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Land-use plan is disemboweled
Kalispell, Mont. - Over the breakfast special at the Outlaw Inn, Steve Herbaly reflected on the joys of his job as director of planning for Flathead County.
Only the night before, he and his staff had been called socialists, communists and general purveyors of the demise of America at a public hearing over the county's proposed new master plan. After one member of his staff and one member of the local planning board received death threats, Herbaly's department underwent bomb-scare training, and now it is considering purchasing bullet-proof vests.
"We're not very popular right now," says the bespectacled, soft-spoken Herbaly. That's an understatement: Since the county government voted last month to approve the new master plan, which recommends planning, zoning and land-use strategies, the opposition has grown in size and fervor.
One local group has filed a lawsuit to invalidate the plan and initiated an effort to recall the county commissioners. A countywide movement is also under way, gathering signatures to force a referendum on the plan's adoption. In this otherwise peaceful-looking scenic valley south of Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana, some citizens are forming militias just in case "government gets out of hand."
It wasn't always this way. In fact, recent planning efforts in Flathead County had a stellar beginning. Two years ago, a survey indicated that more than 90 percent of county residents supported controlling or directing growth and development. As recently as a year ago, The Wall Street Journal heralded a newly formed citizen's planning coalition with the headline: "Montana Entrepreneurs, Environmentalists Join Hands."
But what was until recently touted as the "Flathead solution" has become what appears to be the Flathead dissolution, as warring factions of the community grow increasingly hostile and hyperbolic, and as some planning advocates genuinely fear for their safety.
Boom spawns a plan
Under Montana state law, all counties must adopt master land-use plans. If there is one county that needs it, it's Flathead. With such draws as Big Mountain ski area - the largest in the state - Tahoe-sized Flathead Lake, the Bob Marshall Wilderness and alluring small towns such as Whitefish, Kalispell and Columbia Falls, the county has become a magnet for newcomers, retirees and second-home buyers. In the last decade, Flathead County's population has grown 14 percent, compared to the state average of 1.4 percent.
Since 1990, construction requests have doubled in the Connecticut-sized county. Schools are crowded, and rubber-stamped subdivisions are replacing agricultural lands at an alarming rate. Property taxes have skyrocketed, with some lakeshore properties increasing by as much as 300 percent, says local planning board chairman Bill Dakin.
"We realized our prosperity was based on quality of life," says Dakin, a real estate agent, "and that that quality was threatened by a total vacuum of planning and zoning."
So in 1992, a diverse group of citizens formed a coalition to write a new county master plan - the policy document used by local officials to guide development, set regulations and make land-use decisions. Flathead County already had a plan, but it was out-of-date and inadequate to cope with the current growth onslaught.
In a remarkable show of support, the new citizens' group, called the Cooperative Planning Coalition (CPC), raised half a million dollars, mostly from local landowners. With assent from the local government, CPC hired a professional planning team, Aspen-based Design Workshop, to write the county plan.
Building local consensus on the new plan was a paramount concern. To ensure widespread participation, CPC and Design Workshop held more than 250 public meetings over a two-year period. Local real estate agents signed on, as did ranchers, environmentalists and even Plum Creek Timber Co., the county's largest employer and landowner.
The grass-roots planning document took shape, encompassing everything from encouraging protection of agricultural lands and open space to recommending that large subdivisions be subject to strict, consistent review and provide impact fees to help fund roads, sewers and schools.
A right-wing hijack
As the flesh-and-bone plan gained momentum, so did an emerging opposition. Residents not involved in the early stages have begun to fight the document; others got cold feet. Now they seek to throw out the entire document through a referendum, and they might succeed.
In an indication of county sentiment, anti-plan candidate Robert Watne beat pro-plan David Mason by a wide margin in November's county commission election.
"People came here to get away from zoning," says Chris Brown, chairwoman of Montanans for Property Rights, a newly formed group. "Who has the right to tell somebody who pays taxes what they can and can't do with their lands?"
In an effort to appease plan critics, the county agreed in early December to a non-binding, "advisory" referendum during the general election in the spring of 1996. Planner Herbaly says that will give his staff time to get out, educate the public, and conduct small, neighborhood-by-neighborhood meetings to tailor the master plan to the needs of different areas.
But Brown doesn't want to wait. By 1996, she argues, land-use regulations may already be in place. "A year and a half is too far away," says Brown, who will continue to gather signatures in the hope of forcing a special election. "It will be brought to a vote a lot earlier."
Meanwhile, the once-progressive plan has undergone deep surgery. What was a detailed 86-page draft is now a milquetoast 17-page final version, devoid of any implementation or enforcement mechanisms. Gone, for example, are Design Workshop's suggestions for watershed and ecosystem management.
"It's the incredible shrinking master plan," observes Roger Sullivan, a Kalispell attorney and planning advocate.
The recent spate of attacks on the plan has left supporters scratching their heads, wondering where all this opposition came from after two years of public meetings and relatively smooth sailing. Now that the document may be overturned, or at least ignored, some wonder if the money for outside consultants was well-spent.
"We could have done this for a fifth the price," says Tom Jentz, assistant planner for the county. But there's no question the services provided by the consultants, including extensive high-tech geological mapping, would have taxed the small local staff and taken much longer. And, concedes Jentz, the opposition would have been there just the same.
"Are there things we would have done differently? Yes," says Design Workshop consultant Deanna Snyder. "We should have done more publicity, more education, sought out opponents from the beginning. We knew there was a somewhat controversial political climate, but didn't realize to what extent."
Whether seeking the input of the most radical opponents would have prevented the current clash is a matter of debate. But observers say poor timing is part of the problem.
As the last election made clear, anti-government, anti-regulation sentiment appears stronger than anyone predicted. The Brady Bill, which requires a waiting period for the purchase of handguns, became law last November, and fed Montana's conservative backlash, as did the prospect of a Clinton health care plan and increasing restrictions on logging in national forests.
"Local land-use planning is taking the brunt of general dissatisfaction with national forest policies and national taxes," says Jentz.
But for many in the Flathead, the final straw may have been the county's new building permit regulations, which required a small fee and a permit for new structures or major additions to commercial or residential lots. Although entirely separate from the master plan, the move seemed to confirm suspicions that planning would mean more bureaucracy, fees and regulations.
In an unexpected fervor of opposition, Flathead organizers gathered nearly 10,000 signatures to bring the measure to ballot. In a special election last August, the permit regulations were overturned by a whopping 6-to-1 margin, according to County Commissioner Sharon Stratton.
"There has been a groundswell of anger since the building permits," says Stratton, a Democrat. "A lot of the fury over that was based on misinformation about fees and regulations."
Outside heavies weigh in
Stratton blames right-wing organizers for spreading false rumors and fanning the fires for a revolt against planning and government. "A few agitators have recently moved to the valley," she says. "Everything seemed to be going along smoothly and all of a sudden there are all these new fears planted in people."
One of the newcomers singled out by Stratton and others is Jess Quinn, a former car salesman and high-tech entrepeneur who recently moved to the area from Idaho. What is most disconcerting, say Quinn's critics, is his ability to bridge moderate and extreme ideologies. In addition to helping lead the popular building permit revolt, Quinn is also active in efforts to form a militia in Flathead County.
A frequent guest on local talk-radio, Quinn says the county master plan represents a small step in a grand governmental scheme: a deliberate shift toward socialism, erosion of personal constitutional liberty and the decay of the American way of life.
To much applause at the recent Kalispell hearing, Quinn made himself clear: "We want to be self-governing so we can become self-sovereign. Now we're going to defend what we have."
Another key Flathead agitator is John Stokes, perhaps best known for leading the effort to secede a new "Freedom County" from Snohomish County in Washington (HCN, 9/5/94). He moved to Bigfork, Mont., last year, and has been actively fighting the Flathead's proposed master plan. "I came here to escape government regulation," he says. "Planning is pure socialism."
It's hard to gauge the influence of Quinn and Stokes, but there is no question their messages have reached many people. Notes Tom Power, an economist at the University of Montana and a resident of conservative Ravalli County, south of Missoula: "There is a self-selection process that brings many people to the non-urban West. These are people with an ideological predisposition who are most vulnerable to independence, anti-government and property rights slogans."
Flathead not alone
As far as the emergence of a volatile and threatening radical right, the Flathead is hardly alone.
In Ravalli County, which is also writing a new planning and land-use document and where 20 ultra-right-wing constitutionalists recently published a notice of "emancipation" from the federal government, county officials had to pass an ordinance banning weapons in public meetings. Officials in Butte/Silverbow County did the same.
Not every opponent of planning is a militia-linked sympathizer; most are simply rural conservatives. But as more bridges form between right-wing extremists and more moderate conservative interests, there is increasing cause for alarm, says Flathead planner Herbaly. "What's breaking down is civilized, functional debate. Some of these people say they don't have to play by anyone's rules, that they can kill agents of the system. Once it gets to that level of fantasy, it's just too much."
An example of the increasing coziness between such groups can be found in the October newsletter of the National Federal Lands Conference, a Utah-based wise-use group that encourages counties to pass ordinances that codify the supremacy of local government over federal land agencies (HCN, 2/24/92). The front-page article argues "Why there is a need for the militia in America."
At the recent hearing in Kalispell before the local planning board, members of a newly formed citizen militia sat in attendance. One organizer distributed a flyer stating that community planning is "a socialist plan to enslave us ... and take over our property in the process." Announced car-wash owner Jack Paulson of Bigfork: "If I'm not allowed to vote on the destiny of my property, I'm going to be one unhappy José. I'll have no choice but to join a group and defend myself."
Such rhetoric, while mostly dismissed as hyperbole, has no doubt sent a small chill down the spine of local officials. Furthermore, it has effectively dampened momentum for community planning across Montana. At a public meeting in Helena last month, where officials presented a plan for emergency zoning measures to check lakeshore and hillside development, the crowd went wild.
"A lot of intimidating remarks were made to the planning board, staff and supporters," observed Alan McCormick, assistant planner for Lewis and Clark County. "Supporters felt they couldn't speak out. There was no free speech at that meeting. The planning board was quite intimidated and made a recommendation to table the measure indefinitely," he added.
Planning, like gun control, abortion and gay rights, has become a magnet for gadflies of the radical right. "Land-use planning is the next wave, the new central forum for recruitment and hate-stirring by fringe groups," says Ken Toole, director of the Helena-based Montana Human Rights Network. "What's at stake is nothing less than democratic process."
One of the problems with the far right, says Toole, is that it's hard to compromise with them, and furthermore, when you do, you're giving credence to their anarchist, religionist or constitutionalist leanings.
"The political center of the West seems to be moving right," he says. "It's not just planning that is at risk, but public education and progressive institutions in general."
Others say education and compromise with opponents are the only ways to prevent a planning impasse. The planning process in Flathead County, lengthy and inclusive as it has been, may have happened too fast, says Marty Zeller, one of the Design Workshop consultants. "Even though there were endless public meetings, there probably wasn't enough time to educate everybody, to take them from a 19th century Wild West attitude about planning to a 20th century system of land-use management," he says.
In the meantime, other Montana counties, struggling with master planning, have found in the Flathead a cautionary tale. "We're taking our time," says Tim Schwecke, planning director in Ravalli County. "We're going real slow."
In an effort to bring the far right into the process early, officials in Ravalli have appointed a diverse citizen board to review a draft of the local master plan. Seated on the committee are members of the groups We the People and Friends of the Constitution, organizations which endorse militias and tax evasion.
"It was our hope that we could have a meeting of the minds, find some common ground," says Schwecke.
Have they?
Well, not yet, Schwecke concedes. "We will get a plan of some type," he adds. "I'm not sure what it will look like, but we will get something."
Florence Williams free-lances from Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
A sidebar article, What to do when opposition to planning turns ugly, accompanies this story.


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Hello all,
I just created a website posting maths/logical puzzles. These puzzles can be very tricky and were a fun thing for me to find. I want to share them with the community. This forum could be used to discuss the solutions/ideas. I will be adding new puzzles from time to time. Check it out:
FreeThinkingForAll Maths Puzzles
enjoy and give me your feedback!
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Hi bilalbadawi;
Nice problems, some of them I have seen before. I will not say which in case they pop up over here. Anyway, I like what you have done and are doing very much.
As a dear maths professor once taught me, "the aim of an exercise is to think about it, not to solve it"
That statement sure made me think. When working the motto is the exact opposite. "Do not think about the problem just solve it!" I was thinking how can can anyone ever reconcile these two thoughts?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
Thanks Bobby. Some of the problems are classics indeed, but it is good to have all nice puzzles gathered in one place.
I think that the two paradigms are complementary: mathematics, brainteasers and puzzles are an essential ingredient in the thought honing process of a human being. They teach us how to structure our thought and construct scenarios from simple incremental steps. This is why, when lifting these "brain weights" the aim is to lift the weights(thinking) and not know how much the weight weighs(know the solution). However, when encountering problems in real life, the aim is to get things done. If the problem has been solved before, do not think much about it and be philosophical, just find your way through. When encountering a new problem which hasn't been solved before, this is where ingenuity and creativity kicks in and this is where your maths education pays off.
my 2 cents,
Hi Bilal;
No argument there. I am glad to see that people are beginning to understand that math is all about problem solving. I had to live through an entire era of the arcane theorem provers.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
tHaNk YoU So MuCh
are there the solutions ?
"2-Hell VS Heaven (*)" could be hard, if a person just doesn't think exactly how to word the question. Once the right question is realized, then it seems too simple.
Correct? That was a neat puzzle. It might be as easy, or as hard, for a middle school student to answer it as for a much older adult to answer it. Either way, I still thought that it was a good puzzle.
@Fermat'S: Anytime :-D. As explained in the home section, no solutions are provided. If you give enough thoughts to a puzzle and feel you are stuck, I am happy to give a hint or check your solution...
@byronjordan: It's a nice puzzle indeed and you nailed it :-) if you have knowledge of logic circuits finding the puzzle would become much easier. But you are right, if the person asked has no logic circuit knowledge, age doesn't matter... good luck with the other ones
Thanks. I was discussing that very problem with someone else and I think we found a more concise, but perhaps more subtle, way to explain it than the way I explained it before.
That's the solution I know. But the solution you gave is more intuitive, although longer to explain. From a pedagogical perspective, I prefer the first solution you gave. Esthetically, the second solution is better. Cheers!
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Even though we had some rough losses (lost Miami by a half point, Philly blew a late 10 point lead) we had another week above .500, so that's nice.
Week 6 was unreal, underdogs performed unbelievably well, going 12-2 against the spread, including five road underdogs that won straight up (Giants, Packers, Bills, Lions, Broncos). Well, this week, I'm leaning to the favorites. After I made all my picks I went back and realized that I'm going with eight favorites, and four underdogs this week. Underdogs in 2012 are 57-32-2 against the spread, which is a very impressive number, and while I don't really follow trends that much maybe we'll see an adjustment this week and favorites will do a little better. I can only hope.
There's a very good slate of games in Week 7,including Jets at Patriots, Ravens at Texans, Redskins at Giants and it all ends with an NFC North battle, Lions at Bears on Monday Night.
Stay in the loop. I usually tweet out some picks on Sunday morning, so follow me on Twitter @Fantasource to get the latest.
Let's try to keep this train rolling with another winning week…
Last Week: 7-6
Season Record: 37-31-1
Sunday, Oct. 21
Tennessee Titans at Buffalo Bills (-3 1/2, O/U 46)
What we have here is a battle of two very bad defenses. They are the bottom two teams in points per game (Buffalo: 32 ppg, Tennessee: 34 ppg) and both teams are giving up 420 yards per game in total offense. So how do you handicap this one?
Both teams are coming in off of impressive wins, Tennessee knocked off Pittsburgh at home and the Bills went out to Arizona and got an overtime win against the Cardinals.
I'm going with the Bills in this one. Tennessee is 0-3 on the road, losing by an average of 25 points per game and the only way for them to get a win is if Chris Johnson can take advantage of a terrible Buffalo rush defense and he just might. But I think Ryan Fitzpatrick and the two headed RB monster of Fred Jackson and CJ Spiller will be too much for the Titans.
Pick: Bills -3 1/2
Arizona Cardinals at Minnesota Vikings (-6, O/U 40)
I think the Cardinals have hit the wall. Such a great start to the season, jumping out to 4-0, with wins over the Eagles and Patriots. And then… losing two in a row. Not just losing two in a row, but losing ugly in St. Louis and then dropping an overtime loss to a bad Buffalo team.
And now they go to Minnesota. If you've read the column you know that I am on the Vikings bandwagon. I like the offense (yes, I am #TeamPonder) and I think the Vikings will be able to handle the Cardinals this week. I'd lay the six points and I even think the Vikings will win by double digits.
The Cardinals might be without QB Kevin Kolb (as of this writing he was questionable to play), so John Skelton could get the nod. Either way I think the Vikings defense will shut down the struggling Cardinals offense and Christian Ponder and the Vikes offense will be able to score enough at home to get the win and the cover and move to 5-2.
Pick: Vikings -6
Cleveland Browns at Indianapolis Colts (-2 1/2, O/U 45)
Ok Browns, you got your first win, now here come five losses in a row.
Cleveland was impressive last week against the rival Bengals, pulling off the 34-24 win at home. But I don't think they can do it again. Browns RB Trent Richardson is hurt and might not play this week, and if he does he won't be 100%. He is a huge part of the Browns offense. The Colts weakness is the rush defense, well the entire defense in general is suspect but the rush D is their weakest spot and without a healthy Richardson to take advantage of that matchup I don't think the Browns will be able to keep up with Andrew Luck and the Colts.
The Colts have played well at home, 2-1 with wins over Green Bay and Minnesota. I'll look past last week's ugly loss to the Jets and say that the Colts rebound at home and knock off the Browns.
Pick: Colts -2 1/2
Baltimore Ravens at Houston Texans (-6 1/2, O/U 48)
With all due respect to the Jets/Patriots and Giants/Redskins games, this is the game of the week. Houston was rolling along at 6-0 until last week when they hit the Green Bay brick wall. Wow. Houston was on the losing end of a 42-24 blowout at home.
I like the Ravens in this one. I know everyone is expecting a bounce back game from the Texans but I think the Ravens offense should be able to move the ball, maybe not as easily as the Packers did, but they should be able to put up some points. The loss of LB Brian Cushing might have a bigger impact on the Houston defense than everyone may have expected.
Yes, the Ravens lost Ray Lewis last week and that will definitely be an issue for them. But I expect this to be a high scoring game and I'll take the points.
Pick: Ravens +6 1/2
Green Bay Packers at St. Louis Rams (+5, O/U 45 1/2)
The Packers just smoked the previously undefeated Texans, in Houston, by 18 points. And now they are only laying 5 points at St. Louis?
The Rams defense is good. But are they good enough to shut down the Packers offense? The St. Louis defense will have to be sharp this week because the St Louis offense is horrible. The Rams offense has been held to an average of 14 points per game the past 4 weeks. That's not going to be enough to beat the Packers and their improved defense.
After a rough start to the season it sure looks like the Packers offense is clicking lately, putting up almost 30 points per game the past four games. And I think they will be able to score on this tough Rams defense. I'll lay the five points on the road.
Pick: Packers -5
Dallas Cowboys at Carolina Panthers (+2, O/U 46)
The Cowboys had a heartbreaker last week in Baltimore. Dallas was down 2 with 30 seconds left, ball on the 34 yard line going in. But clock mismanagement and a missed field goal sent them home with a loss. Ouch.
But now they get to redeem themselves against a struggling Panthers team. Carolina is 1-4 and coming off the bye week they are looking to get back on track. And guess what, I like the Panthers.
Dallas has given up 27 or more points in three of it's last four games. I expect the Panthers to be able to move the ball against the Dallas defense. Dallas will probably be without RB DeMarco Murray, so that will hurt it's running game. Felix Jones is a serviceable backup but Murray was the #1 guy.
I expect the Panthers come back strong at home, utilize their RBs (Williams and Stewart) and get a win at home, and Dallas HC Jason Garrett's hot seat gets even hotter.
Pick: Panthers +2
Washington Redskins at New York Giants (-5 1/2, O/U 50)
All aboard the Robert Griffin Express. I'm driving. Wow, RGIII really got it done last week in a huge win over Minnesota. Maybe the Redskins have turned the corner on the season.
I know the Giants just blew the doors off of the 49ers in San Francisco, but I like the Redskins in this one. Yes, the Redskins have the worst pass defense in the league (328 yards per game), and I know this is a big NFC East rivalry game but the Giants are coming off a huge win against the 49ers, and have to go to Dallas next week for a rematch against the Cowboys. I think this is a spot where the Giants might come up flat. It should be a high scoring game and I'll take the Redskins (and RGIII) and the points.
Pick: Redskins +5 1/2
New Orleans Saints at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (+3, O/U 49)
Here's a little secret for you, Tampa's defense is very good. They aren't talked about as one of the top defenses in the league, but they are pretty good. And the Saints come in as the polar opposite. The New Orleans defense stinks (even Saints fans will agree with this).
I think the Bucs offense will be able to move the ball against a porous Saints defense, especially on the ground. New Orleans is surrendering 172 yards rushing per game, so I expect the Bucs to just give it to LeGarrette Blount and Doug Martin. I know Drew Brees will be throwing all day for the Saints, but I just think the Bucs are the better team, they are at home, and they are getting points. I'll say that Tampa pulls the upset as home underdogs.
Pick: Buccaneers +3
New York Jets at New England Patriots (-10, O/U 47)
So Jets coach Rex Ryan was running his mouth earlier this week about the Patriots, "'I want them to know that I think we're going to beat them." Um, ok Rex. Vegas made you 10 point underdogs, so you're the only one who thinks that you're going to win.
This is the perfect storm for the Patriots, coming off a brutal loss in Seattle, they head home to face a division rival who really isn't that good but who won't stop talking about how they are going to win the game.
The Patriots weakness is their defense, but Sanchez doesn't scare me. Throw out the stats, just give me Tom Brady and Bill Belichick coming home off of an ugly road loss. Rex Ryan's smack talk is going to backfire. I'll take the Patriots and lay the double digits.
Pick: Patriots -10
Jacksonville Jaguars at Oakland Raiders (-4, O/U 44)
This one is easy for me. I'm not taking the Jaguars on the road. No way.
I know that the Raiders are nothing special either, but I'll take my chances with Carson Palmer at home. Oakland showed some fight last week at Atlanta and now they head home for their first home game in 4 weeks. I expect them to bounce back from the Falcons loss and take advantage of a Jaguars team that has only scored 10 or more points once in their last 4 games.
I'm thinking something like 30-17 Raiders in this one.
Pick: Raiders -4
Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals (+1 1/2, O/U 45 1/2)
Pittsburgh is a Jekyll and Hyde team, 2-0 at home, 0-3 on the road. And last week they went down to Tennessee and got beat by a pretty bad Titans team. But this week I think they break that road losing streak and get the win, and cover, on the road.
Cincinnati had their own issues last week at Cleveland, falling apart in the 2nd half and losing 34-24.
The Pittsburgh offense will have to get it done in the air, since both Steeler RBs are injured (Mendenhall and Redman) but I expect Ben to take advantage of the weak Bengals pass D and lead the Steelers to victory.
Pick: Steelers -1 1/2
Monday, Oct. 22
Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears (-6, O/U 47)
I watched the Lions play last week and based on that performance, I am taking the Bears. The Lions went to Philly and beat the Eagles but they looked very sloppy in the process. I don't think it was the Lions winning as much as it was the Eagles giving the game away.
And for Chicago, after that debacle in Green Bay a few weeks ago the Bears have really turned things around. Three straight wins have moved them into first place in the NFC North. The Lions on the other hand are playing their fourth road game in five weeks, and this time it's a Monday Night matchup in Soldier Field.
The Bears at home, on Monday Night, coming off of a bye week? I'll lay the 6 points because the Bears defense is on such a roll right now they could very well shut out the Lions.
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The annual Conqueroo/Guitartown party held at Mother Egan's, one of several kickoff parties held Wednesday, the first day of the music portion of SXSW, boasted a roots oriented lineup and a convention of friends who see each other but once or twice a year.
Early afternoon portion of the event that stretched from noon until 9:30 PM featured primarily singer-songwriters.
First highlight of the day: James McMurtry. The Texas poet proceeded in workmanlike fashion through four crunching tunes, three from his forthcoming release, "Just Us Kids". Following some brief political commentary from McMurtry on the resignation of Admiral Fallon over differences on Iran, the band launched into "Cheney's Toy", this record's follow-up to McMurtry's award- winning tune, "We Can't Make It Here".
Chris Stamey, the North Carolina based purveyor of melodic pop tunes, fronted the Chapel Hill based band, Ceremony, for an uplifting set. Tom Freund, with the renowned drummer, Michael Jerome (Richard Thompson), displayed his songwriting skills and offered a couple of new tunes from his soon to be released CD produced by Ben Harper.
Shawn Mullins, from Atlanta, performed solo and offered four mostly infectious, melodic tunes mixed with a two politically charged tunes.
When Austin-based Jon Dee Graham hit the stage, the crowd began to reach for their ear plugs and admire his incendiary guitar solos. SXSW 2008 was underway.


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Hollywood event icon Debbie Durkin hosted the "Rockn Rolla" MTV Movie Awards Eco Lounge presented by Gibson Guitar to benefit Music Saves Lives®. The interactive daytime event, in celebration of the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, pampered guests with eco-luxury lifestyle brands and services at the breathtaking historic Pickford Mansion where the Oscar-winning Best Picture "The Artist" was filmed.
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DJ Spark kept the vibe flowing with cool beats in between musical performances by Poor Man's Poison, Of Verona, The Command Sisters, The Samuel Smith Band, Pablo Blaqk, Beverly Staunton, Nick Kai, Kim DiVine, Elle Gie & Burning Slow, Yvonne Larson, Echosmith, Todd O, Zac Callison & Delirium, Xander Smith, Bad Suns, John Tatum, and spoken word from the WOW Youth Poetry Collective (WYPC).
As always, Debbie Durkin's event was teeming with celebrity turn-out; guests included GG ("Shahs of Sunset"), Steve-O, former NBA champion John Salley, Neal McDonough ("Justified"), Shaun Robinson ("Access Hollywood"), former NFL champion Willie Gault (Chicago Bears), US Olympic Medalists Genai Kerr and Omar Amir, Chad Wolf (Carolina Liar), Shaun Toub ("Iron Man"), Penny Davidi-Borsuk ("Chopped" All-Star), Timothy Simons ("VEEP"), Matchmaker Chelsea Autumn, Chef Bernie Guzman ("Housewives of Beverly Hills"), Maria Conchita Alonzo ("Predator 2"), Duncan Penn ("Buried Life"), Wes Ramsey ("CSI: Miami"), Erin Murphy ("Bewitched"), Alex Boling ("Suburgatory"), Alice Amter ("The Big Bang Theory"), Austin Anderson ("Victorious"), Barbara Alyn Woods ("One Tree Hill"), Candace Bailey ("Attack of the Show"), Ryan Boone, Vincent Martella ("Phineas & Herb"), Isabella Barrett ("Toddlers & Tiaras"), Ralph Rieckerman (The Scorpions), Richard Portnow ("Hitchcock"), Ashlee Holmes ("Real Housewives of New Jersey"), Kristen Ruhl ("She Wants Me") and Chase Masterson ("R.U.R.")
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House of Minerva is a hot ticket with the MTV set, featuring sustainable gifts with handcrafted designs for women/children, as well as adorable makeup bags, aprons, guitar straps and more – all made from vintage fabric.
South of the Border Catering
Guests were treated to an all American sustainable BBQ from Chef Len and South of the Border Catering…delish!
Agave Underground Tequila – www.agaveunderground.com/
Signature cocktails from Agave Underground Tequila were a welcome treat in the gorgeous, sunny heat.
Dirtee Hollywood – www.dirteehollywood.com
Celebs grabbed up lifestyle tees from Dirtee Hollywood.
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Natural hair growth inhibitor systems from Dominic Diselle make it easy to manscape or womanscape.
EpicSUP – www.epicsup.com
Handmade eco products were onhand from EpicSUP, the world's first full scale eco surfboard production facility.
House of Marley – www.houseofmarley.com
Hip, lightweight headphones from House of Marley were a popular item at Durkin's suite, with new models coming out this summer.
The Lace Project – www.thelaceproject.com
Vintage, glamour, one-of-a-kind jewelry was onhand from The Lace Project.
Odina Surfwear – www.odinasurfwear.com
Odina Surfwear showed off their line of environmentally friendly swimwear and gifted chic bracelets for men and women.
Oxy Water TM – www.tryoxywater.com/
Oxy Water TM, a hot new oxygenated mineral water, was a must-stop at the suite. Celebs came back for more, due to its sparkling taste and healthy ingredients, as well as the friendly smiles of its creators.
Socially Sweet Events – www.sociallysweetevents.com
Stars feasted on mini cupcakes and cookies from Socially Sweet Events – tasty visions, perfect for any occasion.
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Svala Lingerie was present to show its stylish, sustainably produced loungewear/sleepwear.
Swyt – www.swytculture.com
Celebs had their pick of adorable modern ballerina flats from Swyt.
T's Organic Hot Sauce – www.organichotsauce.com
Refreshing taste from Bloody Mary Mix and hot sauces from T's Organic Hot Sauce cooled down the hot summer afternoon.
Vine Street Market USA – www.vinestreetmarketusa.com
Eco bags from Vine Street Market USA are sure to be in high demand, especially due to the new laws banning plastic and paper bags from grocery stores. Chic, sustainable fashion!
Music Saves Lives® - www.musicsaveslives.org
Music Saves Lives is the bridge between music, entertainment and important life-saving causes. We bring a simple concept: connect the music and entertainment to a lifesaving community action, such as blood donation and the bone marrow registry. We educate about the importance of simple, life saving actions, which audience members can participate in. Donating blood, running a blood drive, and registering for the marrow program to save those with leukemia, all connect back to the community. As a recognized 501(c) organization we have grown from our home base in Southern California, launching at "Eco Hideaway" Music Saves Lives, to a worldwide presence. "Saving Lives Has Never Sounded So Good™!"
The event was also sponsored by sustainable printer Kijani Banners and featured vegan smoothie mixes from MyVega. Additionally, some celebs enjoyed healing massages from LA's Neckwork Expert, Absolute Vital Care Bodyworks, eyebrow styling and makeup artistry from Stefanie G Fine Cosmetics of Beverly Hills, Spenglish hot lifestyle tees for both men & women, Minky Couture luxurious blankets, totebags from Bling is the New Black, and trips from Miami Escapes, which will be giving away a four night Miami Escapes Weekend stay at Five Star Island, the private villa of south beach mogul Thomas Kramer. The lucky winner and guest will receive a stretch limo pick up courtesy of Coastal Car Limo and dinner for two at one of Villa Azur, one of Miami's hottest restaurants, as well as a complimentary water sports excursion.
Durkin Entertainment is an indie TV/Film production and Entertainment Marketing company specializing in TV/Film/Celebrity product placement. Credits: K-11, The Expendables, ECO Hollywood TV Special (KCBS-LA), EXTRA! CW Network, The A-List, NBC TODAY Show, Daytime Fox News, Chelsea Lately, Two Jacks, Bonnie Hunt TV Show, Blades of Glory, Rocky Balboa, National Lampoon's Cattle Call, LAPD Hollenback, Happy Planet documentary, Walk A Mile in My Pradas, Living With Ed on HGTV-Planet Green, LA Ink, Celebuzz, The Sexiest Women of Reality TV & Calendar, Los Angeles Confidential Magazine, 944 Magazine, Kevin Sorbo's Celebrity Golf Tournament, IFQ Magazine, and Sundance Celebrity Swag Hunt.
Well, loved by both celebs and leading fashion trendsetters, Debbie Durkin, is LA's leading sustainable producer. She produces a series of Main Event Red Carpet Lounges & Green Suites each year; events take place during Sundance, Green Grammys, Eco Oscars, Eco Hollywood Earth Day, MTV Movie Awards ECO Lounge, and Eco Emmys, with each lounge benefiting worthy charities. For additional information stay tuned for the launch of Durkin's new website in summer 2012: www.durkinentertainmentgroup.com
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When the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like It Hot," or "2001: A Space Odyssey"? Or of acting performances such as Charlie Chaplin's sublime Tramp in "City Lights"?
The omissions of Graham Greene's "The Third Man" as a best original screenplay nominee or Alfred Hitchcock as best director for "Vertigo" or "Notorious" should alone be enough for a scandal. For anyone who feels, like director Spike Lee (for "Do the Right Thing"), they were robbed, there's a ready answer: You have lots of company. Why gripe, when we know that the Oscars tend to ignore certain kinds of movies (popular genre movies) and certain kinds of performances (funny ones)?
But there's always a consolation. Great movies outlast any award slights, and history almost always settles all accounts. To mark the 75th Academy Awards ceremony March 23, here are 75 of Oscar's most outrageous snubs.
75. "Touch of Evil" (Orson Welles, 1958) The pinnacle of film noir from Welles, Oscar's most unjustly neglected subject.
74. "King Kong" (Ernest Schoedsack-Merian Cooper, 1932-33) The Great Ape in the granddaddy of all special-effects classics.
73. Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson (adapted screenplay) for "Paths of Glory" (1957) An annihilating anti-war script.
72. Bob Dylan (song) for "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" from "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973) Dylan's mournful cowboy blues underscored Slim Pickens' death scene.
71. "Three Colors: (Blue), White, Red" (foreign language film) (Poland, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) Two Kieslowski "Colors" were eligible in '94; neither made the cut.
70. "The Wedding March" (Erich Von Stroheim, 1928-29) Hollywood's intransigent master in his last hurrah.
69. James Cagney (actor) for "White Heat" (1949) Cagney's psychopathic gangster Cody Jarrett: "Top of the world, Ma!"
68. "Morocco" (Josef von Sternberg, 1930-31) Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper in the classic French Foreign Legion desert romance.
67. "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (Robert Hamer, 1950) Witty comedy of murder, with Alec Guinness' multiple tour de force as the victims.
66. Gordon Willis (cinematographer) for "The Godfather I" and "II" (1972 and 1974) Two darkly lit photographic masterpieces ignored by nominators.
65. "Brief Encounter" (David Lean, 1946) Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in writer Noel Coward's much-loved thwarted romance.
64. Jack Lemmon (actor) for "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1992) One of David Mamet's cutthroat salesmen: one of Lemmon's three favorite roles.
63. "Belle du Jour" (foreign language film) (France, Luis Bunuel, 1968) Catherine Deneuve as the sublime housewife-hooker in Bunuel's fable.
62. Peter Sellers (supporting actor) in "Lolita" (1962) As Vladimir Nabokov's chameleonic sybarite writer Clare Quilty, Sellers hits his peak.
61. George and Ira Gershwin (best song) for "A Foggy Day" (1937) This classic and other great standards by Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Kern etc, were beaten by "Sweet Leilani!"
60. Buster Keaton (actor) in "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (1928-29) The Great Stone Face in one of his stoic silent comedy gems.
59. Bette Davis (actress) for "Of Human Bondage" (1934) Next year, an embarrassed academy gave Bette one she didn't deserve.
58. Fritz Lang (director) for "Fury" (1936) The master of paranoia puts Spencer Tracy and capital punishment through hell.
57. Gilbert Taylor (cinematographer) for "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) They also missed him for another '64 gem: "A Hard Day's Night."
56. Vittorio Storaro (cinematographer) for "Last Tango in Paris" (1973) The cinematographer's cinematographer was actually beaten out that year by "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
55. Robert Walker (supporting actor) "Strangers on a Train" (1951) The classic murder-swap Hitchcock villain: that very clever fellow, Bruno Anthony.
54. "La Dolce Vita" (foreign language film) (Italy, Federico Fellini, 1960) Fellini's modern epic of jet-set decadence, with Marcello Mastroianni as journalist/witness.
53. "Blue Velvet" (David Lynch, 1986) The creepiest of all Lynch nightmares, with also-neglected Dennis Hopper as the breather.
52. Harold Pinter (adapted screenplay) for "The Go-Between" (1971) Period romance with Julie Christie: one of Pinter's finest writing efforts.
51. Jason Robards (supporting actor) for "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (1962) Nobody played O'Neill like Robards; here, his alcoholic Jamie Tyrone blisters the screen.
50. "Mean Streets" (Martin Scorsese, 1973) The Little Italy anthem starring Harvey Keitel (above): Scorsese's favorite of his films
49. Robert Mitchum (actor) for "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Classic Mitchum: the murderous preacher with the "LOVE"/"HATE" knuckle tattoos.
48. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (Philip Kaufman, 1988) Heart-breaking romantic/political drama from Milan Kundera's novel.
47. Robert Duvall (actor) for "Tomorrow" (1972) Duvall's favorite role, the Mississippi Good Samaritan of William Faulkner's story.
46. "Little Big Man" (Arthur Penn, 1970) The hip comic western with Dustin Hoffman as liar-adventurer Jack Crabb.
45. "Hoop Dreams" (documentary) (Steve James, 1994) This deliberate oversight created a scandal and led to voting reforms.
44. Judy Garland (actress) for "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) That year, she got a special miniature Juvenile Oscar; she deserved more.
43. "Faces" (John Cassavetes,1968) In Europe, Cassavetes is counted a master; this superreal gem on L.A. malaise shows why.
42. "Duck Soup" (Leo McCarey, 1932-33) The great mad war comedy that both voters and the '30s audience ignored.
41. "Meet Me in St. Louis" (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) Judy Garland (above), Margaret O'Brien and supreme American nostalgia.
40. James Dean (actor) for "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) Nominated that year for "Giant," but this is the role that sealed his legend.
39. "A.I." (Steven Spielberg, 2001) The dark fantasy of a robot child, from Stanley Kubrick's dream project.
38. "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (Max Ophuls, 1948) The great neglected Hollywood romance from Stefan Zweig's novel, by continental master Ophuls.
37. "Once Upon a Time in America" (Sergio Leone, 1984) Leone's baroque crime epic of New York's Jewish gangs, with Robert De Niro.
36. John Wayne (actor) for "The Searchers" (1956) One of the most influential of all American movies and roles: vengeful wanderer Ethan Edwards.
35. "Brazil" (Terry Gilliam, 1985) The Orwellian nightmare comedy saved from Universal mutilation by the L.A. Film Critics.
34. Katharine Hepburn (actress) for "Adam's Rib" (1950) Dueling wedded lawyers: Hepburn and Tracy's top matchup.
33. "The African Queen" (John Huston, 1951) Bogey and Hepburn in Africa: the legendary Hollywood romance-adventure.
32 "Malcolm X" (Spike Lee, 1992) The alternative African-American epic, with Denzel Washington as Malcolm.
31. Preston Sturges (original screenplay) for "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) Sturges' testament: the defense of clowns by Hollywood idealist-laughmaker Sullivan (Joel McCrea).
30. "Short Cuts" (Robert Altman, 1993) Raymond Carver's short stories become Altman's ultimate ensemble film.
29. "Splendor in the Grass" (Elia Kazan, 1961) Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in the teen romance that still breaks hearts.
28. Spike Lee (director) for "Do the Right Thing" (1989) A Brooklyn street explodes on the summer's hottest day; Lee's testament.
27. John Lennon & Paul McCartney (best song) for the score of "A Hard Day's Night." Which sounds better: these songs or '64 winner "Chim Chim Cheree?"
26. Ernst Lubitsch (director) for "Trouble in Paradise" (1932-33) High-style comedy master Lubitsch loved best this tale of stealing jewels and hearts.
25. "Rear Window" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Hitchcock's classic of voyeurism and suspense, with James Stewart and Grace Kelly (above) peeping.
24. "Red River" (Howard Hawks, 1948) The top cattle-drive western, with John Wayne, from Hollywood's great pro Hawks.
23. "Persona" (foreign language film) (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman, 1966) The '60s supreme art film from the 20th Century's most personal filmmaker.
22. Anna Magnani (actress) for "The Golden Coach" (1952) Italy's greatest film actress guided by Jean Renoir in a commedia dell'arte masterpiece.
21. Steven Spielberg (director) for "Jaws" (1975) It was a very good year, but they should have nominated The Kid anyway.
20. "Manhattan" (Woody Allen, 1979) Woody's valentine, back in his heyday, to the borough he loves best.
19. "Seven Samurai" (foreign language film) (Japan, Akira Kurosawa, 1956) The greatest battle film, with Toshiro Mifune and the rest of the Magnificent Seven.
18. Humphrey Bogart (actor) for "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) Film noir's hero as Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade: the role that made him Bogey.
17. Martin Scorsese (director) for "Taxi Driver" (1976) '70s alienation and violence; the film was named, but Scorsese wasn't.
16. Jean Renoir (director) for "Grand Illusion" (1938) Renoir's anti-war classic was nominated that year; its maker wasn't.
15. "Blowup" (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) Photographs, reality and swinging London: Antonioni's classic statement on appearances and morality.
14. "Days of Heaven" (Terrence Malick, 1978) Beautiful and tragic: an alternative epic love poem of America's lost souls.
13. "The Wild Bunch" (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) The epic western and bloody masterpiece, full of shocks and melancholy.
12. Orson Welles (director) for "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942) One of two nonpareil achievements by Welles in his 20s (with Joseph Cotten, above); the other was "Citizen Kane."
11. Bernard Herrmann (composer) for "Vertigo" (1958) The musician of anxiety also was not nominated for "Psycho" (1960), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942).
10. Howard Hawks (director) for "His Girl Friday" (1940) The "Front Page" classic by the all-genre pro unnominated for "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), "To Have and Have Not" (1944) and "Rio Bravo" (1959).
9. Sergei Prokofiev (composer) for "Ivan the Terrible" (1947) Probably the best classical film score ever, from Sergei Eisenstein's brilliant collaborator.
8. Graham Greene (original screenplay) for "The Third Man" (1950) Vienna, Welles, Joseph Cotten and post-war intrigue -- and Greene's original script is unsurpassed.
7. Alfred Hitchcock (director) for "Vertigo" (1958) James Stewart loses Kim Novak twice: like "Notorious" and "North by Northwest," another non-nominated Hitchcock triumph.
6. Charles Chaplin (actor) in "City Lights" (1931) He made us laugh; he made us cry. Never more than here.
5. "Some Like It Hot" (Billy Wilder, 1959) Nobody's perfect -- but in this comedy Wilder, Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis come close.
4. "The Searchers" (John Ford, 1956) The story of America and the prisoners of the desert: Ford's masterpiece.
3. "Singin' in the Rain" (Gene Kelly-Stanley Donen, 1952) The comic angst of the talkie era: Hollywood's best musical, Kelly's best dance.
2. "Psycho" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) The Bates Motel, the height of terror. The film that Hitch says "belongs to filmmakers."
1. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) Visionary science fiction: the space epic that went many steps beyond.
Source: "Inside Oscar," Ballantine Books (1996). Dates listed reflect year movie or performance was eligible for nomination.


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Think of it as closing your eyes tight, then rubbing them with the palms of your hands and immediately opening them. All the squiggles and flashing is sort-of like what you will experience inside the Mercedes-Benz booth in Paris this fall; except with more color and less headaches.
Debuting at the 2012 Paris Motor Show (27 September - 14 October), Mercedes-Benz will be showcasing their life-size relief-like sculpture of the new S-Class. Highlighted by major design lines of the silhouette, the sculpture is hit with a barrage of projections that observers will witness design features of the car morph before their eyes. Creating a unique design experience for every interaction.
"The characteristic lines of the S-Class have always represented the expression of automotive culture, as we understand it. The new S-Class will continue this tradition and, with its striking lines, will put a face to our design philosophy over the coming years," explains Gorden Wagener, Head of Design at Mercedes-Benz Cars.


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Microsoft Files Antitrust Case Against Google in EU
Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission, insisting that arch-rival Google's competitive practices unfairly dominate the European search market.
"We're concerned by a broadening pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative," Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior vice president and general counsel, wrote in a March 30 statement posted on the Microsoft on the Issues blog. "We've therefore decided to join a large and growing number of companies registering their concerns about the European search market."
Smith then unleashes a litany of complaints against Google: that the company restricts other search engines from properly cataloging YouTube videos in search results, that it prevents those YouTube videos from running well on Windows Phones, that it blocks access to book publishers' content, that it restricts advertisers' access to their own data.
"Advertising revenue is the economic propellant fueling the billions of dollars needed for ongoing search investments," he wrote. "By reducing competitors' ability to attract advertising revenue, this restriction strikes at the heart of a competitive market."
Microsoft also claims that Google "contractually blocks leading Websites in Europe from distributing competing search boxes," and that it "discriminates" against competitors by ratcheting up the price for prominent placement in Google advertisements.
This represents Microsoft's first-ever antitrust filing with the European Commission. It comes as something of an irony, considering how that same regulatory body pursued Microsoft for years over the supposed anti-competitive practices related to Internet Explorer. Under pressure, Microsoft eventually released a "Web browser choice screen" designed to give Windows users in the European Union a selection of browsers other than IE.
Google already had a response to Microsoft's filing.
For more, read the eWEEK article: Microsoft Fires EU Antitrust Complaint Against Google.
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This lady is so ridiculous! The Christmas part is the best. Poor kid.
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In Germany, baby Jesus brings presents on xmas eve (on his way to his birth?) and Santa comes on Dec 6 with his mean friend Krampus that'll kick your a$# if you were naughty. Nowadays the funnest thing everyone tries to do is get drunk and slightly beaten by someone dressed as Krampus.
This video would be simply hilarious if it was satire. My money is on the mom either becoming an atheist too or going even crazier in old age.
This is by far the best explenation I have heard to explain this ladies actions after finding out her son is an Atheist.
That was a cool explanation. I'm going to have to watch more of that guy's videos.
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I have a loyal reader who would send me emails once in a while.
A few months ago, she shared with me a recipe.
She told me that she used my choux pastry/pate a choux recipe and turned it into an easy dessert by using ice cream.
Yes, as I mentioned in the post, choux pastry is very versatile, it can be made into cream puffs, gougères (cheese puffs), nun's farts (by deep-frying), éclair (oblong and filled with cream), and ice cream dessert!
Today, I am going to show you how to make profiterole by using the same choux pastry recipe.
Profiterole is basically choux pastry, sliced into half, and filled with whipped cream, pastry cream, or ice cream.
Ice cream filled profiteroles are especially popular in the US.
With the end of summer just around the corner, I decided to make profiteroles with ice cream and topped with chocolate sauce and some ground peanuts.
Such combinations will please everyone, even the picky eaters and toddlers, I promise.
For the chocolate sauce recipe, I turned to my friend's the Sophisticated Gourmet.
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If you don't have time to make everything from scratch, then you can always buy off-the-shelf chocolate sauce.
When you have a good ice cream stuffed in between airy, eggy, and crusty choux pastry, no one would notice that you didn't make the chocolate sauce from scratch!
What I love most about this recipe is that I can just choose my favorite flavor of ice cream and indulge, while taking in the final weeks of sunshine, warm breeze, and the lingering smells of summer BBQ.
Enjoy these profiteroles with ice cream and chocolate sauce while you can.
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Music Guest of Honor: Tom Rockwell a.k.a. Devo Spice
Devo Spice is a nerdcore and comedy rapper from New Jersey who has been called "the red-headed stepson of Weird Al Yankovic and Eminem." His demented brand of hip hop has made him one of the most popular artists on the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show. Devo Spice founded the comedy rap group Sudden Death whose songs "Cellular Degeneration", "Getting Old Sucks" and "Pillagers" were the numbers 1, 2, and 4 most requested songs on Dr. Demento in 2007. In 2009 Devo Spice's song "Platform Wars" which parodies Apple's I'm A Mac commercials was the 4th most requested song of the year.
Devo Spice performs regularly across the country at music clubs, comedy clubs, and science fiction conventions. He has shared the stage with Dr. Demento, MC Lars, MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and many others. The live show features videos and animations synchronized with the music resulting in a hilarious show that goes over very well with a variety of audiences.
Sudden Death broke onto the scene in 2002 when their song Dead Rappers became a hit on the Dr. Demento Show. Devo Spice also teamed up with The Great Luke Ski that year on Luke's song Peter Parker which went on to become the most requested song of the year. In 2003 Sudden Death hit it big on Dr. Demento with Ozzman, a backhanded tribute to the Prince Of F'ing Darkness.
2005 was a breakthrough year for Sudden Death on Dr. Demento when they had 2 songs in the top 10 at the end of the year with Spam at #10 and Inner Voice at #1. Then in 2007 Sudden Death produced a constant stream of hits on the show resulting in his songs ending up #1, #2, and #4 most requested songs of the year. Devo Spice also appeared as a guest vocalist on the #5 most requested song of the year.
In 2007 Sudden Death became a Core member of The Funny Music Project, or The FuMP (http://www.thefump.com) which releases 2 songs every week for free under a Creative Commons license. Devo Spice continues to release new songs there as they are completed.
In 2008 Sudden Death released their third album which was titled Fatal Error. The album featured the songs mentioned above plus other hilarious original songs and parodies. It was considered for a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album in the fall of 2008.
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Beasts & Barbarians actual play: session 2
The story starts where the previous session ended. Doris, Falchor and Godzul have been jailed for drunken hooliganism, and Tereis had been carousing elsewhere, surprisingly having not got into this big trouble. This shows an excellent example of how after adventure partying can set up the next adventure!


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Eight U.S. Exchange Program Alumni Making a Difference in the World
By Carlyn Messinger on January 20, 2017
This month, Forbes published its annual 30 Under 30 recognizing bright young entrepreneurs, breakout talent, and change agents in 20 different professional sectors. Seven of these leaders studied abroad on State Department exchange programs early in their careers. These experiences shaped their identities and in many cases motivated them to become leaders and thinkers in the United States and around the world.
Exchange programs support U.S. international leadership and motivate participants to pursue important fields, like health and entrepreneurship. For example, Emilia Javorsky, a Fulbright Student to the European Union in 2012, was recognized for her work as a Physician-Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital where she worked to develop a method for freezing fat anywhere in the body, with potential to treat conditions like sleep apnea and type 2 diabetes. Emilia felt that her Fulbright Program, "…was transformative in helping me realize that after medical school I wanted to work on a macro level to transform the way we innovate in medicine."
Evin Robinson participated in Syracuse University's study abroad program in Hong Kong as a Gilman Scholar in the fall of 2011, where he focused on business and Mandarin. Three years later, he co-founded New York On Tech to create pathways for underrepresented students into degrees and careers in tech.
Following their experiences abroad exchange program alumni continue to develop new skills that build U.S. and international security, prosperity, and cooperation. Noam Angrist, a Fulbright Student to Botswana 2013, co-founded Young 1ove in Botswana during his Fulbright to teach students about sex education and HIV/AIDS. Lexie Komisar, who studied public health in Mexico on a Fulbright in 2009, is a founding member of IBM's Digital Innovation Lab. And Alaa Murabit, who participated in the Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Program in 2013, is now the only United Nations (UN) high level commissioner under the age 45.
Forbes recognized three more U.S. Fulbright Student alumni who are demonstrating leadership in their respective fields. Gloria Tavera studied in Mexico in 2009 and is now a founding member and current president of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Adina Appelbaum studied in Egypt in 2010 and created Crim-Imm Pro Bono Project to increase access to criminal immigration legal counsel in the United States, and Anna Therese Day, who studied in Spain in 2013, is a founding member of Frontline Freelance Register.
These State Department exchange program alumni are part of a network that is over one million strong worldwide. Each year, approximately 14,000 Americans join the network, traveling on programs that range from high school study abroad to Professional Fellows. They tell us they return home with new ideas and perspectives, and pursue careers in the business, NGO, or government sectors as a result of their exchanges. These exchange alumni are addressing challenges that range from broadening access to education to countering violent extremism. Likewise, international exchange participants pursue similar opportunities after they return home.
We always look forward to what the members of the State Department exchange program alumni network will accomplish next. Check out their stories on the ECA Alumni Twitter, Facebook, and website.
About the Author: Carlyn Messinger is an Alumni Records Specialist for Alumni Affairs within the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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demconnect needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
DemConnect is a consulting company focused on online constituent outreach efforts from government agencies, officials, and candidates. We are looking for a logo for the second in our suite of products, DemPages. DemPages is an online directory providing contact and information for various users of social media. Think of like the ultimate online phone book for social media information.
We work with local, state, and federal agencies, offices, and individuals serving in public office. We also serve candidates running for office or those seeking an appointed position.
This logo should reflect the nature of the site being launched. Keywords would be: government, people, online, social media, and directory. The logo should work well with our company logo (attached). While our company logo has a more corporate feel, we're open to things that go beyond this traditional look. Our company's primary color is a deep blue (something around: #013277) -- you're welcome to use this as your primary color but we're open to other colors that would invite the types of keywords listed above. The text of the logo should work be "DemPages." The logo should include some type of icon as an element to accompany the text. This icon will be used for avatars and other online promotions, so it should size well as a standalone (i.e. it should have equal height/width dimensions). Attached is also our company logo (DemConnect) and one of our product logos (DemTweet). Again, we're open to new ideas, so it's not necessary to use a 'd' with some type of icon inside it (though we do enjoy that look, obviously).
Winner should be prepared to submit:
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We will provide tons of feedback and rate all logos submitted. Please ask us questions and we look forward to working with you now and in the future!
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Zonya's Health Bites
In Zonya's Health Bites, personal wellness coach Zonya Foco offers realistic lifestyle solutions for managing weight, improving health, creating balance and maximizing energy for the whole family. In each episode, Zonya tackles everyday problems in the kitchen, grocery store and exercise room. She cracks the code on confusing food labels to find the healthiest and best choices in every aisle of the supermarket in "Zonya's Grocery Picks." In "Power Habit," Zonya delivers key points for helping people adopt one good habit at a time. In "Lickety-Split Cooking," the bestselling cookbook author creates healthier alternatives to high-calorie family favorites. She shows parents how to prevent and combat childhood obesity with "Junior Bites" and covers quick and easy workouts, from simple exercises to yoga, in the "Fitness" segment.
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What Color Is On Your Plate?
Episode #303 · Let Zonya show you how you can eat a rainbow of colors the HEALTHY and NATURAL way in the produce aisle. Zonya's one-dish Mediterranean-inspired Ratatouille is not only easy to make, it showcases all the colors of the rainbow featuring eggplant, tomatoes, peppers and squash that pack a powerful punch against cancer and heart disease.
Sucker-Proofing Your Pantry
Episode #306 · Learn how to sucker-proof your pantry by using half the sugar, reducing the fat to nearly nothing and still enjoying delicious Enlightened Zucchini Bread and Banana Bread your family will love. Zonya teaches you how to balance the right carbs and right fats while lowering your calories so you can eat healthy every day without getting suckered into an all-or-nothing diet mentality.
Lowering Your Blood Pressure The Natural Way
Episode #308 · Learn how to lower your blood pressure in lickety-split time without medication as Zonya takes you through an entire day of super-charged meals and snacks that focus on decreasing your sodium while increasing your calcium, potassium and magnesium. From delicious morning smoothies to dinnertime Chili Cornbread Pie, you'll be amazed how delicious a full day of Zonya's prescriptions can taste.
Hearty Meals on a Skimpy Budget
Episode #311 · You can serve your family supercharged meals even on the tightest budget when you follow Zonya's high-value, low-cost tour in the grocery store and treat them to her Lentil Spinach Soup and Oven-Baked Lentils and Rice. These "lentilicious" meals are power-packed with more than 8 times the fiber while saving you nearly half the sodium than a typical hamburger/pasta casserole.
It's So Easy Being Green
Episode #312 · Zonya begs to differ from Kermit the Frog on just how easy it is being green, not to mention how important it is to get your greens. Serving delicious and nutritious main-course salads that satisfy the heartiest appetite starts with a close-up look at choosing healthy dressings then moves to the kitchen for Zonya's Southwestern Grilled Chicken Salad and Raspberry Walnut Spinach Salad that make it soooo easy being green.


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American citizenship, granted and denied
We know that our immigrant ancestors became U.S. citizens, but what was the process? I found a report of a session of Naturalization Court held in 1919 in rural northern Kansas, while I was looking through old newspapers for information about my relatives who lived in the area. My German great-grandparents, immigrants to America in the 1880s, probably went through similar court appearances during their efforts to become citizens.
I was afraid it might be a copyright violation to reprint the entire article, so I wrote a summary of the facts in it.
On November 10, 1919, a Naturalization Court was held in Republic County, Kansas. District Judge Hogin was assisted by Examiner C. A. Ramsey of Kansas City. Fourteen applicants for American citizenship attended the court, but only three were successful in acquiring citizenship: Henry Skucius of Belleville, Kansas, and James Nordquist and Axel Johansson, both of Agenda, Kansas.
There is no mention of any women among the citizenship applicants; apparently all fourteen were men.
Of the three successful applicants, two of them got new names along with their citizenship papers.
Mr. Nordquist's old country name was Jons Nordqvist and the court at his request, on his petitioning for the second time under his true old country name, changed it to James Nordquist as he wished.
This was also Mr. Johansson's second trial at citizenship and the court changed his name to Axel J. Smith, by which name he has been known for many years. So many men in his home community by the name of Johansson caused confusion in getting mail and the like was the reason he preferred to be known by the name of Smith.
Some cases were continued because the applicants had not yet mastered the English language. Other cases were continued because the U.S. had recently been at war with the native countries of the applicants, and thus, special releases were needed (and not yet received) from the War Department. One case was dismissed at the request of the applicant, a pastor who had moved to another state.
|1920s: A Turkish immigrant celebrates his
newly-acquired American citizenship.
Image from Wikimedia.
The judge and the examiner dismissed the application of another immigrant, Frank Hostinsky, because one of his witnesses had been in the Army in France for the last five years. Mr. Hostinsky was instructed to reapply with new witnesses at the next court (May 17, 1920.)
Examiner Ramsey and Judge Hogin urged the unsuccessful applicants to attend the Naturalization Schools offered twice a week in two locations in Republic County. At these schools provided by the Naturalization Department, the applicants could receive instruction, free of charge, in the English language and in principles of American government.
Source: Cuba Daylight of Cuba, Kansas (which was published in Belleville, Kansas, "in the interests of Cuba and vicinity"), December 5, 1919. Page 1, column 3. Located via the Digital Archives of the Belleville Public Library.
|Victor Serrao, American citizen, June 24th, 1929.
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|Immigrants taking the U.S. citizenship oath, 1925
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