone use this clay and what other terms are used to identify it and place and order?
No landscapers seem to know what I'm looking for.
Thanks, I'm getting desperate.....
i think what you are looking for is commonly reffered to as "select fill". It's fill dirt with a percentage of clay and is very compactable, often used around foundations
You can't ask the architect?
my first noob question: where can you buy this stuff in small amounts at a time?
yes, just make sure you backslope so water drains away from foundation
It depends. The lowest the wood of your wall can come to the soil is.... well, I forget. Is it 6" or 8"? More is better, anyway. If you're already at that level, I wouldn't just add more without a professionals (architect/engineer) approval, and checking with your building dept.
A colloid is a suspension. You can look up the exact definition of a colloid on Wikipedia. Clay is a family of minerals, consisting of several hundred different types. A colloidal clay is a clay which remains in suspension when agitated in water. This means that the clay is in the form of very fine particles which do not settle out of the water column.
A typical colloidal clay is bentonite, so named because it was originally mined in Benton Wyoming. It is essentially impervious, hence is used in waterproofing panels. It also holds water very well, but does not release it easily. Bentonite is used in kitty litter, well drilling fluid, waterproofing membranes, landfill covers, and many other applications, and can be purchased by the 50 lb bag at specialty stores that cater to drillers, or you can buy clay based kitty litter and take your chances on what you get.
Now as to why anyone would want to add such a product around their house, I have no idea. If added in sufficient quantity, it will make the soil effectively impervious, so water will run off rather than percolating downward. So far as I know, it will not improve the soil characteristics for growing plants. I have never seen it used for the purpose you suggest, but if the customer is convinced that they want it, well at least now you know what it is and where to get it.
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Do any of you have experience with the navico 8000 below decks, hydraulic autopilot?
I have one that I am experiencing some difficulty with. Hopefully, someone could help troubleshoot.
Firstly; I replaced the remote controller because the rubber button broke from age, forcing me to activate it by sticking my finger into the hole left by the rubber button and pressing a button on the circuitboard. The pilot worked flawlessly at this point. With the new controller in place, the pilot grabs the wheel when engaged but when I press the button to turn to port or starboard, the LED indicator light simply flashes but doesn't turn the wheel.
During all of this, I had engine work and had the engine out of the compartment. It's back and the wiring seems to be ok although I had disconnected a connector plug to the hydraulic pump. It's reconnected and secured and all of the other wiring looks intact.
I am stumped. I called Navico but the Navico that made this pilot was bought by Simrad which, in turn, was bought by Navico (not the same). There wasn't anyone to talk to who knew the product.
Now, I have replacement parts for everything. I have tried to replace the remote controller with no success. I could replace everything piece by piece but I was hoping for a suggestion about where to start. Anyone with some ideas?
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CNN co-anchor Don Lemon, during a brief report on Tuesday's Newsroom program about a pro-life measure on the ballot in South Dakota that would greatly restrict abortion, gave only the pro-choice side of the debate over the proposed law. He also oversimplified Barack Obama's stance on the abortion issue.
Lemon stated how the Great Plains state "is becoming a new focal point in the abortion debate" due to the measure, which is called Initiated Measure 11. He then introduced the sole sound bite from a Planned Parenthood official: "Opponents say it would be one of the most rigid and inflexible bans in the country. They worry about the impact it could have on Roe vs. Wade."
During the sound bite, Sarah Stoesz, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota argued, "Nowhere in America is abortion harder to access than in the state of South Dakota, and while South Dakota accounts for only 0.1 percent of abortions nationwide, it has a potentially disproportionate, powerful effect on public policy in our country, because of the attempts in South Dakota to create a vehicle to overturn Roe vs. Wade."
After reporting how "South Dakotans rejected a stricter law banning abortions in their state" in the 2006 election, Lemon devoted the second half of the report to an all-too-brief outline of the positions of Barack Obama and John McCain on "abortion rights" (as the graphic at right put it):
LEMON: The abortion issue isn't at the top of the list of voter concerns this year, but it's still a big emotional issue that matters to a lot of Americans. Here's where the two major presidential candidates stand on this issue.
Democrat Barack Obama is against any constitutional amendment to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Now, Republican John McCain says it must be overturned.
Obama disagrees with the Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. McCain supports the high court's decision.
Lemon omitted one key component to Obama's plank on abortion -- his extreme position during his time in the Illinois State Senate concerning a proposal which would have protected infants who were born alive after surviving abortion attempts. During four votes on the Illinois Born-Alive Infant Protection Act in 2001 and 2002, Obama voted against the legislation three times. He voted "present" the other time. CNN's Carol Costello omitted two of these votes by Obama during a report in July.
During that report, Costello repeated how Obama claimed at the time that "the Illinois Born-Alive Infant Protection Act would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child.' In other words, Obama says now it 'lacked the federal language clarifying the act would not be used to undermine Roe v. Wade.'" On Monday, the National Right-to-Life Committee released documentation that demonstrated that Obama had in fact voted against a Illinois state measure that had this "federal language" when it came before the health committee he chaired in 2003 (a detail that had gone largely unnoticed before). The NRLC release was picked up by Jill Stanek, a central figure to this issue, on her blog, and it spread like wildfire all over the conservative blogs. So far, only a fews mainstream media outlets, such as The Politico, have picked up on the story. One wonders when CNN will get around to mentioning these details.


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Ever since the last weekend's rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, one question has crystallized in the minds of many here: Why hadn't Edward Burkhardt, the chairman of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, shown up to face residents?
On Wednesday, they finally caught glimpse of him as an exceptional scene played out a few hundred metres from the crash site. Around 1 p.m., Mr. Burkhardt, who had arrived from Sherbrooke two hours earlier, emerged from an official accreditation centre where he attempted unsuccessfully to gain access to the crash site and was immediately swarmed by reporters.
In the chaotic encounter – with the chairman testily responding to shouted questions as residents heckled him – Mr. Burkhardt said many of the right things: He felt "devastated by what's occurred in this community." He pledged the company's resources to help those affected. "We're going to stand up to our responsibility," he said.
He stood behind the company's safety record but acknowledged, "We blew it all." And while he cited human error on the part of an engineer, he took full responsibility, explaining he spent the first days after the derailment dealing with crash-related issues from his Illinois office. "If I lived here, I would be very angry with the management of this company," he said. "We are making an abject apology to the people in this town."
Several onlookers were not satisfied. "Nothing he says will suffice for losing our town and our people," said a tearful Joanne Orichefqui, who was evacuated from her home. "How do we get back from this?"
Mr. Burkhardt delivered one message many residents did not want to hear: after the clean-up, "We'll…build track back and start to run trains through here again."
Ghislain Bolduc, the area's provincial political representative, acknowledged many residents would prefer if the track was ripped up, but suggested it would be impractical. "How else are we going to transport goods – in trucks through the town? Is it better? You have to think very seriously and take the time to do the proper thing for everyone."
Mr. Burkhardt offered frank responses to reporters' questions after touring the devastated town.
On whether hand brakes were set on the oil tanker cars:
"As a matter of fact, I'll say they weren't. "
On the train's engineer:
"I don't think he'll be back working for us."
On possible criminal charges:
"Let the chips fall where they may."
On whether the railway has any responsibility for the accident:
"We think we have plenty of responsibility here. Whether we have total responsibility has yet to be determined."
On why he waited five days after the accident before visiting Lac-Mégantic:
"I didn't think that there would be any use for me wandering around on the edge of town until the first responders had had an opportunity to do their work."
On whether the railway will apologize to Lac-Mégantic:
"We owe an abject apology to the people in this town."
On whether he's a compassionate person:
"I feel absolutely awful about this. I'm devastated by what's occurred in this community. I have never been involved in anything remotely approaching this in my whole life."
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Tim is asking people to send photos to put in a new lyric video for his song "One Of Those Nights".
It has to fit into the song's theme. It should be YOU having one of THOSE nights. Get it? And you should definitely keep it clean....
Tim set up an instagram page for you to post your pic.
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Nepal's "living goddess" passes school leaving exam
By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU (Reuters Life!) - Perhaps divine intervention helped.
A Nepali girl revered by many as a "living goddess" has become the first sitting deity to pass the high school leaving certificate exam, setting her on course for a career in banking.
Chanira Bajracharya, 15, called Kumari, was among nearly half a million children who took the exams in March. The results were declared late on Friday.
"She scored 80.12 percent marks in the exam," said Abha Awale, a teacher who gave private tuitions to the girl in her temple as she is not allowed to mingle with outsiders.
"This is a distinction (top grade)," she said.
Bajracharya has already scored high marks among devotees in the ancient town of Patan, south of Kathmandu, where she rides in decorated chariots 18 times year during Hindu and Buddhist festivals. She has been Kumari of Patan for nine years now.
Relatives and friends gathered outside Bajracharya's red brick house on Saturday to greet the Kumari with folded hands.
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Berlusconi takes on the Bench
Addressing the European People's Party congress in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi again strongly criticised Italian magistrates and the Constitutional Court, who, according to him, are politically influenced by the Left.
Mr Berlusconi chose the PPE platform and not the seat of some institution to launch a powerful attack, as a politician and not as the head of government, on the Italian Bench, which he describes as "a party of judges that wants to undermine the people's sovereignty".
That there is a serious political clash in Italy between judges and politicians as to how they think their relationship should be has been shown by a series of incidents which, put together, make up a mosaic of political behaviours, decisions and judgments, which exceed the limits of common sense and which involve, without exception, the whole institutional set-up.
In the last 20 years, Mr Berlusconi has been the subject of numerous criminal proceedings by the magistracy, none of which has been concluded with a definitive conviction. One should explain that, in some of these proceedings, Mr Berlusconi has taken advantage of laws approved by his parliamentary majority.
Mr Berlusconi is undoubtedly the one man in Italy who has been subjected to the greatest number of judicial proceedings, which range from the illegal financing of political parties, to drug trafficking, to mass slaughter and to embezzlement, corruption, false witness, support for Mafia activities, bribery of Customs officials and other crimes that are too numerous to mention.
All this seems to amount to a witch-hunt. Speaking at his party headquarters, Mr Berlusconi said: "Allow me to talk briefly about my country: Italy is the third largest economy in Europe, is governed by a strong and stable majority, a hard-working government and a super Prime Minister who enjoyed an approval rating of over 60 per cent after managing to solve the refuse disposal problem and of 68 per cent after the (Abruzzo) earthquake.
"Unfortunately, the Left has been attacking me by inventing falsehoods of all sorts against me but which, however, have made me stronger, because people say: 'My goodness, where do we find anyone as strong and tough-as-nails as Berlusconi?'
"Sovereignty in Italy today - and I do not think I am exaggerating - has passed from Parliament to the party of the judges. The Constitutional Court is no longer an institution that guarantees the citizen's rights but in Italy has become a political organ. The party of left-wing judges has turned to the Council of State, which is made up of 15 members, 11 of whom are left-wingers, and which repeals laws passed by Parliament. In effect, sovereignty has passed from Parliament to the party of judges."
The Association of Magistrates was quick to reply, stating in a brief note that: "Fortunately for everyone, Italian law and the Constitution in force provide for organs that guarantee and supervise the actions of any power or order, including the magistracy. Obviously, the Constitutional Court, as in any other country in the world which provides for it, judges the laws approved by parliamentary majorities of any political colour or orientation. And the Constitution, as any Civics handbook explains, places it among the organs guaranteeing the upholding of rights."
The language used is tough and hard-hitting and, undoubtedly, disproportionate but it gives a good idea of the clash that has to be seen in the light of the need to review the judicial system in Italy and its relationship with the Executive.
On Thursday too, the Chamber of Deputies, by 360 votes to 226 in a secret ballot, turned down a request for the arrest of the Undersecretary for the Economy, Nicola Cosentino, for complicity in Camorra (the Neapolitan Mafia) activities. The request was made by the court of Naples.
According to the Naples magistrates, Mr Cosentino's name had surfaced in the confessions of a businessman with ties to both the Camorra and to Forza Italia (Mr Berlusconi's former party), which, thanks to complicity and support of various kinds and at various levels, has allegedly "poisoned" an entire region, the Campania, for 20 long years, from 1987 to 2008.
The confessions were gathered by two journalists of the L'Espresso publishing house, part of the De Benedetti Group. The long battle between Carlo De Benedetti and Mr Berlusconi has been carried out between the two men's publishing houses without quarter. It had started with what has been described as the War of Segrate, a bitter judicial and financial clash that ended with a sentence, known as the Lodo Mondadori, where the judges allowed the Fininvest Group to take over the Mondadori publishing house.
Despite this judgment, things became more complicated when the editors and employees of some of the newspapers rebelled against their new owner. Giulio Andreotti, the Prime Minister at the time, intervened by calling the two parties and invited them to find an agreement. It was thus that La Repubblica, L'Espresso and some local newspapers and magazines reverted to De Benedetti's ownership while Panorama, Rete 4 and the rest of the Mondadori Group were retained by Fininvest, which also received a settlement of about €180 million.
Mr De Benedetti accused Mr Berlusconi of having bribed the judges of the Rome Tribunal in order to obtain a decision in his favour in the Lodo Mondadori case.
Mr Berlusconi was to be charged with corruption. However, the case was withdrawn after he became Prime Minister and this became the subject of an interminable dispute between the Milan court and the Prime Minister's office, which also led to controversial pronouncements by the Constitutional Court.
Then, on October 3 this year, the Milan Tribunal condemned Fininvest (Mr Berlusconi's holding company) to pay compensation amounting to some €750 million to Mr De Benedetti's CIR in damages for "missed opportunities". Four days later, the Constitutional Court declared as unconstitutional a law passed by Parliament, known as the Lodo Alfano, after the present Minister of Justice, which aimed to provide immunity from prosecution to the four highest official positions of the Republic: the President, the Prime Minister and the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate. This was in order to ensure the carrying out of their functions without undue interference.
In effect, this meant that Mr Berlusconi would not be obliged to undergo criminal proceedings in a court of law for the duration of his term. "After the Lodo Alfano was 'abrogated' by the Constitutional Court," Mr Berlusconi concluded, "the witch-hunt by certain magistrates has been resumed."
That the Constitutional Court is supposed to be an institution super partes was also contested in 1950 by the historical leader of the Communist Party, Palmiro Togliatti, who had cast doubt on the political neutrality of the members of the Constitutional Court and had mooted the idea that the judges should be directly elected by the people.
The aim of Mr Berlusconi's attack on the Constitutional Court and on the magistrates in Bonn seems to be to defend the actions of his government, which is subject to periodic attacks and attempts at delegitimisation which, according to him, are baseless, made by the Italian opposition in the European Parliament.
Reading the reports and gossip of a political nature one seems to be watching a comedy of equivocation and deceit in Italy, which has barely managed to close the chapter opened some years ago by a pool of magistrates in Milan that started with a judicial inquiry - nicknamed Mani Pulite by the press - and carried out at the national level in Italy during the 1990s.
From the findings, a perturbing picture emerged of widespread corruption, illegal financing of parties at the highest levels of the political and business world known as Tangentopoli. Those involved included ministers, MPs, senators, businessmen, even former prime ministers. A disgraceful campaign of delegitimisation based on suspicions rather than on hard evidence swept away all the parties in government, left the then Communist Party virtually intact, produced Umberto Bossi (leader of the Northern League) and did not touch the Movimento Sociale of Gianfranco Fini, which forms part of the governing coalition.
The Communist Party, after having changed its name and symbol no fewer than five times, has become an integral part of the Partito Democratico, together with L'Italia dei Valori, a party founded by Antonio Di Pietro, the former magistrate from the pool of Mani Pulite. They are now the staunchest defenders of the judges, the Constitutional Court and the current institutional set-up of the Italian state and they are openly supported by the newspapers of the De Benedetti Group.
"In Italy, something is happening which we need to see to: sovereignty, according to the Constitution, belongs to the people", Mr Berlusconi insisted in Bonn.
Indeed, Mr Berlusconi's speech in Bonn was not a sudden outburst by the Italian Prime Minister, who has been expressing these beliefs for some time, and who moves sure-footedly in the grounds of political amorality, far indeed from the immorality of gossip and quite different from the moralistic stance of a part of Italian public opinion, which is still the victim of a series of illusions such as the untouchability of the Constitutional Court, an upright magistracy above the parties and a political class of crystal-clear activity.
When Mr Berlusconi left the PPE headquarters he told someone who asked him for an explanation: "There is nothing to explain, I am sick and tired of hypocrisy, that's all..."
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Jeff Midkiff: Mandolin Concerto "From the Blue Ridge"
"Wow, really terrific— damned impressive!! Gorgeous middle movement. Bravo Jeff,
a real accomplishment both pragmatically
and artistically."
David Royko, Chicago Tribune
"...toe-tapping...spiritual...colorfully scored...fun..."
—Michael Butterman, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra conductor
The piece directly reflects Midkiff's roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains
and his fondness for the bluegrass music tradition, with a touch of swing and
jazz in the mix. Not that this suggests "Blue Ridge" is all fast mandolin pickin' because it isn't. In fact, it's a work that cleverly blends a sophisticated
orchestral foundation with mandolin playing suitable for classically-oriented
lines as well as those more down-home. The final movement is full of
foot-stomping, toe-tapping rhythms and was just great fun to hear.
—John Shulson, Virginia Gazette, January 19, 2013
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Partners in Time, Jeff's debut solo recording
With its deft, thoughtful blend of classical, bluegrass, jazz and swing influences, Partners In Time is an outstanding debut by a musician who feels comfortable in more than one setting—musically and personally.


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Finding a case that has true style coupled with functionality these days is not easy. Twelvesouth's BookBook case for iPhone 5, however, takes these qualities and puts them all into a wonderful, hand-made work of art. The case features genuine leather and gives the user a solution for holding their iPhone 5 and wallet contents all in one package.
There are 4 different slots for credit cards, IDs, library passes, or other credit card-shaped objects. The front-most slot is intended for an ID, such as a driver's license, as it includes a transparent plastic overlay so you can see the ID through the slot. There is also a hole in the center to make it easy to push your ID out of the slot if you need to get it out of the BookBook case. Behind all of the card slots, there is a massive pocket where you can hold items such as money, receipts, and other thin items you might carry around in your wallet.
The actual iPhone snaps into a snap-on shell on the right side of the BookBook. It has a suede-like feel to it, however it's as hard as any plastic snap-on case. It holds onto your iPhone very tight so you never have to worry about it falling out. You can also see that no part of the case covers the front of the iPhone (unless you close the BookBook), so you have 100% access to the touch screen, home button, front-facing camera, and front-facing speaker.
As far as your iPhone's volume controls are concerned, the BookBook case gives you complete access to the volume up and volume down buttons, and the ringer/silent switch is also easily accessible. It's nice how there is no part of the case covering this area at all, like in some cases where the volume buttons are covered and the switch is shown through a small hole in the case, because you don't have to have long fingernails to get to the switch.
The iPhone's power button is easily accessible from the top of the BookBook case as well:
Users will also find that the unobtrusive bottom of the BookBook case makes just about all of your accessories compatible. We had no problem getting any of our speakers or headphones to plug into the headphone jack, and the lightning connector is as open as can be. You have full access to the bottom speaker and microphone thanks to this open design as well, which helps with keeping sound crisp and clear.
The open edge of the BookBook case from the side (no access to SIM):
The camera also has a roomy space to shine through the case. There is a large hole that accommodates not only the lens, but also the rear-facing microphone and LED flash, so there are no issues getting the perfect picture when you need your camera most.
The binding of the BookBook case looks just like an old library book. It says "Vol V" because it's for the iPhone 5. It comes out of the box with a well-worn appearance, which gives it the aged and stylish look. It's not actually worn, as these are just coloring effects. You can, however, wear it with use to get a more realistic well-worn appearance, and Twelvesouth applauds well-worn BookBook cases, as a slip of paper within the box states:
Thanks to the soft interior, the rear of the iPhone is well protected. The snap-on shell in the BookBook protects the aluminum edges of the iPhone, and the folding cover protects the front of the iPhone. The credit cards will not rub on the iPhone's display thanks to the design of the BookBook.Scuffs and wrinkles? Great. Scratches and stains on your Book Book? Congrats! In fact, we actually like BookBook the older and more weathered it looks. Our advice on cleaning your BookBook for iPhone? Don't!
The are only two major disadvantages to the BookBook – one being that the soft interior collects lint easily (especially pocket lint), and not really a disadvantage to the BookBook, but mostly wallet cases in general, if you leave your BookBook behind somewhere by mistake, you will lose not only your iPhone, but your credit cards and IDs as well (so be careful with it!)
BookBook for iPhone 5 is not heavy, isn't made cheap, and it adds some style to your iPhone. If you've been looking into wallet cases for your iPhone 5, this case is the way to go. The BookBook for iPhone 5 retails for $59.99 on Twelvesouth's Web site and you can get one in either Classic Black or Vintage Brown. Twelvesouth also makes an iPhone 4/4S version of the case.
Due to the case being hand-made out of premium materials, feeling good in your hand, offering great protection to the iPhone, and doubling as a wallet to get that lump out of your back pocket, we're giving the BookBook for iPhone 5 four out of five leaves. Four, and not five, because it's a lint magnet.


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The evolved America East Conference brand represents the culmination of an almost yearlong examination of the conference's position within the collegiate sports landscape. "Building The Complete Student Athlete" is the conference's new tagline and communicates the America East's commitment to championing the development of student athletes who excel both academically and athletically.
"The new America East brand is far more than just a logo or tagline. The brand captures the essence of our collective institutional values regarding athletics and what is most important...the student-athlete experience. Our new mark and new colors usher in a new era for the conference, built on the outstanding tradition of the past, but elevating us in a new direction for the future."
The America East Conference brand is built on the 3 pillars of the complete student athlete. These are - Academic Achievement, Leadership On and Off the Field and Athletic Excellence.


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Iran presents proposals as West ups nuclear pressure
By Fredrik Dahl and Reza Derakhshi
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran handed a package of proposals to world powers on Wednesday, as it came under renewed Western pressure to swiftly engage in "meaningful" talks to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program.
Tehran says its proposals address "various global issues" and represent a "new opportunity for talks and cooperation." But it was not clear what the proposals were and whether they would be enough to avert the threat of further sanctions on Iran.
The United States voiced hope that Iran's proposals would be constructive and said it intended to study them carefully.
"We hope that what is contained in that response is a serious, substantive and constructive response to the ... proposal," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told reporters after a meeting of the U.N. Security Council.
"We will study the content carefully."
Hours before the package was handed to representatives of world powers in Iran, the United States said the Islamic Republic was moving closer to being able to make atomic bombs by stockpiling enriched uranium.
"We have serious concerns that Iran is deliberately attempting, at a minimum, to preserve a nuclear weapons option," U.S. envoy Glyn Davies told a meeting of the 35-nation governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
"Iran is now either very near or in possession already of sufficient low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon if the decision were made to further enrich it to weapons-grade," Davies said at the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog body. Continued...


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Hot and Sexy Pakistani Model Sunita Marshal Wallpapers, Pics and Biography
Sunita Marshal was introduced into the modeling carrier by her aunt. Then after make her good name in the modeling world she stepped into the world of acting. Now she is doing her best in the fields by maintaining both of them at one time, in a nice way.
She expressed her point of views in one T.V show about model turns actress that one should be talented enough for doing good acting other than just beautiful looks. This might be the reason of her success, as she has both acting and modeling guts. She also expressed that in order to be a renowned and successful model, I never care for budget. If someone, especially from my friends offered me a good platform to work in the modeling field particularly, then I never refused.
This shy but emotional young lady easily wins the heart of people by her attractive personality and gorgeous smile. She is not party person at all and don't like jokes but even then she makes party, a party when entered. She is a polite person and knows very well where to be patient. This patience in her carrier makes her a professional model.
In modeling she has worked with so many fashion stylists and learned a lot. Her performances on the ramps, fashion shoots and on the acting platforms as well proves her learning about her work & experience.
Marshall was born in Lahore, Pakistan. Marshall was introduced into the modeling world by her aunt, who runs a famous beauty salon in Lahore. She made her first appearance in a Garnier Fructis commercial. After doing a few more commercials for hair products such as Pantene, Head and Shoulders and Kuene, Suneeta disappeared from the world of television commercials.
Marshall made a come back as the Gul Ahmed new girl. Suneeta Marshall was on every Gul Ahmed billboard and in every Gul Ahmed spread in all the magazines. This was enough for people to notice this new up and coming model who was before only known as the Fructis girl. After her contract ended with Gul Ahmed, Suneeta decided to work with big fashion designers such as Deepak Perwani, HSY, Bunto Kazmi and Nilofer Shahid.
It really was not until Marhsall worked for Bunto Kazmi, that she received true fame. Suneeta was chosen by Bunto Kazmi to model her clothes in 2000 for a Milan fashion show. For the first time Suneeta received international fame and recognition and that did wonders for her. After a little international exposure, Suneeta was brave enough to muster up the strength and submit her portfolio directly to fashion designers such as Dior and Gucci.
Suneeta landed the job with Dior right away but it was not until a little while that Suneeta started working for Gucci as well. Suneeta opened Dior's show in Karachi and then in Dubai, London, Paris and Moscow.
Suneeta Marshall's fame was further increased when she decided to star in Abaraul Haq's music video Preeto (Pretty). After her first success Suneeta decided to star in the music video for the Shehzad Roy song "Jana". Suneeta also decided to try her hand at acting and started off by doing a television movie called Tere Bina (without you) in which she played a young spoiled girl who elopes with her boyfriend and then later learns about the responsibilities of marriage. After that Suneeta Marshall got to play the lead in the very successful television drama Malika in which she plays a Fashion Model/Actress who gets ahead of her friend in show business.
Marshall has worked with countless famous Pakistani designers and has had contracts with many big companies such as LUX, Revlon, Jazz, Mobilink, and Sunsilk. Suneeta has also been offered to act in Indian Films but since most Indian Films are musicals, Suneeta turned them down and in an interview on the famous talk show Bushra Bushra, she revealed that she is interested in doing more serious work.
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Dublin Summer {The best Irish summer in 18 years}
Summer 2013 was the nicest summer in Ireland in 18 year. 18 years! It was newsworthy, people were sweltering in the heat, swimming in the sea and the canals and causing traffic jams on the roads to the beaches. People were reminiscing about their memories from the Summer of '95, and tweeting about how they would tell their future grandkids about the summer of 2013.
You may wonder what an Irish Summer so memorable is like. Well, we're talking about warm weather - a few consecutive weeks in the upper 60's, a few days in the low 70's and maybe 1 day around 75. And just over 2 full weeks without rain, not once. If you had experienced Summer 2012, as we did (or presumably any other summer between 95' and '13), you would know this was nothing short of a miracle.
|For perspective, 23°C = 73°F
To be fair, the days around these really warm days were also pretty nice, we saw a lot of sun in Ireland over the summer and it was a completely different country. Everyone was outside every minute possible, enjoying every ray of sun. And we did the same.
|It's shocking that an island that rains so much can fear
a drought with 16 days without rain!
|Abby & Brandon, before they moved to Sydney!
|Rose on a rooftop patio
|The sun brings out the biggest smiles
The next nice day we had, Brian and I decided to get on our bikes and go to the coast. We only lived a few miles from the eastern coast, and we planned to just go there, but once we got there, we decided to keep going south towards the town Dun Laoghaire (pronounced: Done Leary). It was probably 7 miles by bike, and we found a nice beach to hang out at for a while before heading to the market in town for lunch.
|Biking along the coast
|First time in the Irish Sea!
We only got our feet in, although there were tons of swimmers
|At this point, I thought this might be as far into the Sea as I would ever get.
|And then the tide came in, and we headed off to lunch
|Where are we again? Is this sun I feel?
|And then this happened...a horse & cart came cruising through the park
Yes, we are in Ireland
|And off we went again
|We started the day warming up on a nice bluff, looking away from the crowds on the beach.
It was nice out, but it definitely wasn't at or over 75°F
|Look at the swarms of people enjoying the weather.
This was the view opposite of our nice bluff
|Then, we got hungry for lunch, so we biked down to the market.
I'm usually happy to stand in line for and ice cream, but today the line was waaaaaaay too long.
|After lunch, we decided to go even further south, and found the famous "Forty Foot" swimming area
|Pre Swim
This was it, we were going in. Again, we find a bluff away from the crowds to warm up a bit before the swim. This is also where I stopped taking the photos, but I promise it's all true. After we warm up, we head down the bluff to a staircase going into the water. Loads of people were just walking in and taking off for a swim. Young people, old people, you name it. We stepped onto the first step and the water was COLD. Freezing. Out I went. It took Brian about a minute before he jumped and took the plunge. He was maybe in the water for 30 seconds before he swam back to the stairs and got out. Done. It was cold.
I was determined to get in, but it was seriously cold. I couldn't even get up to my knees. There was a girl, no more than 2 years old, who was almost all the way in with her dad. Old women would just walk right in and swim away. And what really set me over the edge, was the 10 year old girl who was jumping in and out, and according to her, the stair case to the left was warmer. Thanks, little girl, I don't need warmer. It probably took me 20 minutes before I finally eased in and took a few strokes into the sea (head above the water, wet hair would not have been fun) and a few strokes back. It was icy cold. Shockingly cold, like can't move your arms or legs cold. I was out in about 10 seconds, but I did it! And I proudly reported to all my colleagues that I swam in the Irish Sea.
|Post swim
|We passed this place on our way out. It was an area of shallow, warm water.
I could have done this, no problem.
|Biking up to Howth
|Today's beach
|View on the Howth Head Hike - there is a lighthouse on the tip but it's hard to see in the photo
|Enjoying the view
|Flowers, boats and the sea
|walking along the trail
|Rest stop
|blue sea and sky
|obviously my idea
|After an afternoon of biking and hiking, we came home and Brian BBQ'ed a delicious dinner
|Yum - chicken, aubergine (eggplant to us) and mushrooms
|And we still had enough energy to go to our favorite live Trad session at the Stag's Tail.
These guys play every Friday & Saturday night, and have been for years.
|Just walking into the gardens
|Sun maks him happy enough to smell the flowers
|selfie with the fowers
|garden gates
|looking back at the estate
|beautiful views
|The patio of the Estate
|It was beautiful
|parting shot
|Ha'penny Bridge


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China Glaze Eyes Like Sapphires and Girly Bits ApparitionSunday, October 21, 2012
Good afternoon, dear readers! :D
I hope that everyone has been having a wonderful weekend. :)
Today I wanted to show you a beautiful polish that my Mom picked up for me a little while ago when we went dusty hunting (by accident!): China Glaze Eyes Like Sapphires.
This gorgeous shiny deep blue has tiny silver sparkles in it, and is so beautiful:
I love it!! :D But, to make my manicure pop even more, I put some Girly Bits Apparition over top, and this is how it turned out:
Isn't that such a lovely combination? :D Eeeee so pretty!!! XD
I hope that everyone has an amazing day!! :D
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*u* whoaaaa. I love those tiny silver sparkles! what a beautiful polish. I think I actually like it better on its own!ReplyDelete
perfect layering!ReplyDelete
Starry night skies =DReplyDelete
Yeah you are right, so pretty :)ReplyDelete
Oh this is pretty! You always have lovely bluesReplyDelete
Love it solo and with the sparkles, the later of which instantly creates the look of a gorgeous, star filled summer sky.ReplyDelete
♥ Jessica
These remind me of winter and snow, soo pretty!ReplyDelete
SO gorgeous!ReplyDelete
It's a really lovely layering :)ReplyDelete
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Just in case Christmas isn't sparkly enough, Dancing On Ice will be bringing all sorts of glittery fun to our screens from January 6 2013.
That's right, Olympic skating superstars Torville and Dean will once again drag 12 celebrity contestants up onto the ice in an attempt to teach them to shuffle their feet to a tune, with those shuffles turning into steps, and those steps turning into leaps.
Following in the footsteps of previous winners Matthew Wolfenden, Sam Attwater, Hayley Tamaddon, Ray Quinn, Suzanne Shaw, Kyran Bracken and Gaynor Faye (yeah, it really has been on for that long), this year's celebrity line up is actually pretty impressive, with Pamela Anderson, Lauren Goodger and Shayne Ward among those on the official line up.
With Jason Gardiner back on the judging panel (laters, Louis), the 2013 bunch will have to be extra careful as they kick off in the first live show - because the former bald man has promised to be meaner than ever.
So who will the lucky contestants be? See below!
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson is stepping out of her beach wear and into costume (although both will be equally tight and revealing).
From soft, warm, golden sand to cold, hard, unforgiving ice, the 45 year old Canadian actress, who was most famously known for her role in Baywatch, has been known to try her hand at a few things in her time: acting, modelling, producing and writing (with varying degrees of success).
So she's got the ability to successfully try new things, but how will she fare on the ice?
When the question was asked of how many times she'd fallen over on her first day her answer was "none", but we reckon that's a fib.
Pamela will be dancing with Matt Evers who apparently she'd choose as her dance partner over all other possible celebrity partners.
"I don't like celebrities" she insists, despite being a massive celebrity.
And when asked about her worst fear for the live shows she didn't have a bad word to say: "I am actually excited to be taking part".
We hope she knows what she's getting herself into. And we can't WAIT to see how this all pans out.
Anthea Turner
We know. We feel as if Anthea Turner has been on DOI before too.
The 52 year-old television presenter is the star of the BBC series "Perfect Housewife" (which doesn't exist so it was a pretty silly show).
She was also the 19th presenter of BBC One's Blue Peter for two years - a whole 20 years ago.
Dancing with Andrew Buchanan, Anthea Turner admits that she has had her fair share of bumps and bruises when she first stepped out onto the ice: "I have got a massive one on my bum and some on my legs from the lifts!"
Although she did divulge her secret to avoiding those nasty bruises: "Skate on the safe side so to speak."
No - that means nothing to us either. For Anthea Turner, her fears are realising that she's in a competition, (something tells us that this year the celebrities didn't read the information booklet about what this show was about: a competition with celebrities. It's a bit like Helen Flanagan entering I'm a Celebrity all over again isn't it?)
The presenter decided that her ideal celebrity dance partner would be sportsman Gareth Thomas: "Someone who can make sure that I don't fall".
Gareth Thomas
Unfortunately Anthea, Gareth is already taken.
That's right, the retired welsh rugby player, Gareth Thomas will be swapping scrums for skates this season with partner Robin Johnstone.
Most likely hitting the ice like a bag of bricks, the sportsman reckons that he's fallen over every day, sometimes more than once.
The amount of bruises are endless. His worry though is: "The pressure. I don't want to let my skating partner down."
And we're sorry to say, Anthea, that Gareth's dream skating partner would apparently be Louie Spence.
Samia Ghadi
Coronation Street actress Samia Ghadi (aka hairdresser Maria Connor) will be ice dancing with Sylvain Longchambon. Apparently.
Samia is another contestant who had some beginners' luck in not falling on her face for four weeks! But after that came "the big one".
She said: "My hips are so painful that if I touch them with the tip of my finger, it hurts."
Samia's worst fear for the live shows is facing the judges who put the fear of God into every contestant to ever grace (we use the term loosely) the ice.
When questioned about her dream celebrity dance partner, Samia decided to keep it within the Coronation street family and said she would opt for co-star Chris Fountain (who was also on DOI) "Because he is my mate and he is brilliant at skating!"
Matt Lapinska
Matt Lapinskas (that's Eastender lad Anthony Moon to most of us) is set to take to the ice this year with Brianne Delcourt.
Having encountered a few bumps and bruises from the ice, the 23 year old said early on: "I fell over and cracked my hip bone into the ice." Ouch Matt!
His fear for the shows is that something will go wrong or his costumer splitting open. We're pretty sure we're all hoping that's what will happen!
And Matt is another contestant whose ideal celebrity skating partner would be someone from within the soap family, in more ways than one: "Tony Discipline who plays my brother, Tyler Moon, in EastEnders. We could do Blade Runners together, which would be fun".
Beth Tweddle
It wouldn't be a celebrity reality show without having an Olympic gymnast thrown into the mix these days!
Beth Tweddle competed in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics as a British artistic gymnast.
The 27 year old is in an ideal state to compete - but how will she do in transferring her competitive skills from a beam onto a sheet of ice? Well, you'll have to wait and see, silly.
Skating with Dan Whiston, Beth reckons she fell over a total of four times on her first debut with the ice.
Speaking of bruises, she said: "I have got a big one down my leg and a couple on my elbows."
Having had so much good luck this year with the Olympics (taking home the bronze medal on the uneven bars event,) Beth's biggest fear for the live shows is that she'll be the first celebrity to get voted off.
Our advice? Gun for a wardrobe malfunction in the first round and you'll be fine.
Luke Campbell
As if one Olympic medallist wasn't enough!
Presenting Luke Campbell, an amateur boxer who took home the gold medal in the 2012 Olympics bantamweight division.
Despite having achieved this by the age of 25, the amateur boxer still fears not being able to perform on the day of the live shows when he dances with skating partner Jenna Harrison.
Luke learnt that it doesn't matter how strong you are, the ice is always stronger!
He had a fair few battles with the ice - and lost. For an ideal skating partner, the 2012 champion said he would like US boxer, Oscar De La Hoya. Nice choice!
Shayne Ward
Whatever happened to that X Factor winner from the second series? Shayne Ward? Remember him? High voice? Wants you to hang up?
Well he's back in our lives next year with the Dancing on Ice team.
The now 28 year old will be skating away with Maria Filippov however he'd most like to skate away in the arms of Sir Tom Jones!
Having avoided the trips and tumbles when first hitting the ice (but all good things must come to an end) the singer couldn't avoid that first awful plummet or those bruises for long.
He said: "I have got hairy legs and so they are quite well hidden. If I shaved them, I would probably have about 100!" Don't do that please.
Lauren Goodger
Ah yes - every year there's one celeb who signs up for the fake tan benefits alone and this time around it's Lauren Goodger.
The Only Way Is Essex star is likely to break some sort of orange-based world record on the ice in 2013, skating with Michael Zenezini (but would most like to have Channing Tatum as her dream celebrity partner- who wouldn't?).
Lauren avoided falling over on the ice when she first took to it - although the rink is a cruel mistress and she wasn't able to avoid getting acquainted with the floor for long with one nasty fall: "I have luckily only managed to fall over a couple of times since."
Another celebrity most dreading the judges, the cameras, everyone watching and the pressure, it's safe to say Lauren is going to be dead nervous.
Joe Pasquale
It'll be Essex versus Essex this year as British (from Essex, otherwise that wouldn't have worked) comedian Joe Pasquale, 51, is set to step out onto the ice with his skating partner Vicky Ogden.
One of the older contestants in the competition, Pasquale hasn't been able to escape the cold shoulder of the ice.
How many times did you fall over in your first session Joe? "30 times – I was on the rink for 30 minutes and I fell over once every minute."
The unfortunate funnyman reckons he smells of deep heat most nights from the bruises he's acquired over the practices.
However he appears to be feeling the fear and doing it anyway. But what is he scared of? "Nothing because I like doing things that scares me – and skating does."
Baroness King of Bow Oona King
I'm a Celebrity and Strictly are doing it and now so are DOI! Baroness King of Bow Oona King is a 45 year old Labour politician - as well as the Chief Diversity Officer for Channel 4.
She's set to be skating with Mark Henretty. It sounds like she's the luckiest of all the competitors, as when she discussed how many times she had fallen over, she said: "None as thankfully I have barely fallen over at all because I have had one or two men to catch me!"
She doesn't even have a single bruise! The politician and self proclaimed feminist says the choreography is the area that she fears the most.
Keith Chegwin
And finally, TV presenter and actor Keith Chegwin has entered the competition this year in a bid to become a 'skating sensation'.
At 55 years old, he claims to have only fallen over once and picked up a single bruise. He has very tired legs though.
Fearing that he'll be put in a spandex costume, Keith will be dancing with Olga Sharutenko - but says his dream celebrity skating partner would in fact be contestant Joe Pasquale!
Which is odd, because we're always forgetting that those two are actually different people.
So there you have it! This year's official Dancing On Ice line up. What are we most looking forward to? Pamela, Pamela, Pamela and Pamela boobs.