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Roasted Garlic Cheese Baked Spaghetti (Crazy Cooking Challenge)
Another month of Crazy Cooking Challenge hosted by Mom's Crazy Cooking!
I feel like we JUST did the Chocolate Cake Challenge, which was so much fun.
This month the Challenge is Spaghetti and Red Sauce.
What I've made for it is one of my families favorite meals. This is easy and cheap to make! Your kids will gobble it up I promise!!
Roasted Garlic Cheesy Baked Spaghetti
1 box of spaghetti pasta (or other pasta if you'd like)
1 large jar of your favorite tomato sauce or 2 regular size jars (there are times I do not feel like making mine from scratch!)
1 16 oz container of ricotta cheese
1 bulb of roasted garlic
1 cup of grated Parmesan ( sounds like allot I know!)
Fresh Mozzarella
2 roma tomatoes sliced thin
Boil pasta according to box directions. Strain and mix with sauce, and ricotta.
Mash up your garlic into a paste, mix that in with the pasta as well have half of your grated parm cheese.
Pour into a casserole dish.
Top with slices of fresh mozzarella (In my picture I did not use it.. we were out :( but I normally always top with it!)
Top mozzarella with slices of tomatoes, and grated parmesan cheese.
Bake at 400 for for 20 minutes.
Dish up and enjoy!
Your kids will love it I promise =)
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Your opening photo is killing me, killing me!!! Crazy good.ReplyDelete
I hope you'll stop by and visit my CCC - Spaghetti Pie
Looks delicious and I love the addition of roasted garlic.ReplyDelete
I love that it has ricotta!ReplyDelete
That looks gorgeous and delicious :) I can't wait to try it out!ReplyDelete
Stopping by from CCC
Yuuummmm! That looks so good!! I love pasta, and any twist on it is good to me!! Love the tomatoes on topReplyDelete
Ohhh, bet that would be great made ahead & reheated after work!ReplyDelete
I love the casserole idea and the fresh tomatoes roasted on top is brilliant. I want to eat your photos.ReplyDelete
If you haven't already, I'd love for you to check out my CCC entry: Tomato Sauce with Onion & Butter.
Cook Lisa Cook
oh my goodness. the first photo is stunning! makes me grab a spoon and dig in!ReplyDelete
I adore the fresh tomatoes on top!!!ReplyDelete
I hope you had as muc fun this month as I did!
This looks so good! I love the tomatoes that are on top. Stopping by from CCC#61.ReplyDelete
Isn't baked pasta the best?! I love your addition of garlic- this sounds so yummy!ReplyDelete
You had me at Roasted Garlic--yum! I've never made a baked spaghetti but after looking through all these recipes, I think it's a must :)ReplyDelete
Your photo is amazing and I love those tomatoes on top! :-0)ReplyDelete
Roasted Garlic - NOM NOM NOMReplyDelete
I love baked spaghetti and I'm totally drooling over the dish in your featured picture! YUM
I swear roasted garlic = crack! If this tastes half as good as your pictures make it look, it is to die for. Can't wait to try it in my kitchen. Swing by and checkout my http://www.pinkepost.com/2012/03/boldly-sharing-for-next-generation.html at #70.ReplyDelete
This looks gorgeous!! Love the tomatoes on top. And I love your polka dot baking dish!ReplyDelete
Tracey @ The Kitchen is My Playground (CCC #15)
I just made this dish for dinner with some added ground beef and mushrooms. Huge hit! Thanks for the recipe!ReplyDelete
Delicious! Love the way the tomatoes are all roasted on the top.ReplyDelete
Jen #19
Looks so yummy!ReplyDelete
I was #7 Have a Happy Friday :)
Your photos look great, and so does this dish! Stopping by from the Challenge!ReplyDelete
Your pictures are very tempting!!! Anything with garlic works for me.ReplyDelete
Hi CarrieReplyDelete
What brand of Tomato Sauce did you use in this recipe. What size do you consider a large size.Replies
I use my mom's jarred sauce. It's a 24 oz jar. Use your favorite sauce :)Delete
Do you mean spaghetti sauce when you say tomato sauce? Tomato sauce doesn't usually have the seasonings in it like spaghetti sauce does. Just wondering. Sounds and looks so delish! :-)ReplyDelete
Hello Bakeaholic Mama. Thanks for the recipe. I'm making this now - looks delicious. I don't know what size box of spagetti I need to use? Don't expect to hear back from you in the next half hour so I'm going to use a 375 gram box (I'm in Canada). If anyone knows if this is correct or in correct please reply. Thanks so much!ReplyDelete


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04 November 2013
Matrimonial Monday: Georgia Marriage Records
If you dig a little deeper, often visiting a local courthouse, you might find Marriage Bonds as well. These are often "loose" records and are likely to have been microfilmed, however they don't provide information on the actual marriage and are thus not as likely to be found online.
Marriage Bonds represent a groom's intent to marry and his promise to pay a penalty if he backs out or it's discovered that he is not eligible to marry. The best thing about the marriage bond is that it is co-signed by another person, often a relative of the bride. Their name might help uncover the bride's family. These bonds are not proof that a marriage occurred however, so you should rely on the Marriage Books for real evidence.
Images: Top: Marriage License of George Craft and Effie Powell, recorded in "Elbert County Marriage Book, 1882 - 1893." Bottom: Marriage Bond of Moses Craft and Nancy Hudson, stored in Elbert County, "Marriages box M1 1802-1808."
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Fertility Rituals
Marriage is one of the biggest fertility rituals Known in Indian culture. When two people get married. they are said to enter grihasta ashram where they are expected to bear children. satify their sexual urge, earn money and follow religious practices. Hindu marriages profess the idea of coming together of the energies and paving way to a new creation.
Offering of Grains
Throughout India, one thing that remains common to all communities is offring of grains in wedding ceremony. Mostly rice, puffed rice or whole grains, these grains are fed to the sacred fire in different ceremonies.
Importance of Shiva's Bael leaves
Holy Bael leaves are proffered in several ceremonies before the wedding and after it. In many communities in india, before the wedding day arrives, Bael leaves are placed in earthen pots which are topped with different kinds of cereals. After the wedding, the sprouted seedlings are then released in a flowing river or a pool. This ritual is performed to invoke blessings of Lord Shiva upon the married couple and pray for their progeny.
Vishnu's pious Lotus
As per mythology, at the time of creation of the universe, while lord Vishnu was pondering over the creation of mankind, a pious lotus rose out of his navel. On that lotus was seated Lord Brahma who paved way to the creation and illumination of the universe. Thus, lotus remains symbolic of procreation, birth and fertility. It is Therefore, offered during wedding puja to the gods to confer potency upon the couple. Also, At the time of a Hindu wedding, the bride and the groom are given the stature of Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Vishnu because they represent the eternal companionship and exemplify how a relationship between husband and wife should be.
Nose ring
Usually seen as a piece of accessory, almost all brides sport nose ring on their wedding day. In some communities, girls are told to get their nose pierced before they tie the knot.
Sacred coconut rituals
Across India, since time immemorial coconut has enjoyed its association with human fertility in a sacrosanct manner. In Gujarat, there is a ritual of bride presenting a coconut in a customary way to the groom at the time of the marriage. Here coconut is symbolic of the progency of the couple that the bridegifts the groom. Of all the fruits, coconut is most closely related to human skull because of the three marking on its base that resemble human facial features.
The mantras of virility
During saat pheras in a Hindu marriage, there are several mantras that are chanted for progency of the couple. While the first phera is for a long lasting companionship, in the second Phera, "Kutumburn rakshayishyammi sa aravindharam", the bride promises the groom that she will fill his with love and will bear children of him.
The History
There was a time when potency was considered as the be all and all of all activities. The earliest ritual of fertility among Hindus can be dated back to the Harappan civilization where it has been discovered that people worshipped clay figurines of a mother goddess who represented fertility. Several phallic symbols representing gods in sitting position wearing bull's horns (Bull being a universal symbol of male potency) have also been found at the sites of indus Valley Civilization. As the world evolved and ancient civilizations paved way to the modern societies, marriage started being considered as a mandatory ceremony before women could conceive. Also, the idea of marriage was propelled by the thought of having the family legacy move ahead; so that families could get heirs.
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Chinese Counterfeiters Get the Jump on iPhone 5
Aug 31, 2012 8:48 AM PT
China's well-known market for counterfeit goods, electronic and otherwise, has upped the ante: Now you can get knock-offs of products that haven't even been publicly revealed yet.
As Mashable points out, a Chinese company called "Goophone" is advertising a device that it calls the "iphone 5."
The actual iPhone 5 -- the real one, the one made by Apple -- has not been released yet. And even though the Internet is rife with images of mock-ups and supposedly leaked parts, Apple hasn't officially shown the world what the real device will look like.
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Meanwhile, in Japan ...
In a case dealing with the transfer of media content between electronic devices, a court in Tokyo has absolved Samsung Electronics of infringing on Apple patents, according to the BBC.
The ruling comes less than a week after Samsung was hit with a $1 billion fine in the U.S..
The back-to-back rulings on opposite sides of the globe are indicative of the marathon legal duel between Apple and Samsung. The two companies have been litigating in, to name a few countries, Australia (where a judge called the proceedings "ridiculous"), the UK (where a judge said that Samsung didn't infringe because it's products weren't nearly as cool) and the U.S. (where a judge asked lawyers if they were smoking crack).
Samsung has indicated that it will appeal the recent U.S. ruling, ensuring that this legal battle is nowhere near over.
Social Media Abuse May Have Landed Model in Psych Ward
Charlotte Dawson, an Australian model and a judge on Australia's Next Top Model, was admitted to a psychiatric clinic Thursday after what The Age described as a "social media onslaught."
The Age describes the various Twitter remarks that Dawson -- who reportedly has a history of depression -- was responding to and retweeting. Social media attacks on Dawson included telling her to hang herself, calling her an "attention whore" and more.
The report posits that Dawson's interaction with the harassers simply made matters worse. In addition to bantering with people on Twitter, Dawson went so far as to call the boss of a woman who was abusing her online.
Dawson's saga has reportedly sparked a debate about social media abuse in Australia, which has been dealing with the topic for some time.
Another incident of social media abuse happened in the UK, where a police office was arrested for harassing a women via Facebook, according to the Daily Mail.
Search Engine War Rages On in China
Baidu and Qihoo 360, a pair of Chinese companies which each have search engines, have escalated their ongoing tit-for-tat, according to Tech In Asia.
The most recent move: Qihoo, which was launched recently, has replaced Baidu's image results with images from government-owned Jike. Qihoo had previously linked to Baidu images, but now, after blacklisting Baidu maps, news, MP3s and so on, the company has completely cleansed its results of anything Baidu-related.
Baidu, which is the country's most popular search engine, had recently made it so anytime users tried to access Baidu content through Qihoo, they were automatically directed to Baidu's homepage.
Google Maps Euro Bike Paths
Google has added more than 330,000 miles of bike lanes to Google Maps.
The bike lanes, which will be accessible on Android devices, span a slew of European countries -- Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and more. This will turn any Android device in Europe into a ready-made navigation tool.
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
Durga's Shakti is in every woman!
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- Unknown said...
Durga was turned into an icon by bumbling politicians unwittingly.
The dasara themes now have durga nagpal as durga. And who will be the asura?
- August 10, 2013 at 1:33 PM
- Abhirami Muthu said...
In one of your earlier articles, you stated that badnaam Munnis should just ignore the gossipmongers. But isn't that equivalent to burying your head in the sand?
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- August 11, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Well said, Shobhaa!
Incidentally, I had penned a blog on Durga, in her support, somewhat predicting what all could happen. I have been proven right.
The link:
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United Kingdom 7
South Africa 2
United Arab Emirates 1
Canada 1
Germany 1
Spain 1
Ireland 1
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Honestly, Shobhaa, so far as the likes of you are around, the Durgas of this nation can feel safer.
And yes ... some day, the Durgas will turn out to be character played by the south India girl in the movie based in Kolkata, the avenging Mother Durga.
And you can bet, the old fart called Hari would be around, banging the cymbals in a mad frenzy of appreciation!
Down with corruption!
Down with political perfidy!
Down with so-called leaders skulduggery!
The Tamil poetic prophet said in the twenties:
We are not afraid!
We are not afraid!
The sky may fall on our heads
Yet we are not afraid,
We are not afraid
And we know not what is fear!
Young Durga, fight for your honour and what is right!
The nation is walking alongside you!
God Bless You!
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Come to East Port Marina, in Alpine, Tennessee, for your Dale Hollow Lake Getaway! This is the marina for Dale Hollow Lake cabin rentals, houseboat rentals, pontoon rentals, and fish and ski boat rentals. Here you will also discover the best cheeseburger on Dale Hollow Lake at East Port Marina Restaurant!
Their rental houseboats are some of the best on Dale Hollow Lake and extremely well priced because the marina is determined to not be undersold. You can choose from large 6 bedroom rental houseboats including Stardust, Southern Star, The Black Pearl, or StarShip2. The4 bedroom houseboats come with free kayaks rentals. Don't worry if you're new to houseboating and not sure if you can handle a big houseboat? Ask the staff to ride along and get you tied up for the night at no extra charge.
East Port Marina & Resort was established in 1965 by Buck and Bea Morton. The couple started out with 8 dock slips and a small fisherman's hut. They offered bait, tackle and some snacks. Eventually they expanded, adding 35 White Water Fishing Boats.
Ed and Peggy Stephens purchased the Dock in 1974, becoming the first to buy houseboats and rent to the public. They began adding cabin rentals and the hotel as well as a larger store offering souvenirs, warm food, gas, bait, and much more. Ed and Peggy own a home at the marina can still be seen around the docks telling stories "about the old days".
Clyde and Vickie Craig purchased the Marina in 1995. They all worked together to create a family style atmosphere for the customers. They introduced log cabin getaways at East Port, having up to 23 log cabins in the rental program. Clyde and Vickie added a new restaurant in 2002 which offers the famous "best cheeseburger on the lake", as well as catfish dinners, country breakfasts and hand dipped ice cream.
Richard, Wendy, Tanner, and Nathan DeVries purchased the Marina in November of 2007. The family atmosphere continues as the family takes East Port to the next level. During the summer being on the water in their boat is their idea of a perfect day! They have huge expectations and plan to build on the accomplishments of the past dock owners.
The DeVries' goal for East Port Marina and Resort is very simple. Treat customers with respect and offer services and products at a fair price. So come by the marina for a vacation, or just a cup of coffee, and become part of the NEW East Port Family!
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GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) - A veteran Garfield Heights Police Officer now faces serious departmental charges, following a Carl Monday investigation earlier this week.
Monday's expose included allegations that Robert Ward sent suggestive text messages to a woman who claims the two engaged in sexual activity inside Ward's police cruiser.
When Monday met recently with Police Chief Robert Sackett about the matter, the Chief promised to investigate. He wasted no time, recommending departmental charges a few days later. In a letter sent Thursday, Ward was advised he faces a list of possible charges, including unauthorized use of a vehicle, neglect of duty and conduct detrimental to the department.
Monday and his team have also looked into the officer's personnel file:
In 1995, A woman stop by Ward for a traffic violation asked her out on a date, and stalked her when she refused. There were two similar complaints, but the women refused to file formal complaints.
In 2002, a woman who was out drinking with the officer claims he later smacked her and pushed her into the kitchen cabinets. The incident cost Ward a verbal reprimand from the then chief.
In 2007, Ward was stripped of his duties as a detective in the narcotics unit after he threw a party at his house. There were allegations of underage drinking and a teen who attended the party claimed Ward tried to choke him.
In 2009, Ward received a warning for using the "N" word after responding to a call.
And currently, the Chief is investigating allegations by a female bartender that Ward made crude comments and tried to grab her breasts. Her son says Ward assaulted him when he tried to defend his mother. The City Prosecutor has already ruled no criminal act was committed, but the Chief is still investigating.
Officer Ward has refused to talk to Monday about any of this. He'll have a chance to tell his story at a disciplinary hearing after the Thanksgiving holidays.
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It's almost time for turkey and pumpkin pie, almost but not quite. Not until we get through a handful of earnings.
What follows is "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer's "Game Plan" for the week of Monday, Nov. 19th
Before the bell on Monday the Mad Money host will be listening closely to commentary fromLowe's.
"Home Depot reported a terrific number and then promptly fell. Now its rival will report, do we expect the same? Frankly, Lowe's isn't anywhere near as good as Home Depot. The only opportunity I see here is if the earnings are so bad that they knock down Home Depot, too. If that happens, then HD is the buy."
After the bell, the Mad Money host will be knee deep in burgers, fries and more as Jack in the Box reports.
"We've been big believers in this turnaround as they remodel the stores, and we like the Qdoba business. That said, we are more interested in listening to what Jack in the Box has to say than in taking action because the weakness of McDonald's has put a cloud over the whole group. Qdoba is the analogue to Chipotle —look for pin action either way," Cramer said.
Before the bell, the brick and mortar retail strategy for electronics will land front and center as Best Buy reports earnings.
"We heard fromSears that the consumer hard goods business remains totally cutthroat. We know that the company's in the crosshairs of Amazon. I'm looking for a downbeat quarter," said Cramer.
Also 'anticipation' will be the word of the day – with Heinz delivering numbers, too.
"This is the type of company that I have said is bottoming right here," said Cramer. "It's well run, international and benefits from lower commodity prices."
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After the close technology takes center stage with Salesforce.com.
"Throughout this difficult period there have been three tech themes—the PC is dead, the cellphone is alive but cutthroat, and the cloud is robust. Salesforce.com is in the heart of the cloud and I think it will be good, but will it be good enough? Nothing is good enough in this tape," Cramer said.
If you're interested in this name, Cramer suggests following the earnings and after the fiscal cliff is resolved, circling back.
The day before Thanksgiving, the Mad Money host will be all about heavy equipment.
No he's not cooking - Deere reports on Wednesday morning.
"If you own Deere, please please be careful," he said. "This is a stock that gets hit almost every conference call because the company is so cautious and negative."
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What do these places have in common?
While they are all fantastic holiday locations, another thing that links them is that they have all been visited by the Singapore Takeout extravaganza. Singapore Takeout is a mobile pop-up kitchen that is touring the globe to showcase Singaporean food and food products. The final stop on this tour was Sydney, and I was invited to attend. I was flown up to Sydney, accommodated at the Sebel Pier One and ate food from the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants number 27th ranked Iggy's with head chef Ignatius Chan. It was a surreal food dream, but one that I could totally relive forever. The only thing that could have made it better was if Jessica Alba was my date for the dinner, but that's another dream.
Singapore Takeout is an initiative of SPICE, Singapore International Culinary Exchange. It is a collaborative between International Enterprise Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board and SPRING Singapore. The aim is to promote Singapore as a culinary heaven and a perfect destination for any food lover.
At the Singapore Takeout event, I got to meet many other wonderful food bloggers, including my food blog inspiration, Helen, whose food blog was the first one I took inspiration from. I also caught up with Penny and Simon. I finally got to meet other food bloggers who I've admired in Suze, Simon and Thang. I even found out that Thang was the creator of SBS PopAsia, one of my favourite TV shows. Lastly, I got to meet new bloggers in The Food Pornographer, Christina, Tina and Minh.
The chatty group of food bloggers listened to the very funny Ignatius explain about Singaporean food and his own cooking style and passion. Ignatius also explained a bit about the menu he was cooking for us, comprising of classic dishes with a modern interpretation. We were going to watch a demonstration of the Nasi Lemak being cooked, but due to the mobile kitchen not having adequate cooking facilities, we watched a beautiful video of Singapore instead.
The meal started with the Nasi Lemak in question, which was a deconstructed dish. It was quite nice.
A Sushi dish followed which was inspired by Tetsuya. Instead of using rice, a meringue was used, which was interesting and good.
A Cold Capellini was extremely refreshing and left my palette wanting more.
Beef Cheeks with vegetables was really comforting and good.
The re-interpreted Kaya Toast with a brioche base and teh terik ice cream was excellent and my favourite item of the night.
While the food was nice, the Singaporean food message may have been pushed with even more impact. The addition of Ignatius to the event was obviously an impressive addition and he was extremely funny, but I think his food was a little bit compromised with the mobile kitchen. The event was a bit lost between trying to showcase Ignatius' high end food and capturing the essence of Singapore. I think a beautiful Nasi Lemak or Chili Crab being cooked in front of us so we can see and smell the wonderful ingredients and then eat it, would have had a stronger impact.
Overall, I would still be interested in going to Singapore again as I know how good the food is. I would recommend you check out the various websites and plan your own holiday there. I had a fantastic time at the Singapore Takeout, and in wonderful Sydney.
While my trip to Sydney was only short, I still managed to squeeze a bit more into it. On day 2, the wonderful Simon was kind enough to show myself and Christina around the Sydney Fish Markets. We ogled all the fresh seafood and took lots of photos, experimenting with subjects, composition and lighting.
Despite it being breakfast time, we all wanted to try the super fresh oysters, so settled on trying 4 varieties. They were really different but good.
After our market tour, Christina went to meet her friend while Simon and I dropped by Cre Asion for some absolutely amazing macarons. The 8 flavours I got were Lychee, Guava, Peanut Butter, Hoji Tea, Roasted Soybean, Caramel, White truffle hazelnut, pistachio. I loved every flavour but was most surprised by how good the truffle hazelnut combo was and the excellent pistachio. I don't think I've tried a better pistachio anywhere, except maybe Laduree in Paris. The textures on the macarons were a tad crunchy for my liking but after the second day, they were perfect.
The last pit stop was the famous Cafe Ish, where Christina rejoined us for lunch. We both had the famous Crab Omelette, which I did think was expensive when I saw it on the menu. But once I tasted it, it was worth every single cent. It was an utterly awesome dish, with crispy soft shell crab nested inside an egg omelette with soft avocado and a great sauce.
That concluded an amazing trip where I quickly got to see a bit of beautiful Sydney, attend Singapore Takeout and meet Ignatius Chan, met a lot of wonderful food bloggers and eat heaps of wonderful food.
Thanks to Frank PR for the invitation and SPICE for my flights and accommodation.


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McCain: 264,600 may quit military
3 top commanders warn Senate: Don't accept open homosexuality, 'reprogramming' rejected
WASHINGTON – As the commanders of the Army, Air Force and Marines cautioned the U.S. Senate against abruptly repealing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, critics are also warning that accepting open homosexuality and pro-homosexual "reprogramming" could drive massive numbers of troops out of the service.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pointed out during the first day of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on Thursday that according to a survey conducted for the Pentagon, repealing DADT could create an "alarming" troop retention problem at a time when the military is already shorthanded.
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Said McCain, "If 12.6 percent of the military left earlier, that translates into 264,600 men and women who would leave the military earlier than they had planned … Do you think that's a good idea to replace 265,000 troops … in a time of war?"
Military analyst Bob Maginnis, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and senior fellow for national security at the Family Research Council, said the real number could exceed half a million.
"Twelve-point-six percent is just the people who said they would leave," Maginnis told WND. "If you add in the number who said they 'might' leave, you get 23.7 percent. That would be 528,000, when you count both active duty and reserves.
"And that's only if you trust their numbers," Maginnis continued. "They have a real problem with their numbers. It's skewed toward noncombatants, and the Air Force had much larger proportional participation than the Army, so the numbers are totally unreliable.
"They spun their questions in a way that's absolutely bizarre. They literally have distorted the truth, it's all about repeal, not about what's good for the service," he said..
"I don't think people understand how they have spun these numbers. Not only is the survey biased, the way they combined their percentages is skewed. They say 50 or 55 percent of the troops support repeal, but that's not true. The big slice of that 55 percent is 'mixed', some positive, some negative." The truth is, it was 30 percent negative, and 15 or 20 percent positive."
Maginnis said the results of the survey consistently show that two service members oppose DADT repeal for every supporter.
Marine Corps commandant Gen. James Amos acknowledged Friday that a clear majority of combat Marines oppose permitting open homosexuality in the ranks.
"Their message is that the potential exists for disruption of the successful execution of our current combat mission should repeal be implemented at this time," said Amos.
In addition to compromising combat effectiveness, repealing DADT would also threaten unit cohesion and combat readiness, according to Amos.
"If the law is changed, successfully implementing repeal and assimilating openly homosexual Marines into the tightly woven fabric of our combat units has strong potential for disruption at the small unit level," Amos testified. "It will no doubt divert leadership attention away from an almost singular focus of preparing units for combat."
"[I] would not recommend going forward at this time, given everything the Army has on its plate," said Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey. "I believe the law should be repealed eventually."
Casey said DADT could be repealed with "moderate risk to our military effectiveness and the long-term health of the force.".
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz advised delaying any change until 2012, to give the military enough time to implement "training and education programs."
Only Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead recommended repealing DADT this year, parroting an argument made Wednesday by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen that the risks involved in allowing open homosexuality in the ranks could be overcome by "leadership."
"I believe these concerns can be effectively mitigated through engaged leadership," said Roughead.
Far from easing the transition to a "gay"-friendly military, the "training and education" recommended by Schwartz could actually amplify recruitment and retention problems, according to Maginnis. "You'll sit through mandatory classes and someone tells you what you can and cannot do. Criticism of homosexuality will receive zero tolerance. Sex and gender equality will be embedded in every basic officer training course all the way up to the war colleges."
"'Re-education,' that's a good term … or call it 'reprogramming,'" said Maginnis. "Ever since George Washington the military has been programmed to believe homosexuals are disruptive to morale and unit cohesiveness, and are a readiness problem. You have to expunge all those negative thoughts you have about homosexuality and replace them with what you're told by the chain of command about what's right and wrong.
"If you have strongly held religious beliefs you'll have cognitive dissonance, and it'll be very difficult to overcome. The military is ignoring privacy concerns, and you'll be told you'll have to room with a homosexual. Your commander will tell you that you will never be propositioned and your roommate will never leer at you, so your deeply held religious beliefs will be of no consequence," he said.
"You have a disproportionate number of evangelicals in the armed forces today. Retention among that population is going to be hit.
"Recruitment is the big elephant in the living room," Maginnis added. "The report says enlistment could decline by seven percent. That's serious. What they don't tell you is we recruit from the south and the mountain west states, which have the highest Protestant numbers of any of the states. We also find they come from families with a history of service. It's the fathers or grandfathers who recommend them to join the service. FRC looked at these vets, and they're decisively against these changes."
McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a leader of anti-repeal senators, claimed on Friday that enough senators oppose repealing DADT to block a vote on the issue during the current lame duck session. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., leader of the pro-repeal forces, reportedly has said enough senators will support a vote to override a filibuster.
The House has already passed legislation to repeal DADT, and President Obama is vigorously supporting the repeal.


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The General's Daughter
|Simon West
|Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman
|Paramount; R; 118 minutes
|John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell
Let's start with the title: The General's Daughter. The woman is a military possession. Then there's the repeated image of that same daughter raped, murdered, and staked to the ground. No, it isn't pretty. Turns out Capt. Elisabeth Campbell was a strong female in the Army, and the film seems to believe she deserved her grisly end.
John Travolta stars as the military investigator assigned to solve the high-profile case as quietly as possible. He's teamed with an old flame rape counselor (Madeleine Stowe), although nary a spark passes between the former couple. Suspects abound, motives multiply, scandals are unearthed, and scenes of unnecessary violence pop up quicker than Travolta delivers his winning one-liners. Well, maybe not that quick.
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Workers' Compensation Benefits, 11-2001. Last Review Date: 2009. Placed in University Policy Manual after EXPEDITED REVIEW, transitioned without substantive change from prior version, March 25, 2013.
Worker's Compensation Manager, 328-6166 Assistant Director, 328-6166 Associate Vice Chancellor, 328-6166
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1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose:
The purpose of Workers, Compensation Benefits is to protect the workers in the event that there is an on-the job injury.
1.1.1 This protection provides certain benefits to any employee who suffers disability by accident or occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his or her employment.
1.1.2 This is according to the provisions set by the North Carolina Workers, Compensation Act.
1.1.3 All University employees (including paid student employees) are covered by Workers, Compensation.
184.108.40.206 The appropriate forms must be received within 48 hours of the incident.
2. Responsibilities
2.1 Department:
2.1.1 The departmental representative reports the injury to EH&S immediately after notification.
2.1.2 The department representative shall provide the paperwork to the employee.
2.1.3 It is the department,s responsibility to inform the employee when the paperwork is complete and has been submitted to EH&S.
2.2 Departmental Supervisor:
2.2.1 The departmental supervisors are charged with ensuring that the employee has completed the correct Workers, Compensation forms.
2.2.2 These forms should then be sent to EH&S for processing.
2.3 Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S):
2.3.1 This group reports all documented incidents and injuries to the third party contractor for approval of Workers, Compensation benefits.
18.104.22.168 EH&S works with the Office of State Personnel and completes the OSHA 300 log annually.
2.4 Employee:
2.4.1 The employee is responsible for reporting any injuries or incidents to their supervisor immediately.
2.4.2 They are to make sure they attend every medical appointment that is scheduled through Workers, Compensation and that all paperwork required is complete.
3. Procedures and Guidelines
3.1 Medical Benefits:
3.1.1 The full cost of medical treatment is covered by Workers, Compensation if the injury/illness is compensable under the Workers, Compensation Act.
3.2 Workers, Compensation Benefits:
3.2.1 Employees who suffer lost work-time injuries/illnesses are eligible to receive Workers, Compensation weekly benefits equivalent to 2/3 of their weekly wages, with a maximum equal to the average wage in North Carolina.
3.2.2 This wage is subject to adjustment.
3.3. Continuation of Benefits:
3.3.1 The employee drawing Workers, Compensation will continue to earn annual and sick leave credits for a period not to exceed 12 months following the date of the injury.
3.3.2 If the employee is unable to return to work within 30 days following the twelve month period, all accumulated sick and annual leave will be paid to the individual in a lump sum.
3.4 Effects of Workers, Compensation Leave on Benefits:
3.4.1 The employee,s increment, anniversary dates and health insurance are not affected while an employee is on Workers, Compensation Leave.
3.4.2 Monthly premiums for the employee will be paid by the state; however, premiums for any dependent coverage must be paid directly by the employee.
3.4.3 Retirement service credit is not received while on Workers, Compensation leave.
3.4.4 Normal payroll deductions are not made from Workers, Compensation weekly benefits.
3.5 Waiting Periods:
3.5.1 Workers, Compensation weekly benefits are not payable for the first seven day waiting period following an accident, unless the total lost work-time exceeds 21 calendar days.
3.5.2 The seven calendar day waiting period is waived if the lost work-time exceeds 21 days and Workers, Compensation weekly benefits can then be received for the first 7 days (40 hours counting Sunday-Saturday).
3.5.3 During the seven day waiting period, the employee may use accrued sick or annual leave if available, or choose to go off the payroll for the waiting period with no pay.
3.6 Limitations Based on Length of Disability:
3.6.1 Workers, Compensation weekly benefits are not payable if the lost work-time is 7 calendar days or less.
3.6.2 Thus, for payroll purposes, the lost work-time must be charged to sick leave, annual leave, or leave without pay.
3.7 Use of Leave Options:
3.7.1 The employee who earns sick and vacation leave may select any one of the following options when an on-the-job injury occurs.
3.7.2 However, after an option has been selected by the employee, it cannot be changed during the period covered.
3.7.3 Options:
126.96.36.199 Option 1: Elect to take sick or vacation leave during the 7 day waiting period and then go on workers, compensation leave benefits.
22.214.171.124 Option 2: Elect to go on workers, compensation immediately with no pay for the seven day waiting period and then begin drawing workers, compensation weekly benefits.
220.127.116.11.1 *Note: In either option above, if the injury results in disability of more than 21 days, the workers, compensation weekly benefit shall be allowed from the date of the disability.
220.127.116.11 Option 3: Elect to supplement the workers, compensation weekly benefits with the use of partial earned sick or vacation leave in accordance with the schedule provided by the Office of State Personnel.
22.214.171.124.1 *Note: All elections involving the use of earned sick or vacation leave are subject to their availability.
3.8 Sick Leave and Annual Leave:
3.8.1 Employees continue to earn sick and annual leave for a period of up to one year while drawing Workers, Compensation weekly benefits.
3.8.2 If the employee is unable to return to work, vacation and sick leave accumulated during the first 12 months of leave will be paid in a lump sum along with other unused vacation.
3.9 Credit Union Accounts:
3.9.1 No Credit Union loan payments or any other payroll deductions will be deducted from Workers, Compensation weekly benefits.
3.9.2 Thus the Credit Union and others should be contacted for payment arrangements.
4. Program Review:
4.1 This program should be reviewed every 3 years or when necessary changes have occurred.


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Keiton Page tried to explain to his Oklahoma State teammates the sensation of fans rushing the Gallagher-Iba Arena court to celebrate a big upset.
With freshman swingman Le'Bryan Nash flashing the brilliance that made him a McDonald's All-American, they got to experience it for themselves.
Nash scored a career-high 27 points, Brian Williams added a career-best 22 and Oklahoma State knocked off No. 2 Missouri 79-72 on Wednesday night, handing the Tigers their second loss of the season.
"Le'Bryan played at a very high speed tonight, a very high gear. All of his moves were a little bit more explosive," Cowboys coach Travis Ford said.
Nash scored 13 points during a 17-4 burst that sent the Cowboys (10-10, 3-4 Big 12) into the lead in the final 4 minutes and the Tigers didn't have a response.
Nash hit a jumper and a 3-pointer to get it going, then nailed another 3 from the left side to give the Cowboys a 65-64 lead with 3:23 to play. He connected on another 29 seconds later and ran to the opposite end of the court when Missouri (18-2, 5-2) called timeout to encourage a student section that was already hopping up and down to bring it on.
When the clock hit zero, the students rushed the court and huddled around Oklahoma State's players at midcourt.
Earlier in the week, Page fielded questions from his younger teammates about his experiences from an upset of top-ranked Kansas two seasons ago, hoping for a similar result.
"A lot of them just wanted to know what it was like for the students to run on the floor," Page said. "My answer's a lot different for them. I'm 5-9. They can see, they can breathe when it happens."
Ricardo Ratliffe had 25 points and 12 rebounds to lead Missouri, which allowed the Cowboys to shoot a season-best 59 percent. They hadn't surpassed 49 percent against an NCAA opponent all season.
"I thought that our focus was not where it needed to be in order to win a game like this on the road," Tigers coach Frank Haith said.
Missouri got steals on three straight possessions to fuel a 10-2 run in the first 5 minutes of the second half, taking a 48-41 lead when Ratliffe waited out two defenders leaping prematurely to block his shot at the left block before scoring the basket.
Ratliffe's three-point play off a spinning bucket at the right block gave the Tigers their largest lead at 53-45 with 14:22 to play, but it didn't last.
"I expected it to be a hard-fought game," Haith said. "This is Big 12 basketball. There's good players.
"We didn't do what we needed to do to finish the game out once we got control of the game."
Nash had a bucket off a baseline inbounds pass and another off a post-up move against Kim English to get Oklahoma State within striking distance.
Markel Brown added another energizing play with a right-handed dunk off an alley-oop but got called for his second technical foul for getting in Matt Pressey's face and was ejected. Marcus Denmon hit the two free throws from the technical and Ratliffe added two more off a third-chance opportunity to push the lead back to 60-53, but the Cowboys didn't miss a beat.
After Nash's big spurt, Williams had a two-handed dunk in transition and a three-point play to help preserve the lead down the stretch.
Nash had scored 21 points four times this season but was coming off a rough performance when he had only four points and got himself into foul trouble.
"I was trying to get aggressive in the second half," Nash said. "I talked to my coaches and they were like, 'Don't try to let the ball come to you. Go get the ball.'
"Basically, that's what my teammates did. My teammates got me the ball in good situations and once it started rolling, the shots started falling."
Ford credited a renewed commitment from Nash, who stuck around for extra shots following shootaround instead of joining his teammates to eat.
"When he's shooting like that, give him the ball every single time. He was making big plays on the offensive end and the defensive end," Page said. "If (Nash) keeps playing like that and we keep playing as a team, we could be a dangerous team in the Big 12."
Denmon finished with 17 points but on 4-for-16 shooting. Phil Pressey, the Big 12's assists leader, matched his season low with two.
It continued a rough stretch for Top 25 Missouri teams in Gallagher-Iba Arena. The Tigers have lost six straight games while ranked in Stillwater, dating back to 1992, and may not be visiting again anytime soon with next season's move to the Southeastern Conference.
Four of those six losses have come at the hands of unranked Oklahoma State teams.
Brown provided a boost right from the start with a thunderous right-handed jam on Oklahoma State's first possession after winning the tip. He picked up a technical foul 90 seconds into the game that seemed inconsequential at the time but eventually led to his dismissal.
OSU made an uncharacteristic 57 percent of its shots while leading most of the first half. Page's step-back jumper from the left elbow provided the Cowboys a 37-36 lead at the break.
The first half marked the third-best shooting performance in a half this season for Oklahoma State, the Big 12's worst shooting team at 41 percent, only to be outdone by a 62 percent mark after halftime.
"It's a huge win for us. It's a big win," Page said. "It just shows us what we're capable of. It shows us we can play with anybody. We still have a long ways to go. ... This team's hungry. This team's hungry for wins."


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Have you heard the term "food desert?"
It means an area where people have little or no access to grocery stores that offer fresh and affordable foods needed to maintain a healthy diet. The food that is for sale in these areas comes from fast food restaurants and convenience stores.
You can tell a person living in a food desert to eat more a more healthy diet, but without access to healthy foods it can be nearly impossible. In those areas, rates of health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are high.
Now let's think about how that term applies to the first food, breastmilk.
Nursing mothers don't need access to supermarket in order to provide healthy food for their babies – they need breastfeeding support. That support takes multiple forms, from knowledgeable breastfeeding help, to employer support, to supportive attitudes about nursing in public.
You can tell a mother in a "first food desert" to breastfeed, but without those supports it can be extremely difficult. In these areas, breastfeeding rates are low, rates of infant and child health problems – including infant mortality – are alarmingly high.
Kimberly Seals Allers, journalist and author and IATP Food and Community Fellow of the Kellogg Foundation, set out to investigate places where breastfeeding rates are low and infant mortality is high, to see if these places are in fact "first food deserts," where the support necessary to make breastfeeding possible is absent. She traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, New Orleans, and Jackson, Mississippi to assess the landscape of breastfeeding support in those communities, interviewing health care providers, child care providers, church leaders, the management of different public places such as museums and malls, and conducting "man on the street" interviews.
What she found underscores the importance of "place," when it comes to breastfeeding success. In one community, Birmingham, she found:
- No breastfeeding support group of any kind. The nearest one is in a suburban community 15 miles away and not accessible by public transportation
- No WIC breastfeeding peer counselors
- No private nursing areas for moms in any public place
- Unsupportive attitudes toward nursing in public
- Staff at child care centers untrained in handling human milk
- Generally negative sentiment toward breastfeeding in public
- No state law providing for employer accommodations of nursing mothers, and lack of support among employers for mothers who need to pump
- Formula marketing in the hospital and other settings frequented by new mothers
In an interview with me on her findings, Kimberly mentioned that staff at one hospital told her that they were offered monetary incentives by a formula company in exchange for not becoming Baby Friendly.
I asked Kimberly if she saw racial differences in experience, and she confirmed that many of the mothers hurt by this "first food desert" are African American. But she also noted that the bigger dividing line may be class, since low income mothers of any race living in the area face the these obstacles.
Kimberly's research has uncovered another Booby Trap – a way in which mothers are encouraged to breastfeed and set up to fail. This time the barrier is place. The absence of support in nearly all forms, and the active undermining of breastfeeding success through formula marketing, represent an insurmountable obstacle for most mothers. We are used to hearing about differences in breastfeeding rates by states, but these "first food deserts" can be located anywhere – even in states with relatively high breastfeeding rates.
To do something about this problem, Kimberly has launched a project called "Be First Food Friendly," calling on the governors of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana to increase support for nursing mothers in these communities. We hope you'll sign on and encourage the eradication of "first food deserts" in these and other communities.


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2 with ties to Perdue surrender at Wake jailWednesday, November 30th, 2011
By MICHAEL BIESECKER
Associated Press
RALEIGH, NC (AP) — Two people with close ties to Gov. Bev Perdue have surrendered at the Wake County jail on charges related to campaign finance violations.
Both were quickly released Wednesday on $50,000 unsecured bonds.
Juleigh Sitton of Morganton recently resigned as director of the governor's Western Office. Sitton was indicted on two felony charges Monday, accused of accepting $32,000 in secret salary payments from illegal campaign donations when she worked for Perdue's 2008 campaign.
Perdue family friend Trawick H. "Buzzy" Stubbs Jr. of New Bern faces felony charges for providing more than $28,000 in undisclosed flights on a private plane to Perdue. Stubbs was the law partner of the governor's deceased first husband.
Former Perdue campaign finance director Peter A. Reichard was also indicted. He was released on bond Tuesday.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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My wife and I own O'Neil and OS Systems drysuits. When we need more warmth than a 3/2 wetsuit, we throw on a drysuit over the 3/2. It works for us just as he says.
Riding alone in cold water is dangerous; doing this in offshore winds is a fatality waiting to happen.gideonlow wrote:Several folks from CT responded to this post. You had a rider in your community pass-away last winter after being caught on the sound for several hours.
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I'm sitting in a restaurant and in the booth across from me are two young people on a date, both with their faces buried in their phones working away. What happened to communication? What happened to personal interaction? What happened to basic people skills?
Technology happened, and it is turning the art of communication into raw information exchange. Technology is also changing interactions between people and how our credit unions are interacting with our members, and it appears to be changing almost faster than we can keep up.
Innovations in the finance industry seem to rival the pace of the vast technological advances in the medical industry. Weekly the bar of innovation is raised, and what was cutting edge a year ago is now the new norm. From websites to online services to mobile banking to electronic signature capture to remote deposit of checks, the technological advances keep coming.
Not only are tech advances changing the ways members interact with the credit union, but they are also changing the expectations members have for our traditional services.
The Kabbage Patch
Kabbage.com is a pioneer in online business lending services and is a leading provider of working capital for small businesses. Whether your credit union offers small business loans for members, participates in CUSO's or only makes traditional home and vehicle loans, Kabbage will have an impact on your member expectations.
Why? Because Kabbage promises to approve or deny funding within seven minutes for loans of $500 to $50,000. Their slogan is "Fast Flexible Funding at Your Fingertips." This can be a game changer in the marketplace as it resets the attitude for wait time on loans. Non-traditional providers offering faster and easier (online) loans will no doubt provide pressure on traditional lenders to expedite their current loan processes.
OnDeck.com is also a player in this market with loans up to $250,000. Their cutting edge services include decisions in minutes – no paperwork, no waiting and no obligations, with transparent terms and conditions. They say the borrower can get funded within one business day by wire transfer.
I've already heard board members in my audience ask, "If they can do this in a day why can't my credit union process car and home loans faster than we do?" This is the expectation shift created by this new technology. How are you expediting your loan processing in 2014?
Self-Serve Branches
There remains a gap between those members who are embracing the technology of mobile banking and online services and those members who still prefer to walk into a brick and mortar building. The demise of branches has obviously been overstated and branches are here to stay for the foreseeable future. However, that doesn't mean they aren't going to change with technology.
A decade ago airlines began to offer customers online services for printing boarding passes, yet many travelers still preferred to speak with an agent at the airport. Do airlines still offer agents for assistance? Yes. Has the form of that transaction changed? Yes. Agents are now there to assist travelers with operating the self-service machines for check-in instead of doing it all for them.
In a similar step of efficiency of time and cost savings on personnel, credit unions should be rapidly moving toward a more self-service branch, where tellers are more of an assistant with members conducting their own transactions with member-friendly touch screen technology.
The Shark in the Tank
Imagine pairing a well-known financial name with the largest retailer in the world to offer credit and debit services targeting the unbanked at over 22,000 ATM and retail locations around the country. This reality puts a big player in the middle of every credit union's field of membership. American Express and Wal-Mart have done just that with their Bluebird service. Bluebird.com tells the story of a checking and debit alternative that is "Loaded with features. Not fees." This is a significant game-changer for credit unions attempting to work with the under-served.
Wal-Mart kiosks allow for easy sign up supported by American Express 24/7 customer service. In their marketing they speak the language of their target audience: no overdraft fees, no annual fees, and no inactivity fees. Paychecks or government checks can be directly deposited, and cash can be added to any account at virtually any Wal-Mart store. Bill pay is also available.
As technology gets more user-friendly, those financial institutions with the fastest, easiest to use member interface with minimal fees will take a leading role in the technological battle all credit unions are facing. What technological advances are you making in 2014?
Russell J. White is president of Banking Agility in Charlotte, N.C.


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Photographer Lee Miller: Liberation of Denmark, May 1945 , The Museum of National History, Denmark
At the end of May 1945, Lee Miller went to Denmark and the exhibition shows her documentation of the joy of liberation. See, among other things, photos of refugees' moving return from Sweden, British soldiers' meeting with Copenhagen citizens and visits to Crown Prince Frederik IX's family at Amalienborg.
This exhibition which come from the Lee Miller Archives is almost completely previuosly unseen images by Lee Miller, which is presented with extra information provided by the historians at the Museum of National History, Denmark. The accompanying catalogue includes Lee Miller's unedited manuscripts in relation to her assignment in Denmark.


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My own contribution for this theme consists of two tintypes, mounted in flimsy paper sleeves the size of cartes de visite. They are part of a larger collection of 73 loose photographs which I purchased as a single lot on eBay last year. The vendor told me that they had originally been acquired together, and my own research has given me reason to believe that they do indeed belong together. Although these tin types are not inscribed, I've been able to determine, by comparison with others in the collection in which the subjects are identified, and by some additional research, who is depicted and approximately when it was taken.
Measuring roughly 69 x 82 mm, they are an odd size, somewhere between quarter-plate and sixth-plate. Both show a woman seated on the beach with two young children. She is Emily Minns née Carr (1840-1927), wife of Stoke Newington draper Charles Thomas Minns (1838-1900), and the two children with her are most likely her two eldest sons Charles Walter Marston Minns (1874-1951) and Frederick Thomas Minns (1875-1956).
Her third son was born in late 1877, which suggests to me that these two photographs were taken in the summer of 1877, probably by an itinerant beach photographer. The second image, taken from a slightly different angle, includes what may be a large spoked wheel of a bathing machine, similar to that shown in an early 20th Century photograph which I posted two weeks ago as a submission for the 105th Carnival of Genealogy (Swimsuit Edition).
Ladies' and Children's Bathing Suits
Harper's Bazaar, 15 July 1876
I assumed initially that they were dressed for outdoor activities. However, now that I've looked at Stella Blum's Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazaar 1867-1898, I think they could well be wearing bathing suits. Although not identical - that would be so "last year" wouldn't it - the clothes are similar to those depicted in the engraving shown from July 1876, reproduced above. Perhaps someone more familiar with Victorian fashions can confirm - or refute - this. While they belong firmly in the "What were they thinking?" category in the present day, I feel they were at the height of fashion back then.
I'm looking forward to a suitably eclectic selection of swimsuits among the other Sepia Saturday contributions this week.


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Surrey Hills Cyclists pose for the map car
About a year ago, posted about a Good Deed Mapped. The Google Maps cars captured cyclists helping each other in downtown Seattle. Today, from Surrey Hills UK, we see cyclists posing for the StreetView cameras as it drives by. Don't know the exact story, Jack Thurston from the Bike Show posted the photo on Twitter. Maybe it was just timing that they'd stopped on that corner or they saw it coming and rode ahead?
And here's the Good Deed Mapped video. Also see Guy Browne in Canada riding to work at Schwalbe.


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Software. Later today I'll post two or three of the original pics next to the edited pics, the difference is astonishing. I'm using a very heavy hand in the editing of all the ones I've posted and I'm doing it on purpose. Most of those places don't look that vibrant in real life either.
for paintball id say just make sure you have plenty of light, set your fastest shutter speed and set your aperture as small as you can, then shoot in a continuos mode so you get a burst series of pics for everything you take.
Edit: in the example you posted they probably used a wider aperture to get the background blurred like that. I bet some of your pics will look similar to that with some editing though.
It's surely got to be a multitude of factors. There is no single factor
However if i may indulge myself: For me, having no training or perticular skills i can safely say the gear does all the work. In addition, the situation (subject) is also key. I don't have the time or inclination for any training in shooting or post processing, whatever comes out is what it is and I'll pick what I think is the best. What I shoot is made infinitely better due to using top gear. It's not like guitar where you have a $5000 guitar and $5000 amp with $5000 worth of effects (not actually uncommon) and in the wrong hands sound like shit, and a $100 guitar and $100 can sound great in the right hands.. Of course there is always exceptions to the rule but on the whole using top gear in photography for random shoots waking around town or on vacation will make any piece of shit look good, and I mean literally if I took a shot of a piece of dog shit on the floor, the picture quality and vibrancy will be absolutely marvellous on my 7D and 70-200L 2.8 mk2, it's just a fact. So in the right hands it'll make the world of difference. Kanon (poster on here) has gotten hold of some of my pics on the old forum and what she has done with post processing has been night and day. The same would be said if she did something to the ones I just posted. And then the originals you saw would look even more ameture. So it's a heap of factors, not entirely gear but in my case the gear does the work for me, and being in the right place helps. Me and my wife are in Tibet as i write this, and I took the below on my iPhone as an example just 5 minutes ago (I have a Chinese sim and 3G so I still have internets..). If you're wondering why i'm reading the boards, it's because i'm all templed out for the day and frankly a bit bored.
The above is just an unedited iPhone(5) pic. IMO this picture is potentially interesting, as it is not as common as a sharp image of a dilapidated apartment block down the street from where you live, or an artsy picture of a coke can with lots of post processing. thats where the subject matter comes into play. But if I were to take this same pic on my 7D with 24-70L (which I did not bring on this trip) it would be infinitely better, and better still if someone post processed it properly. The foundation however is the gear.
Edit: now i'm back at the hotel and seen it on the 'big screen', I think there is a limit to how good this pic could be using an iphone even in the hands of a professional photographer. The sky would still be noisy, the colours would be dull, the lines would not be sharp, and there is an overal lack of vibrancy and '3Dness'. a skillful hand in post processing will yeild 'more' vibrant colours and clear away some of the noise, but it result still would't be anything special, and there will be plenty more of where that came from on instragram. Good gear is key IMO.
Note: I am a fan of 'gear' in general, so I am bias.
Here's a couple of the originals from the first set I posted. Definitely a huge difference. I do agree with most of what Ting said, with one big exception. Where he says, "The foundation however is the gear." I would say the foundation is the subject. Sure, you can take a badass camera & lens and any picture you take is going to have awesome detail and be a 'good' picture in terms of definable characteristics like sharpness & contrast. However, its still a 'good' picture of a 'pile of shit.' If you have no idea how to capture the image you want, taking into consideration things like perspective and lighting, then your pictures aren't going to be interesting no matter how 'good' they technically are. It'd be like listening to your favorite guitarist (Carpenter?) practising scales. Sure, it'd be interesting for a minute or two, and there'd be the wow factor involved....after about the 2 minute mark though, you'd be gouging your ears out.
For the guitar analogy, I'd say having good gear and not knowing how to take good pictures would be similar to having good gear & good chops but having zero sense of phrasing or how to put a solid riff together.
Your gear does make a HUGE difference; investments into your camera body/lens will give you a greater return in the hobby than investments in better amps & guitars & shit in that hobby. However, I would say its like 50% knowing what picture to take, 45% equipment and 5% post-processing. Although the post-processing % might go up while 'knowing what picture to take' or equipment goes down.
Chain you are right, I agree with you. I minced my words a bit as I'm posting from my phone on a mountain. Clearly the foundation if a good picture is the subject, but as Buddhas question (seen a lot of buddas today as it happens!) was to do with image quality. Ie "how do you guys get such clear and rich photos", to me the subject is irrelevant for a clear and rich photo, As you can have a clear and rich photo of a dog turd, which is why IMO the foundation is the gear. Lighting and all those bits and pieces yes, but as I noted, I have no knowledge of such things and it doesn't affect my pics negatively, as the gear does all that automatically, I just delete the shit pics. Most of the good lighting etc is by chance.
in reference to buddas question specifically, I'm sticking with gear. But in general, then of course it's subject
Ahhhh you're right. You answered his question, I talked about whatever the fuck I wanted to good point. In that case I would agree too.
Do you take all your pics on the auto setting? I've found I can get good pictures that way and I use it if I'm just taking walkabout pics, but when it comes to actually trying to capture what I'm seeing the way I want it to appear in the image I have to go manual. In which case a basic understanding of the settings are needed. I still don't know shit about photography and don't mean to sound like my opinion is based on vast experience or knowledge, just what I've learned from dicking around with my first DSLR.
right now I just know enough that I feel like I can get pretty good pictures out of my D5100, but I definitely am gasing for a full frame body instead, like (I believe) your 7D is.
The 7D isn't full frame, only the 5Ds and 1Ds. I'd love a 5D mk3 but couldn't justify the cost, and I think the 7D is better than the 5D mk2 even though it's not full frame. I prefer the features but some will disagree.
i use the manual mode exclusively as I've got used to it. Generally if I'm not getting under maximum 800 ISO with a decent shutter speed then I won't waste my time taking the pic. TV mode Is ok but I still prefer to tweak on the fly. I never got the hang of AV mode as my shutter speeds were always out of whack, I don't know why it's a good mode to be in. Auto is crap on the 7D as it engages the flash wherever possible for some reason and engages some disgusting ISOs unless you're literally in blazing mid day. Shutter speed recognition is also crap for moving objects like people etc. So manual only for me even though my choices might not always be correct (they are probably always wrong actually!). The 7D can do a shit load of stuff it's a good body, I don't Utalize it anywhere near as much but the image quality it produces is why I want it.
Gotcha. We bought ours kind of as an impulse so I didn't research much beyond 'do I want the Canon or the Nikon that costs X amount.' And then the Nikon was on sale, so the research wasn't of import anyways (I had picked out the Nikon ahead of time anyways, for the record)
That 'blazing mid-day light' is just about the only time I'm OK with auto-mode as well. Otherwise I get the same results...shutter speed/ISO/aperature settings all kinds of whack compared to what I feel like would be a better picture. When I DO use auto though I just make sure to keep it on the 'no flash' setting. That way at least it won't engage that. I'm sure flash is very useful in a lot of situations....so far I haven't found any setting where I'd rather use flash than set a longer shutter speed or adjust other settings. I have found that I can actually take pretty good pictures between 1-2000 ISO if absolutely necessary. Definitely doesn't get as noisy as fast as I remember my first P&S cameras back in the day. I used to stick with auto more because I didn't know I could set my own shortcut buttons for adjustments, so ISO and I think one other thing I could only change by going into menu's which took way too damn long...now I can change everything with a button/wheel combo so its much easier.
Weather proof sounds like exactly what I need. I'm so worried about my camera over here, particularly during the summer. I'm sure you've dealt with it...the heat/humidity being so bad outside that your lense & screen fog to shit as soon as you step outside and the whole camera actually feels like its producing condensation. I dunno how bad that is on all the components...I've kind of been ignorance-is-blissing it and going with the logic that they MUST be built to withstand shit like that
I've been kind of wanting to ask though...why a 70-200mm lens? Not because I'm questioning your choices, but because I'm wondering if I'm missing something. I've got a 10-20, 18-55 & 55-300. I've seen a couple 70-200 that looked pretty nice, I just can't figure out if there would be any real reason to carry it around assuming the picture quality isn't like twice as good as the 55-300 is... If I could find like a 10-200, I think I'd be in heaven for a walking around lens
I think you will be fine regarding weather proofing, i agree i'm sure they're made to withstand plenty. When i bought mine originally i was using it specifically on a construction site in a country (Azerbaijan) with extremely strong winds, and during the summer a lot of grit in the air. In addition you can comfortably shoot in the rain. As you can imagine construction sites can be extremely dirty places so i wanted to be safe rather than sorry. It comes in handy in the kind of places i go as they are very jungle-esq more than half the time.
Regarding the lenses, the bigger gap you go in terms of zoom the bigger the drop in picture quality goes. The smaller the zoom range on the whole gets you closer to what prime lens image quality can yield. talking very generally here. Outside of a studio on the whole prime lenses are not always that useful, so a zoom is nessesary. I have a 24-70L 2.8 which is ideal for landscape and buildings, but can do portrait at 70 if need be, and a 70-200L IS 2.8 (II) which is portrait heaven for places like markets and weddings; so most of my range is covered, I dont feel i need any wider, and i dont need any zoom(ier). I have a 50 1.4 prime as well for shits and giggles. If i had 2 bodies the 24-70 and 70-200 would be all i'd ever need, i don't have lens gas other than for primes (of which i do not need, but i'd love a 85L for fun, an absolutely fuck off lens if there ever was one). and for reference, the 70-200L IS 2.8 mk2 is probably the best zoom lens ever made.
Ahh that makes sense. My 55-300 does well enough at both ends of the zoom range, but its definitely not razor sharp at 300mm. I have used it to get some pretty cool shots of seaguls in flight while sitting on a beach though.
Lens gas is a problem for me right now I bought the 10-20 wide angle recently and I'm digging it. Definitely some distortion in the edges (noticeable in the picture of the Mosque) but not too bad. That thing is GREAT for indoors, market areas & other such places where you don't get much chance to take 10 steps back from your subject to get the whole thing in frame. I bought it thinking I'd like it more for landscapes and things like that, but its turning out I like it more for the up-close stuff. What I DEFINITELY want right now though is a macro lens or two. Haven't decided if I'll go with the Nikkor brand or get a Tamron/Sigma, but I will definitely be getting one sooner than later, probably 80mm or higher. I had the 60mm Nikkor-Micro for a night and loved the quality, but you had to get so close to the subject to get a full-frame macro shot of it that the lens would cast a shadow from the flash. I want something more like 80 or 120 so I can be 12" away and still get a full frame shot of say a bug or something.
The picture in Jordan with the blue painting of waves & birds on the side of the building & the picture of the water fountain with the mosque in the background were both taken at 300mm. The picture of the water crashing over the concrete step with the lightpost reflected on the step was at 55 (with the 55-300) for some examples of that lens. For the most part it looks fantastic as long as you aren't trying to crop out a portion of the picture and then blow it up to full size, then you start to see some lack of definition.


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I'm not good enough to do anything interesting. But I'm a pretty experienced wakeboarder. Right now I have a Large North Jaime Pro (kinda short but hella wide) board. Riding it with sandal bindings feels more like wakeskating than anything else I can compare it to. I feel like if I were to go to wake style sooner than later I would be able to progress much faster. I have a wakeboard with very nice, easy-to-get-in-and-out-of bindings and I have my wake board. Is their any reason why my wake bindings would be incompatable with my kiteboard? I figure the wake board is just too heavy.
You can do it. A lot of people ride like this. The only problem is that kiteboarding is not exactly like wakeboarding. You can go wakestyle with kite bindings just fine. The reason is that you need to be able to change the positions of your feet more while kting then when being pulled behind a boat on a wakeboard. You will also learn a lot faster on a kite specific board. Alos wind is not like your buddy in the boat that can speed up and slow down when you want to. You also can't just let go of the bar and wait for the boat to come around. Hence you need to be able to get in and out of your bindings quickly. This is coming from someone that started with wakeboard bindings and learned the hard way. Now I can do anything that I could with wake bindings and more on strap bindings. One being board of tricks. It is a bit hard to do with boot bindings on. Either way works but you will have more fun starting out with strap bindings. Just my opinion!
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Some believe this paradigm shift began only recently with the Obama administration and its policy of fundamental transformation. It may in fact be the result of an unassuming American electorate putting in power an individual who was cunning, effacing, devious and eloquent enough to effect this paradigm shift long desired by the progressive (aka "government is the answer") movement.
If we continue with progressivism and forsake our founding principles, then our American way of life may be doomed to permanent mediocrity, economic bankruptcy and personal scavenging. We would shift from a society powered by personal exceptionalism to a human mass of The Governed.
The winds of change have been blowing on our American way of life for some time. Just ask yourself when was the last time you heard someone say "Go ahead and cut my benefit" or "I don't need that entitlement" or "I can live without that deduction"? We have little time before our society becomes permanently entombed in a self-destructive entitlement culture with each citizen scavenging for the leftovers of the great American experiment!
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It's not just the house that needs some TLC, it's the listing copy. Also, really, there are still short sales? What are they waiting to happen? Is the FB going to magically pay off this loan and throw the bank an extra $500K for their trouble?
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I have 44-34-3 (81 games) with the Edna win in 79? Doubled chk thru excel calculations so we are at least 2 wins off? lol, though I didfixed 2003 PI/Hondo score and 1994 PI/Carrizo Springs scores
I believe its the same 5 games for the semis (bi-district, area, regionals, qtrs, semis & finals(6th round) Maxpreps had the bracket up but cant find it right now.
As far as 3rd round quarters, for ex in 1980 I belive only 1 team advanced from the district so less teams meant less rounds (to see visually chk out http://www.texasfootballratings.com/...fs/3A1980.html )
So adding a second team added more rounds, also changes when big school and small schools teams advance also affected # of rounds.
Re-check the PI qtr final years with the website i gave u to have a better understanding on the naming schemes and where they show up (ie, regional rounds).
I'll chk my spreadsheeet if i have the total playoff wins, etc. Just finishing my 'off-season' and starting to revise the stats etc.
I went through your site and came up with 81 Playoff games and 47 wins since 1952, But included Edna as a win. So if that is wrong it would be 46 wind. I did a chart
that showed that might have a mistake here or there but as I go through it on wins losses that is what I get. The four round to semis and five round to semis
confuses me as to how to say that. Have three round Qtr. Finals and four round Qtr Finals. Regionals and Semi-Regionals also got me confused in a few.
Is this coming year going to be a five or four round to get to state semis.??
Hey I feel we are going to have a good team. Whether we start slow or fast I feel by three games we will be playing well. Hope the kids surprise us and start strong
again. There is some good talent in the group to put together a good team. Hasta Luego
Just had an idea, Don't know if you would, could or just won't but maybe you should compile a 2012 video of Tarpons going back to two a days, quotes on papers on our ups and downs, wins, losses, and to the four rounds of Playoff. Would that be too difficult? Just an idea, don't have to make it too long just enough to bring in the highlights of the year, with media and games, new players etc.
Easy for me to say but it would be a good one for this memorable Tarpon year. We did better than 2004 and I was saying all year that this team is the best team since 2004.
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We had four championships this year. District, Bi-District, Area, and one in Regional.
My question is what is the proper championship title used by UIL for our win over Navarro? Semi-Regional? Regional Semi finalist Championship? Or something else?
Let me know to correct what Cardinal 85 noticed for me to correct. He says semi-championship, but we also have Semi for State. So would Semi-Regional be the more proper term?
I believe he follows coastal bend teams, wow, by name interesting, but he might be one of those past rgv alumni... he was also talking about harlingen.
Hey NFC do you know who Native Texan is. I was just kidding on the Native Texan vs. PI? He left message to calm it down. I was just playing due ti his unorthodox predictions which I felt he was also playing. He knows who I am. He called me by last name. Is he part of this forum?
NFC pretty quiet this week on the game. How are the coaches and players doing to prepare for RH. Hope new looks and strategies come into the picture.
OH! No wonder he is very proud. I should have not said anything. Is he pretty young? Thanks for letting me know, I will know how to handle this from here on unless he gets out of hand.
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The data is bad enough. The comments ... [sigh] at times, I think I should just ignore the comments.
Umm… at this point both creationism and (macro)evolutionism are BELIEFS. I slip a "macro" in there because adaptation is obviously a fact and is quite different from the changing of an animal from one kind of animal into another.
Until there is CONCRETE proof that one type of animal evolved into another, completely different kind of animal, creationists will exist. There are too many missing links to straight up say that creationists are DUMB.
Like this one... where do they get this idea??? Barton toying with evolution as well as history??? I really don't see anyone, anywhere positing that a bird turned into a dog, or a fish turned into a mammoth... so where the hell is this coming from?
But I can't straight up call them DUMB? Okay what about straight up STUPID? They've even been provided with easy to follow examples, complete with pictures and flashcards and he still says they need concrete proof of one animal evolving into something completely different... why didn't all the apes evolve? I hear that one all the time... obviously some of them didn't!!! Oy Vey, my head! My apologies to any apes I may have offended!
I've probably said this a dozen times one way or the other: if there was some unseen, external influence on the process of human evolution, there should have been evidence of the nature of that influence. Yet we see none.
Anyone wanna suggest why? Oh, and those who say that "god moves in mysterious ways" get an F for the day!
The sampling is terribly small so I won't put too much stock in the graph, however the news here this morning on channel 11 WTVD showed a graph of those who believe in Creationism, showing the polling at 46% of Americans yada yada and so on and so forth, on the MORNING NEWS!!! I didn't see the Gallup Poll sampling information mentioned at all, of course I was trying to reach the remote to change the damn channel, so I probably missed that part.... yeah...as if it's likely they were honest....
Okay I went and checked, I think they're citing the exact same poll even though the graphs are completely different in style.... what was the Pew Research poll concerning the same issue I wonder....
Hehe, sorry I just had to!
OMG LOL he and I need to talk about that book, when again was it sir that 'light' came into the picture? Genesis says 'we created them' - who is this 'we' they speak of again? I shouldn't laugh but Wow! the stupid it burns!
Heh, can you smell the smoke from North Carolina?
Can you send ammo and rations, we're surrounded!
LOL I still love the line, I think it was comedian Bill Hicks, he said "The Christians will claim the fossils were put here to test our faith." - and he said something like, "and you were put here to test mine!"
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