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"Hey, hey let's be careful out there," is one of my all-time favorite television lines. It came from the early 1980s television drama series "Hill Street Blues."
University of California Cooperative Extension long-time Farm Advisor Bob Beede only slightly resembles the character Sgt. Phil Esterhaus played by actor Mike Conrad on Hill Street who immortalized the statement in every opening scene of the series.
There is some resemblance between the good police sergeant and Beede. Both have receding hairlines. End of resemblance.
Nevertheless, Beede reminded me of that television sergeant in delivering a similar admonition recently at a grower/PCA meeting in Selma, Calif.
"Take care of yourself this year," chided Beede in a good imitation of the concerned police sergeant at the opening of his presentation.
The growing season ahead will be a stressful one for most in agriculture.
Tumbling commodity prices, several far below what was predicted just a few months ago, have growers in shock.
In several cases, falling prices have not necessarily been caused by big increases in supply or drop in demand. The world financial crisis is having a huge negative impact psychologically on people. It is like the world has become a giant turtle, its head pulled in, refusing to come out regardless of the enticement put in front of it. People are buying very little, only what they need today.
Certainly there are valid economic factors for the financial morass, but it seems as though it is being made worst by fear and disengagement.
Not only is farming in a downward spiral, but everyone's retirement funds — including farm families — have been all but obliterated, adding to the stress.
The financial crisis is being exasperated by the third year of a natural California drought compounded by a judicial drought giving water to fish before people. Farmers do not like droughts, but they can understand and deal with them far better than they can understand fish taking away their ability to produce food for a hungry world.
It is not just the inability to farm, but farmers and ag supplier businesses have had to lay off workers, no doubt in some cases trusted employees whose families they value as much as their own.
Tragically, there is not much anyone seems to be able to do to turn it around right now. In many areas, farming is becoming a candidate for a television survivor series.
"Sgt." Beede says to survive 2009 — back off when stress starts to overwhelm. Get away from it on a regular basis. Make time for yourself, especially when the stress becomes great.
Leave the stress in the pickup seat when you go home. Don't take it out on your spouse and kids. Don't kick the dog or cat. They did not cause the stress.
Don't take it out on your neighbors, suppliers and contractors. They are in the same boat. Take them for coffee and talk about something other than farming.
And most of all, "Take care of yourself out there."


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By Joe Webb
Stroud News and Journal
February 17, 2013
[Gloucestershire, England] – A dream has come true for young dancer Samuel Banks after landing two roles with a professional ballet company.
Samuel, 10, a pupil at Eastington Primary School, will star in the English Youth Ballet's production of The Sleeping Beauty after successfully auditioning alongside the region's most talented dancers.
He will take to the stage at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-Super-Mare and will perform the roles of a charm dancer and Hop O My Thumb as part of a young cast of 81 dancers for three performances in March.
Samuel, who lives in Stonehouse with his mum Claire, dad Matt and older sister Eleanor, 13, said: "I'm really excited as it will be the biggest stage I have ever performed on. The rehearsals have been going well and I'm really looking forward to playing the parts."
Samuel, who attends ballet, tap and jazz classes at the Sally Prout School of Dancing, is currently taking part in a 10-day intensive rehearsal process in preparation for the show.
His mum Claire said: "He loves dancing, he is always leaping and twirling around the house. There is a lot of driving taking him to and from all his dance lessons and rehearsals but it will be worth it seeing him perform with the English Youth Ballet. It is a great opportunity for him."
The Sleeping Beauty is on Friday, March 8, at 7.30pm, and Saturday, March 9, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. To book tickets call the box office on 01934 645544.
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Twenty hours after Joe Lieberman sustained one of the most stunning jolts of his political career - word that Al Gore would endorse rival Howard Dean - the Connecticut senator appears relaxed, determined, and his genial old self.
"See, I told you we'd make some news for you," he says, smiling wryly as he puts his hand on a reporter's shoulder after a press conference at a local restaurant.
The former vice presidential candidate then walks to a waiting television camera and begins the mantra that he will repeat, with only slight variations, dozens of times during the next 24 hours when the Gore endorsement is raised. It is a nuanced and calculated reaction that encapsulates the moderate Democrat's experience, temperament, and political savvy.
It is clear that Lieberman has been hurt, politically and personally, by Gore's failure to reach him before the news was leaked. Lieberman, known for his civility, speaks without a trace of anger. But in what many see as a sign of his political acuity, he's also capitalized on the sympathy inspired by Gore's handling of the affair - though it's been clear since the two ran together that they disagree on many issues.
"I was surprised because I heard it from the media, and I was surprised because I hadn't heard from him," he says (though several reports indicated that Gore had, in fact, tried to reach Lieberman several times in advance of his endorsement - but never got through). "I was surprised," he continues, clearly comfortable in the glare of the klieg lights, "because he's endorsing someone whose positions on defense, on trade, on middle-class tax cuts, are so different from the positions that Al Gore has taken over the years, and dramatically different from Bill Clinton's positions throughout the 1990s."
Whether a fair assessment or not, Joseph Lieberman - son of immigrants, first in his family to go to college (Yale, at that), and first Jew to run for vice president - makes it sound true. In the past week, playing on momentum generated by his national exposure as "slighted former running mate," he's sharpened his attacks on Dean in an effort to pull away from the pack. Lieberman has called him "Dr. No," charged that Saddam Hussein would still be in power if Dean had his way, and lashed out at him as fiscally irresponsible (though Dean is known as a fiscal conservative who made balanced budgets a top priority as governor.)
Despite those attacks and a sense of momentum, Lieberman continues to languish in polls. The latest survey from New Hampshire places him fourth, with 7 percent of the vote, compared to Dean's first-place 46 percent. Nationally, Lieberman does slightly better, at 13 percent - but that's still less than half the support Dean has. But Lieberman, a skilled politician, says he remains undaunted: The fight is just another step in a long, familiar road.
He was elected to the state senate just three years after law school, and his long career of political triumphs, policy fights, and thoughtful compromises have won him respect and affection in both Washington and Connecticut.
But since a young, idealistic Joe Lieberman marched on Washington with Martin Luther King in 1963, he's become far more conservative than many Democrats, especially on issues of defense and foreign policy. And it's that, pundits say, that has hampered him in his presidential aspirations: This is an age when Democrats are angry, when many believe the election was stolen and the war in Iraq is immoral. And those voters are looking for a candidate who can give voice to that outrage, not one who has gone out of his way to support the American invasion, analysts say. Lieberman's second-tier showing has been indicative of that gulf of expectations - and indicative, too, of a campaign that foundered almost as soon as it began.
"Lieberman's problem is one of expectations," says Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. "As the vice presidential nominee in 2000, he should have been the clear front-runner from the start. But he just isn't selling this year. Democratic activists want a strong anti-Bush nominee; they want a nominee that preaches old-time religion, and that's not Lieberman."
Lieberman not only believes in the American dream; he says he's lived it on his journey from a middle-class neighborhood in Stamford, Conn., to the road to the White House.
Raised with his parents in the deeply religious, Orthodox home of his maternal grandmother, he was the adored eldest son. (A high school flame says that when he came down the stairs in the morning, his mother believed "God came down, too.") From an early age, he was inculcated with the Jewish ethic of tikkun olam - service to others as service to God. That helped him flourish. He was class president, prom king, a popular date. But he was also a dedicated student of his faith.
When Lieberman arrived at Yale in 1960, John Kennedy had just been elected, breaking a religious barrier and bringing a new sense of optimism - and somehow, Lieberman says, that "brought it all together and focused me on public service."
That focus was sharpened by his work in the civil rights movement. He marched with Martin Luther King and went to Mississippi to register black voters. "There was a real sense there you could make a difference," he says. "I watched the marches lead to the civil rights acts of the '60s and the change they brought. I'm sure that was a confirming experience that led me to run for office."
From the start, Lieberman has cut his own path in the public terrain. He's never been easy to categorize. (He says he's "independent minded.") He was an early supporter of the Vietnam War, just as he was of President Bush's invasion of Iraq. But he came to criticize the handling of both wars. Though an early advocate of gay rights, he opposes gay marriage. And he's fought as hard for the president's "faith based" initiatives as he has against his plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
He's as comfortable explaining his opposition to gay marriage to a teenaged daughter of two lesbians in New Hampshire (he calls it "a difficult issue that a lot of people are struggling with") as he is speaking to a crowd of Hispanic fundamentalist Christians in the Bronx.
In both cases, he invokes the name of God without a hint of self-consciousness. But it's in the Bronx, after being endorsed by an organization of Hispanic clergy, that his years of study of the Torah are most evident. Lines of scripture tumble off his tongue: " 'As for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord,' " he says, quoting Joshua's farewell oration to the children of Israel. Lieberman makes it clear that he's grateful for the endorsement because it represents not only "a lot of political power, but a lot of spiritual power as well. And 'From whence does my wealth and honor come? It comes from the Lord.' "
Some of Lieberman's own allies have attacked him for being too open about his faith in the public arena; critics have called him sanctimonious. (His reaction to the news that Hussein was captured: "Hallelujah, praise the Lord. This is something that I have been advocating and praying for for more than 12 years.") But he's never apologized for it, and says he's never been penalized for it. During the 2000 campaign, he says, he never experienced anti-Semitism.
To supporters, that independence is Lieberman's core strength: He knows himself well. "More than any of the other Democratic candidates, he's really comfortable in his own skin," says Katrina Swett, one of his campaign's national cochairs. "He shares that with both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. It's delightful to hear him crack jokes because he finds them genuinely amusing."
That humor is never far from the surface. After a grueling morning, beginning with two live TV interviews, a "meet and greet" at a local breakfast spot, a rock-star-like reception and Q & A at Concord High School, followed by a "press availability" and a "one on one" with a local television station - and constant calls between each event - the senator settles into the backseat of a red SUV, clearly exhausted. The first thing he does is take out his BlackBerry and scroll through his messages.
"That's nice. ''You are and have been in my thoughts,' " he quotes softly from an e-mail.
"From your wife?" a reporter asks.
"That wasn't my wife. I'm always in her thoughts," he says, then pauses. "I hope."
"Be careful; you just got a lot more interesting," his communications director, Jano Cabrera, pipes up.
Lieberman laughs delightedly.
Two days after the Gore announcement, Lieberman's message is clearer than ever. The setback is just a "turn" in "a long road," one that's "doubled my determination to fight for what's right for my party and right for my country. To me, the choice is clear now for the voters in these Democratic primaries," he continues. "Are we going to build on Bill Clinton's record and take our party and country forward, or are we going backward? And I would say, Howard Dean, and now Al Gore, they want to take the country back."
At Robin's Place, a restaurant filled with more Republicans than Democrats, Lieberman is back to the cajoling that's marked his career - reaching out to the other side in search of common ground.
He's as interested in what Republican voters Ralph and Barbara Smallidge think - they stuck around after their bacon and eggs when they heard he was coming - as he is in the thoughts of Charissa Koulovatas, an undecided registered Democratic who's a local waitress.
It's clear he's hoping to convince the Smallidges that he's the John McCain of 2004, the real independent who can unite the parties with integrity.
"Sure, I'm hoping for a little of that McCain magic dust," he admits. He settles into a seat at the counter by Ms. Koulovatas and almost tells her story for her: "You don't have health insurance, do you?"
"No, I don't."
"That's because where you work, they don't give it to you."
"No, they don't."
"And you can't afford it on your salary."
"No, I can't."
"So you're the classic case. This is an outrage. While you're working your way up to something better, the country should give you a hand." The young woman nods, says she'll check out his plan online. The two shake hands.
He moves on to a nearby table, but Koulovatas remains undecided. "I tend not to trust politicians," she says dryly. "But he seems like a nice enough guy."
Lieberman is unruffled: He's done his best. It doesn't bother him that the pundits say he's far too moderate and mild for today's Democrats. In fact, he considers that moderation his greatest strength. "It takes more than anger to be a good president," he says. "It takes strength of character."
And he insists, even now, that the race is wide open: "The real guy who's leading in the polls is a guy named 'Undecided,' '' he likes to say. He's banking on New Hampshire voters to prove his point. Lieberman and his wife are even moving here for the month to ensure that voters don't forget him. "People in New Hampshire ... love to knock down the predictions of the pundits and the pollsters," he says. "So I love this state. Every day I go at it with a real sense of optimism that I can make my case - that I'm the president they need to make this country safe."


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Hot Springs Two-Day Tour – Spa Vacations in the Natural State
Hot Springs literally sprang to life in a Ouachita Mountains valley containing a remarkable array of 47 thermal springs. The town has long been and remains Arkansas's top tourist destination, and for good reason. Its topflight attractions include Hot Springs National Park with its famed Bath House Row and thermal baths, live and simulcast thoroughbred racing, Magic Springs/Crystal Falls theme and water parks, the 210-acre Garvan Woodland Gardens, a renowned arts community, and the Mid America Science Museum. Other attractions include music, magic, religious and trained animal shows, lake tours and more. Shopping opportunities, including antiques, abound in the Spa City, as do options for lodging.
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Depart Little Rock via Interstate 30, heading southwest towards Texarkana, to Exit 111. Take U.S. 70, southwest to Hot Springs. Recommended activities in downtown Hot Springs:
- The Arlington Hotel's charms include an on-premise Bath House that provides thermal bathing in the naturally heated waters from Hot Springs National Park and massages, a mountainside hot tub, twin heated swimming pools, restaurants and a lobby bar backed by a large jungle-motif mural. Reservations should be made in advance for baths and massages.
- Immediately south of the Arlington, the famed Bath House Row of Hot Springs National Park stands on the east side of Central. The Fordyce Bath House is home to the park's visitors center, where an orientation film and exhibits tell the story of the geological wonder of the springs and the history of the town and its bathing industry. The Buckstaff Bath House offers thermal bathing and massages on the Row. Be sure to visit the mountainside cascade spring located just east of the Arlington. The historic Quapaw Bathhouse has been renovated and reopened as a complete spa facility, featuring the town's famous thermal waters.
- The park's Hot Springs Mountain Tower offers an exceptional view of the surrounding Ouachita Mountains. "Visiting Hot Springs and not taking a thermal bath is comparable to going to Redwood National Park and never looking up." – National Parks magazine 501-624-3383, ext. 640; www.nps.gov/hosp.
- Hot Springs has been ranked among the Top Ten of America's small towns with remarkable art communities (The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America). Stroll along downtown Central Ave. to visit one or more quality art galleries.
- Central Avenue also hosts fine dining opportunities.
Day 2
After breakfast and a leisurely departure from the hotel, follow Central Avenue south to its intersection with the U.S. 270 Bypass. Take U.S. 270 east to its first exit at Ark. 128 (Carpenter Dam Road). Take 128 to Arkridge Road and turn right, proceeding to Garvan Woodland Gardens. The 210-acre botanical garden on the shores of Lake Hamilton is being developed by the University of Arkansas. Its Garden of the Pine Wind features stream courses, waterfalls, Asian-inspired stone bridges and native and Asian plantings. Other Garvan features include a welcome center with gift shop, canopy bridge and bird sanctuary. 800-366-4664.
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I recently had the opportunity to tour Los Pastores coffee farm in Guatemala and see the devastation of coffee rust or Roya first hand. Roya is a parasitic leaf fungus that deprives the coffee plant of nutrients. Farmers in Guatemala are facing difficult choices that will impact production for years to come.
The most popular coffee varietals in the Antigua area of Guatemala are Bourbon, Caturra and Catuai. Bourbon is widely used due to its long production life, drought resistance and flavor characteristics. Unfortunately, Roya can be particularly devastating to Bourbon. Some farmers that grow Bourbon are replacing plants with Caturra or Catuai varietals that tend to be less impacted by Roya. Unfortunately, it takes about three years for these new plants to produce coffee. Another option is to treat the Bourbon plants with fungicide to control the Roya, prune and hope that they survive and produce coffee.
Anacaf , Guatemala's coffee association, estimates that coffee production will be down 40% due to Roya for the 2013/2014 growing season. Since coffee is the largest export in Guatemala, the Roya outbreak will greatly impact the economy. The next time I enjoy a Guatemalan coffee I'll think appreciate the hard work and tough choices that made it possible.
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Goessel — Martha (Bartel) Peters, 87, passed away December 4, 2012, at Bethesda Home, Goessel.
She was born June 24, 1925, to Peter and Anna Schmidt Bartel, in Hillsboro, KS. On October 21, 1948, she married Ralph Peters, he passed away on May 15, 2002.
Survivors include her three children: Rodney (Linda) Peters of Hillsboro, Delbert (Janine) Peters of Hillsboro, Norma (Philip) Duerksen of Orrville, OH, 5 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren, 1 sister, Linda (Milton) Goertzen of Goessel, 2 sister-in-laws, Elda Bartel of Goessel, and Amanda Bartel of Wichita.
Martha was the ninth of ten children in the family of Peter and Anna Schmidt Bartel. Martha was a lifelong member of the Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church near Goessel. After farming for many years Ralph and Martha made their home at Bethesda in a duplex and later became residents at Bethesda Home, Goessel.
The family will greet friends and family from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, December 7, 2012, at the Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, 1304 K-15 Hwy near Goessel. Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 8, 2012, at Alexanderwohl Cemetery with a Memorial Service to follow at 3 p.m. Saturday, December 8, 2012 at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, with Pastors Linda Ewert and Steve Schmidt officiating.
Memorials may be sent to either Bethesda Home or Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, in care of Miller-Ott Funeral Home, 303 E. Main St., Goessel, KS.
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Goessel — Martha (Bartel) Peters, 87, passed away December 4, 2012, at Bethesda Home, Goessel.


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Joe Malinowski wrote:Did I read that right Ed is coming to Va. ???? Oh boy Boss and Ed this is gonna be fun. Even if he is a donut snatchin varment it will be good to increase the contingent of my fellow countrymen. Two Poles from New England, Boss gonna need donuts.
Joe, BRING DONUTS! and DON"T LICK 'EM! Ed


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STRATIS, a large division of L-3 Communications, is going back to college, having signed partnership agreements with the advanced research laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland, the company announced April 4.
As a result, L-3 STRATIS will pursue technology research and development projects aimed at enhancing complex computing capabilities for government and commercial clients at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , known as CSAIL, is MIT's largest independent laboratory and one of the world's most important centers of IT research. The lab and its members have played a huge role in the technology revolution of the past 50 years.
Founded in 1983, Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction lab's faculty, staff and students have been leading the way in HCI research and teaching.
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What is this you ask? Do randoms just send you packages from the good of their heart or have you paid for this lucky dip service? Well it's a bit of both really. Let's start at the beginning - the scheme is called Foodie Penpals and in the UK it's organised by a lovely lady called Carol Ann. I'd come across the scheme after some Twitter activity lead me to reading the Rock Salt blog and thought it sounded right up my street as a) I like food b) Like surprises and c) I love writing letters, I'm a bit old fashioned like that.
The concept is thus: you sign up and each month Carol Ann does lots of jiggery pokery and emails out a spreadsheet. On this sheet you're assigned someone to send a package to (and someone is assigned you - this changes every month), then you send them a box of foodie treats by the 20th of the month. The idea was originally started in America by the Lean Green Bean and has been running in the UK for a couple of months now - some of our European cousins have joined in too, so there's a good chance you'll get paired with someone a little further afield that down' th road, opening up all sorts of adventurous foodie possibilities.
Simples? Yes it is. There are a few stipulations such as you must get in touch with your assigned person within 72 hours and ask them some basics eg. are you allergic to anything and where do I send your treats - then it's up to you to go find some scrummy surprises for about £10, box 'em up and send them off.
Enough of the background, you can find more out using the links littered about this blog - back to my package and me, me, me - so what did I get? A lovely lady called Helen Costello who runs Aardvark Cakes in St Helens was assigned me and sent me the inspired gift of Prestat dark chocolate buttons, some fruit and nuts and the most amazing mini tagines for sauces and dips and... well whatever other amazing things I put in them. And just the colour for me too. Brilliant. I opened the chocolate immediately and the taste is heavenly; really rich and fruity. As it's in the form of thin buttons it's just enough chocolate to deal with cravings without being too much of a naughty treat.
Helen also wrote me a lovely note explaining her love of the 'dip dishes,' saying that she was thinking about buying some herself - I wonder if she did? They're an ace addition to the kitchen and have already come in handy loads. I can't wait to have people over and make them the focus of a dish. Helen's choice of notelet was also pretty spot on for me and pretty apt seeing as she makes cakes for a living: I'm obsessed with anything floral flavoured - not only is the picture of lavender cakes, but there's a recipe on the back too - can't wait to get baking!
So did I send anything? I'm a good girl so I did indeed - I was paired with Emily, aka Bristol Bites, the don of knowing what's good to eat down Bristol way. As she was down South I decided I'd send her some great local produce from Cheshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester; basically where I live, work and play. So what did I send? Well why not check out her post and see if you think if it I did us Northerners proud.
Sounds fun? Well why not get in on the action? All you need to do is submit the Foodie Penpals form on the Rock Salt blog or press the Foodie Penpals button in my side bar (eyes right) and get yourself registered - you don't have to be a blogger either. Who knows what will be winging its way to you next month? Well, that's all part of the fun!
Ps you can see what everyone else got here and if you live across the pond, then you can sign up to Foodie Penpals here.
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Nice portuguese, Branded!
Musashi:...You're not hiding a spear somewhere, are you?Inshun:No way. (hmph)
But again, it makes me wonder how this all fits in with the remainder of the series -- how we, as readers, are expected to take it. THE END of Vagabond? Even more a conclusion than the actual releases will prove to be?
PS:Seriously made me laugh
P.140Jōnosuke: This is my grandson. My wife... died this spring.She was eight years my senior...
As we both wondered, Jotaro with a wife eight years his senior... Otsu?
I'm open to ideas how to go about this and even requests.
Anyway, I'm going to post some pictures later to highlight some of those scenes and other important moments, or just some of the more amazing artwork
Oh my, I can't believe I just read that. Thanks so much for posting this here Griff, I didn't know you had it! I waited so long to read this, and it's better than I expected!
That would be unexpected. They had such a solid brother and sister relationship.
It just came in this morning, and I have you to thank again for this; I ordered the complete catalogue literally minutes after getting your original PM about the exhibition, I was that excited! I just kept it quiet in case something went wrong. Also, I can now vouch for the seller, he sent it, and in perfect condition, still in the shrink wrap and very well protected. I was impressed, the price is high, but at least I feel like I got what I paid for.
One word: puberty.
Yeah, I just don't don't know how good it's going to look with my camera. I tried photographing some Vagabond panels before and have had pretty mixed results, best you can expect is something like this or this. I'll experiment tonight.
Man, I'm glad you kept it to yourself. The surprise factor was pretty awesome just now, my blood pressure probably went down when I saw your post. Plus, with our lack of Vagabond and Berserk, it feels even fresher.
I'm glad it arrived safely, and that a true fan got his hands on such a limited piece.
Hahaha, yeah. But man, it's hard to imagine an Otsu that got over Takezo marrying the kid that idolized him.
Really, it's not so bad at all. Plus, an Inoue piece looks good even when it's a picture of a blurry TV screen displaying it, as we found out some posts earlier, right?
Yeah, I'm glad the way it worked out, especially since a couple of weeks ago I was wondering if it was even coming at all. Which reminds me, I need to leave that fellow feedback.
Thank you, I definitely felt like I needed it to complete my collection, right away it just seemed too special to let it pass. Even if I'm now in the awkward position of hoping my book doesn't become obsolete because Inoue augments the exhibit.
Another word: spinster!
Haha yes, and reviewing those pictures I took actually got my hopes up, since the catalogue is much larger and the artwork centered on the pages, making for easier photographing.
P. 186Kojiro:Are you ready?P.187Kojiro:Let's go.
This almost brought tears to my eyes. Please, do post these if you can, man.
Thanks Griff for posting this, it's pretty damn amazing to be actually reading this. I have to say though Jotaro and Otsu don't seem like the best match to me, I of course would love to see Otsu and Musashi together.
P.140Jōnosuke: This is my grandson. My wife... died this spring.She was eight years my senior...Grandson:He's asleep.Jōnosuke:Master.P.141Fūki:Master.Otsū:Takezo, are you all right?P.144Musashi:Yeah.P.145Musashi:I'm fine.
Haha, damn, that's awesome. I knew there was that "Sekishusai meets Musashi" kinda feeling when we saw Fūki and old man Musashi in those first pics.
Keep posting the ones you think are the most important, Griff. But how are we ever gonna thank you for all this?
I love that sketch, I didn't know there were sketches on the book as well, or was that on the exhibit walls too?
By the way, no Matahachi in the exhibit? Not even a little bit?
Just keep posting and let me know what you want to see. I'm trying not to repeat things we've already seen images of, and it's hard to actually share the most beautiful stuff, because you can't capture them, or really do any of it justice. These are photos of photos of art after all.
Strangely, not even a hint. Maybe that's why he's become such a prominent figure with Fūki in the series, and perhaps that means he and Musashi may yet make peace. Seemingly everyone else, dead or alive, came to make peace.
Alright. The ones I'd like to see the most are Baiken, Seijuro and Munisai's meeting with Musashi, but there are pictures of all of these on Halcyon Realms, so if you have any that isn't there (or can somehow provide a better photo of them, because Halcyon Realm's are kinda small and not really that focused on the drawings, but on the book itself), it'd be great. To be honest, I'd especially like to see this full image of Baiken (if it's the only one of him):
I hope they do make peace. It'd be so sad if both of them never met again because I think their friendship is such an important part of the series. Before I started posting here, I read that Matahachi thread Walter made, and I loved reading his analysis and yours, it really opened my eyes to him. I always saw him as a despicable vermin before that, denying any similarities we shared which, like you said, made me see that I am Matahachi after all. I reread many episodes featuring Matahachi after that thread, haha. And now, after we've seen his atonement, I hope he can finally meet Musashi without pretending to be somebody else, or without any bad feelings towards him.
Hahaha, nice pics of Musashi and Ueda. It's pretty interesting how Ueda really stole the spotlight of the Yoshioka, isn't it? Inoue really likes to focus on him instead of the brothers.
When things settle down and you contribute until you're dry , I'll update the first post with a new scheme, pretty links, links to your posts and stuff like that.
I think I am going to have to buy this book.
And is it just me, or is anyone else now looking even more forward to the next episodes after we've seen all of this?


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How to write interpreters in Java? The course will follow the traditional Northeastern approach of learning about programming languages by studying a series of increasingly more complex programming languages and their interpreters. In my version of the course we will not only use Scheme and Scheme tools but also Java and Java tools. This will facilitate technology transfer by showing how the same ideas, first expressed in Scheme, are expressed in a more widely used language and its tools.
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To learn how a variety of programming language features and mechanisms may be understood by specifying them in a very-high-level language such as Scheme. A subsidiary theme will be the use of formal methods for program specification.
Data Structures or the equivalent, and some previous knowledge of Lisp or Scheme.
If you were assigned Lisp or Scheme as a deficiency in your admissions letter, you must have successfully completed the Scheme Proficiency Exam.
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After Recall of Food, Veterinarians at Cornell University Rush to Save Poisoned Dogs
By MICHELLE YORK
Published: January 9, 2006
ITHACA, N.Y., Jan. 7 - On Friday morning, when their 4-year-old golden retriever, Minnie, was near death, Robert and Janice Lugo called in sick to their jobs, carried Minnie to their car and drove her to a top animal hospital four hours away.
Robert and Janice Lugo of Catskill, N.Y., comforted their dog on Saturday at Cornell's veterinary hospital.
They were in such a rush that Mr. Lugo left his winter coat back at their home in Catskill, N.Y. But he took his credit cards, which he figured he would need to pay for what could be thousands of dollars in veterinary bills.
It is the Lugos' last-ditch effort to save Minnie from liver disease brought on, veterinarians said, by pet food contaminated with a stealthy toxin. "She trusted us, and we fed her poison," Mrs. Lugo said, crying.
On Dec. 20, Diamond Pet Food, a Missouri company that sells its products internationally, voluntarily recalled 800,000 bags of pet food under several labels after an investigation. Based on lab tests, company officials believe that 1 to 3 percent of those bags contain dangerous amounts of aflatoxin, a poisonous byproduct of a fungus that grows on corn and other crops. When ingested in high amounts, aflatoxin causes potentially fatal liver disease. The recall included both cat and dog food, though dogs seem to be particularly susceptible.
"I'm hoping and praying that we got those bags back," said Mark Brinkmann, the company's chief operating officer.
But veterinarians at Cornell University Hospital for Animals, which has become a Northeast hub for dogs believed to be poisoned by the food, including Minnie, are worried. In the three weeks since the recall, veterinarians at the hospital in Ithaca have increased their estimate of dog fatalities so far to 100 nationwide from a handful.
Some pet owners may not have heard of the recall because it was announced just before the holidays. And aflatoxin poisoning does not always take effect quickly and can be mistaken for less serious illnesses, so they have adapted a human protein test to quickly detect the toxin. Veterinarians fear the number of fatalities could grow to several hundred in the coming months.
"I've never in my life seen anything like this," said Dr. Sharon Center, a professor of veterinary medicine at Cornell.
The chain of events that led to the poisoning began with poor weather. A drought in the South left cornfields vulnerable to Aspergillus flavus, a colorless, odorless fungus that spawns aflatoxin. The contaminated corn came from one of Diamond's main suppliers in Hilton Head, S.C., Mr. Brinkmann said. According to Mr. Brinkmann, Diamond routinely tests for aflatoxin, and an average of one truckload of corn has been rejected nearly every week because it tested positive for aflatoxin.
But the industry's testing methods are not foolproof, experts said. The fungus does not grow uniformly throughout the crop, so it may exist in some parts of the truckload of corn and not others.
On Oct. 11, a contaminated truckload slipped through, Mr. Brinkmann said. The pet food was processed at a company plant in Gaston, S.C., and sent to a distributor in Buffalo. From there, the contaminated food was put on store shelves east of Ohio.
Nearly two months later, several young Labradors at Kresland Kennel, near Rochester, began showing signs of liver failure, which include fatigue, vomiting and internal bleeding. Within about a week, three had died. "I had no idea why," said Susan Patrick, a breeder for 35 years.
Ms. Patrick's veterinarian, Dr. Stuart Gluckman, suggested post-mortem testing by pathologists at Cornell. In the meantime, an associate at his practice, Dr. Sara Sanders, was investigating the illness of two golden retrievers, one of whom later died. The veterinarians realized that both groups of dogs were being fed Diamond products. A receptionist at the practice overheard and was concerned because she was also using that brand, though her dog seemed healthy.
They alerted the state veterinary diagnostic center at Cornell, which tested the food and found aflatoxin. About two weeks later, the receptionist's dog died. Ms. Patrick has lost 7 of her 25 dogs and all of the others are still sick.
"They were dying in my lap," she said.
Once the problem was realized, Cornell experts prepared for the onslaught of cases. Many cut short holiday plans and are still working long shifts trying to figure out how to stave off death in the dogs.
There is no antidote. If a human contracted aflatoxin poisoning, which sometimes occurs in Third World countries, that person would need a liver transplant. Dr. Center is giving the dogs drugs to sustain them until their livers can regain some function.
Still, the fatality rate at Cornell is about 70 percent. The dogs that survive could face lifelong liver complications and a greatly increased risk of liver cancer.
Dr. Center is fielding calls from concerned veterinarians from the East Coast, and she fears that many other pets have died at their local animal hospital or at home without the disease's being diagnosed. The hardest calls, she said, are from older pet owners, who have lost their main companion. "They're anguished," she said.
In some cases, it is the owners, not the medicine, who bring comfort to the dogs. Jane-Marie Law crawled into the large cage that held her standard poodle, Tavi, to comfort her during her more difficult moments. After three weeks and nearly $7,500 in bills, Tavi is recovering. Now Ms. Law is helping the Lugo family. After meeting them on Friday at Cornell, Ms. Law took in Robert and Janice Lugo.
Diamond, which has never had a similar problem, is also trying to cope, Mr. Brinkmann said. After the company confirmed the contamination, it set up a call center and hired 12 veterinarians to answer questions. About 1,000 people a day call in. "They're getting hammered," said Dr. Stan Casteel, a veterinary professor who is working at the call center.
Diamond has also created an additional level of testing for aflatoxin and it will reimburse people for their veterinary bills and the cost of their lost animal in confirmed cases, Mr. Brinkmann said. "If we do the right thing, we can recover," he said.
On Saturday, Minnie lay in her cage, awake but motionless except for a tail wag when she saw her owners. "Once in a while, she'll just look at us like the old Minnie," Mr. Lugo said. "We just want her back."


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- Date: 11/06/2017 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Location: City Hall
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- Introduction: Charter Review Commission Meeting at City Council Chambers at City Hall. The Commission is chaired by Dustin Hodges.
Section 16.02 - Charter Review Commission
Council shall appoint a Charter Review Commission of nine qualified voters in June of the second year after approval of this Charter and every fifth June thereafter. Council shall serve on the Commission as ex-officio, voting members. The City Secretary shall serve as secretary to the Commission in a non-voting capacity. The City Attorney shall serve on the Commission in a non-voting, legal advisory capacity.
a) Duties of the Commission:
(1) Inquire into the operation of the City Government and determine whether any Charter provisions require revision. The Commission shall have the power to hold public hearings, compel the attendance of any officer or employee of the City, and compel the production of any City records.
(2) Propose recommendations for City departments to insure compliance with this Charter.
(3) Propose Charter amendments, if any, to the Council.
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The term of office of this Charter Review Commission shall be six calendar months from appointment date. Prior to the end of the term, a written report shall be presented to Council, and all Commission records shall be filed with the City Secretary as a public record.
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Upon receipt of any written report from the Commission, the Council shall within ten days, make copies available to the public at City Hall and publish a synopsis of the report in the official City newspaper. The Council shall consider the report at a public hearing within thirty days of receiving it. The Council may, in its sole discretion, order any amendments recommended by the Commission and/or the Council to be submitted individually to the voters of the City in an election as provided by State law within six months after the term of the Charter Review Commission expires.


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A new study has found that an infusion of feces from a healthy person into an ailing patient's gut was significantly more effective than a traditional antibiotic treatment — raising hopes that the unconventional approach could one day help combat obesity, food allergies and a host of other maladies.
The study, published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrated that the fecal transplant cleared up a recurrent bacterial infection far more reliably than the routinely prescribed medication. In fact, the transplant was so successful that the research trial was ended early so that patients in the control groups could be given the remedy as well.
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Wrestling fans are familiar with the career of Bad News Allen / Bad News Brown. He was one tough dude. But before getting into pro wrestling late in his life, Allen Coage was a major force in judo, and was the second American to ever medal in the Olympics in the sport. SLAM! Wrestling turned to the first American to claim an Olympic medal (1964, bronze), Jim Bregman, to share his memories of Allen Coage.
It was an odd set of circumstances that day so long ago in Philadelphia. The venue was alive with the excitement of the Judo Trials for the 1976 Olympic Games to be held later in the year in Montreal. The event was about 90% completed when the tournament officials made an announcement about a late-breaking decision they had just made concerning the selection process and the tournament. The exact details blurred now by time matter very little, but to these athletes who had spent their entire lives trying to make an Olympic team it was devastation, a crushing tsunami which meant that some deserving winners might indeed not be selected!
After the "official announcement," there was a long moment of stunned disbelief and silence. The ABC camera crews were baffled, as were the directors and producers. This was to be the first time the Olympic Judo Trials were to be covered live. Then the noise level rose steadily to a vibrating din and the athletes were milling around agitated, angry, hurt, confused, and astonished at this "stupid" last-minute "switch" which would completely determine their future Olympic hopes and dreams. An athlete's revolution was brewing and they were mad as hell. They were not "going to take this crap" any more. But what on earth to do to rectify this "official blundering fiasco"? How do powerless athletes reason with "unreasonable officials" who are "dictatorial in their edits" and domineering?
Allen Coage and Jimmy Wooley were to fight next and, although, the confusion, milling around, athlete disgust, and disappoint were being voiced now by shouting and jeering, yelling and screaming at the tournament officials, Ben Campbell, George Harris, Paul Maruyama and I were dumbfounded and standing on the floor by the mats completely taken aback by the announcement and the loud "revolution" which was gaining momentum.
We were approached by Allen and Jimmy for advice and guidance and, as we were talking, the athletes gathered around and the boiling noise level began to simmer. Then it turned into dead silence. You could have heard a pin drop.
Allen and Jimmy asked us simply, "What would you guys do in a situation like this?" It wasn't Ben's, George's, Paul's or my Olympic birth that was on the line. It was Allen's and Jimmy's, and all the other Olympic dreamers who came to fight that day. The four of us were awestruck at the question, at the dilemma and speechless. The five of us talked quietly and logically and explored options -- all of which were, to say the least, not good.
Finally, the call came out from the announcer commanding Jimmy and Coage out to the mat for the final match. Allen and Jimmy respectfully asked one more time, "What would you guys do?" A second call to the mat came with a threat of disqualification. Time had run out.
We four told them "we" would not compete in this situation and we would demand other trials with consistent and fair selection criteria published at the start and immutable throughout the tournament. I said that the USOC/AAU will be sued by the USJA and that the four of us would work with the USJA Board to correct this mess and get a retrial under a court order if necessary! We also told Allen and Jimmy that it must be their decision and their decision alone as to what course to follow because the personal stakes are too high for us to tell them what to do -- not that we ever really would have tried to do that.
Allen and Jimmy, two of the greatest American Judoka of all time had great senses of humor at this moment of "truth" and with wry, impish smiles on their faces they said, "Just watch this!"
They stepped onto the mat and bowed to the officials. Step up to the "line" to wait for the hajime. And then, it came, loud and clear from the referee, "hajime!" With dignified grace these two men of the mat, bowed and walked slowly to the center of the mat. They shook hands, walked back to the "line", bowed humbly and walked off of the mat.
What followed can only be described as total chaos, a loud cheer went up from the athletes and the audience, flags were waved and cheering and yelling continued for a long time. Allen and Jimmy made their way over to the four of us and we all hugged and jumped joyously. The "athlete's revolt" which had been brewing for a long time erupted like a volcano.
I called Michael Rosenberg, the USJA attorney in Washington, D.C., and related all the shocking events in detail. Michael said his firm would do everything possible to see that there was a retrial. A case was filed in the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia. Short story, they settled, agreed to a retrial under consistent rules and procedures.
Allen and Jimmy at the retrial entered separate categories and made the 1976 Olympic Team.
I was in Montreal that day and watched Allen fight and win a Bronze Medal. After the medal ceremony, I called Michael at the law firm from a pay phone outside the arena in the hall. I told him Allen had won and let him listen to the applause. We, American Judo athletes, had won, and Allen and Jimmy showed the way with dignity and courage at a time of high crisis.
I can hear my youngest son, Matthew, calling me, as he often did as a child: "Hey Dad, come on down and watch wrestling with me! Bad News Brown is wrestling tonight. Hurry, you don't want to miss it!" This was a ritual on wrestling night and I would sit with Matthew and we'd watch the latest saga of Bad News Brown unfold week after week.
After the wrestling was over, I would tell Matthew many stories about the Olympic Trials events, the Montreal Olympics, the Camp Olympus stories, training trips to Europe with Allen and the trips to South Africa to have team judo matches with the South Africans during apartied. Allen was the Captain of all of those teams. The South Africans loved him.
He was a courageous and honorable man, dignified, steady and had a great sense of humor. He was a tremendous DANCER.
Matthew and I, like many millions of children and parents around the world, mourn the passing of the one and only Allen Coage, Olympian, and our hero. Our regrets and sympathy are with his loved ones.
Jim Bregman
Olympic and World Medalist


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NEW YORK—The NFL Network and Dish Network have agreed to a settlement that ends a lawsuit over how the satellite provider broadcasts the channel.
The two sides announced the deal Friday. It includes a multiyear contract for Englewood, Colo.-based Dish to continue carrying NFL Network.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Dish had moved the channel to a tier with fewer subscribers in January 2008. The company claimed the NFL violated their contract when it simulcast the historic Patriots-Giants game on CBS and NBC in December 2007.
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Affect, Embodiment and Sense Perception
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Editorial Introduction:
Recent trends in social theory have placed great importance on "affect" for both analytic and political reasons, but the term is somewhat vague and ambiguous. For example, it has been described as felt bodily intensity that is: different from emotion and language; pre-social, but not asocial; material—or somehow pertaining to matter; dynamic and energetic; rife with possibilities to produce "new" and "emergent" phenomena.
This shorthand characterization of affect invites a number of questions. For instance: How must affect theorists understand "language" in order to then oppose it to "felt bodily intensity"? Why is affect aligned with the energetic, dynamic and new; while emotion is cast as static, deadening, ossifying? How must both time and the social be understood such that affect is presumed to come before the social, without being nonsocial? Finally: what is at stake in the conversations about affect, and what research and analytic tools do anthropologists possess in order to begin to address them?
The articles collected in this collection address the above qustions through different research methods and analytic objects. Significantly, they focus on how other analytic foci—namely, sense perception and embodiement—add to the field of discussion. The collection features articles by Joseph Alter, Thomas Csordas, Lochlann Jain, Eva Hayward and Nancy Rose Hunt. We invite you to read their materials and visit the associated supplemental pages.
"The Body of One Color: Indian Wrestling, The Indian State, and Utopian Somatics"
Joseph Alter
"In this article I will provide an example of how a psychosomatic synthesis characterizes a particular category of person in northern India: the pahalwan, or Indian wrestler. I will argue that the wrestler's identity is the product of a precise "disciplinary mechanics" and that this psychosomatic identity is central to an ideology of national, moral reform."
Thomas Csordas
Embodiment as a paradigm or methodological orientation requires that the body be understood as the existential ground of culture-not as an object that is "good to think," but as a subject that is "necessary to be." To argue by analogy, a phenomenological paradigm of embodiment can be offered as an equivalent, and complement, to the semiotic paradigm of culture as text. Much as Barthes (1986) draws a distinction between the work and the text, a distinction can be drawn between the body and embodiment. For Barthes, the work is a fragment of substance, the material object that occupies the space of a bookstore or a library shelf. The text, in contrast, is an indeterminate methodological field that exists only when caught up in a discourse, and that is experienced only as activity and production (1986:57-68). In parallel fashion, the body is a biological, material entity, while embodiment can be understood as an indeterminate methodological field defined by perceptual experience and the mode of presence and engagement in the world. As applied to anthropology, the model of the text means that cultures can be understood, for purposes of internal and comparative analysis, to have properties similar to texts (Ricoeur 1979). In contrast, the paradigm of embodiment means not that cultures have the same structure as bodily experience, but that embodied experience is the starting point for analyzing human participation in a cultural world.
"Fingereyes: Impressions of Cup Corals"
Eva Hayward
In When Species Meet (2008) Donna Haraway proposes that creatures' identities and affinities emerge through their encounters, their relationships. Following Haraway's lead, I attend to how different species sense and apprehend one another, leaving impressions—concrescences of perceptual data, or texture. This essay reports on fieldwork alongside marine biologists and with a population of cup corals (B. elegans) housed at the Long Marine Laboratory, Santa Cruz, California. While I assisted researchers who were studying metabolic rates and reproductive strategies in coral communities, these cup corals simultaneously taught me that being and sensing are inextricably enfolded. We were variously situated—corals generating generations, me interpretations. We met through a material-semiotic apparatus I call "fingeryeyes." As an act of sensuous manifesting, fingeryeyes offers a queer reading of how making sense and sensual meaning are produced through determinable and permeable species boundaries.
"Acoustic Register, Tenacious Images, and Congolese Scenes of Rape and Repetition"
Nancy Rose Hunt
This article argues for the importance of rewriting the conventional atrocity narrative about violence in King Leopold's Congo Free State in relation to the present, the ongoing war-related humanitarianism and sexual violence in the DRC. The central idea is to push beyond the shock and tenacity of the visual, the ubiquitous mutilation photographs that tend to blot out all else; and instead seek weaker, more fragile acoustic traces in a diverse archive with Congolese words and sounds. This sensory, nonspectral mode of parsing the archive tells us something new about the immediacy of violence, its duration in memory, and the bodily and reproductive effects of sexually torturing women. The sound of twisted laughter convulsed around forms of sexual violence that were constitutive of reproductive ruination during the rubber regime in Leopold's Congo. The work of strategically tethering the past to the present should not be about forging historicist links across time but about locating repetitions and difference, including differences among humanitarian modes and strategies in the early 20th and the early 21st centuries.
S. Lochlann Jain
The academic literature still tends to take Audre Lorde as the primary feminist theorist of breast cancer, and her The Cancer Journals (1997) remains, nearly three decades out, the definitive word on breast cancer and gender theory. In this article, I revisit the cultures and politics of cancer, offering a queer analysis of breast cancer in the U.S.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Google overreaches in latest anti-SPAM feature
Google is now adding an "Unsubscribe and report spam" option to newsletters and mailing lists. The problem I see with this is the classic "UNSUBSCRIBE ME" type post you tend to see on high traffic lists like Perl Beginners. People sign up for mailing lists. SPAM, by definition, is unsolicited. Encouraging people to mark things that are not SPAM as SPAM is wrong and dilutes the term. It is all well and good if Google wants to make it easy for people to unsubscribe from mailing lists, but they shouldn't be stigmatizing those mailing lists because someone wants to unsubscribe and doesn't know the proper way to do it.
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You have this backwards.ReplyDelete
People already click "report as spam" for everything they don't want: mailing lists, forwarded jokes from their family, you name it. Google isn't encouraging this behavior; if anything, they're trying to redirect it and educate their users.
But they are still encouraging the users to think of email the user asked to get as SPAM. Adding an easy way to unsubscribe is good, linking this with SPAM is bad.ReplyDelete
Google wants to make it easy for how do you stop spam people to unsubscribe from mailing lists,ReplyDelete
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August 09, 2005
Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese
2 tablespoons corn starch
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 1/2 cups milk
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups (8 oz) shredded sharp Cheddar cheese, reserving 1/2 cup
2 cups (8 oz) pasta, cooked 5 minutes and drained
In a microwavable bowl, combine the corn starch, salt, dry mustard and pepper. Stir in milk. Add butter. Heat for 5 minutes. Stir in 1 3/4 cups cheese until melted then add pasta. Pour into slightly greased crock pot. Sprinkle with reserved cheese. Cover and heat on the high setting for 30 minutes. Then switch to low until ready to eat (if late) or keep on high 20 more minutes and then serve.
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That looks insanely delicious. Ive tries Mac N Cheese in a crock put before with no luck. I will try your recipe!ReplyDelete
I love anything that can be made in a crock pot!ReplyDelete
This recipe is DELICIOUS. I'm so glad I found your blog. There are lots of yummy things :)
- NicoleMarch 06, 2008 6:53 PM
Love this recipe!! I have a 1 year old who only loves cheese, so I snuck in some roasted chicken bits and peas and corn and he LOVES it! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
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MONKTON — "Do you want to jump higher?" Karen Amirault shouts to the gymnasium full of Monkton Central School third- and fourth-graders.
The students, spread at arms' length across the space, giggle and nod. Amirault presses play on an iPod hooked up to a set of speakers. The music begins and the students dance in unison, calling out their moves to stay on track.
The rehearsal goes off without a hitch, save for one boy who, despite valiant effort, is forced to pause midway to tie his shoelaces.


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Horn of Africa Crisis: 2011-2012
The Horn of Africa crisis of 2011-2012 affected 13 million people. The main focus of the crisis was across southern Ethiopia, south-central Somalia and northern Kenya. Regional drought came on top of successive bad rains and rising inflation. It ramped up a chronic livelihoods crisis into a tipping point of potential disaster by putting extreme pressure on food prices, livestock survival, and water and food availability. Armed conflict across the region compounded chronic ecological and economic vulnerability, which escalated the crisis and limited people's survival and recovery choices. (IASC Real-Time Evaluation of the Humanitarian Response to the Horn of Africa Drought Crisis in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya - Synthesis Report)
The famine in Somalia, which was declared by the UN on 20 Jul 2011, had ended by 3 Feb 2012, but many affected populations in the region remain in need of humanitarian assistance.
Appeals & Response Plans
- OCHA: Djibouti Appel global 2013
- Govt. Ethiopia: Humanitarian Requirements - 2013
- OCHA: Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan for Kenya 2013
- OCHA: Somalia Consolidated Appeal 2013-2015
Useful Links
Most read reports
- Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock: Opening Remarks at the Launch of the 2018 Somalia Humanitarian Response Plan and the Resilience and Recovery Framework
- Humanitarian Assistance in Review: East and Central Africa | Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 – 2017
- Learning from experience: a summarised review of early warning systems
- The Global Climate in 2011–2015
- Stories of Impact: Building Capacity for Drought Resilience in Tanzania


text: During and immediately after the Civil War, many northerners headed to the southern states, driven by hopes of economic gain, a desire to work on behalf of the newly emancipated slaves or a combination of both. These "carpetbaggers"–whom many in the South viewed as opportunists looking to exploit and profit from the region's misfortunes–supported the Republican Party, and would play a central role in shaping new southern governments during Reconstruction. In addition to carpetbaggers and freed African Americans, the majority of Republican support in the South came from white southerners who for various reasons saw more of an advantage in backing the policies of Reconstruction than in opposing them. Critics referred derisively to these southerners as "scalawags."


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Question for anyone who has flown (internationally, on a commercial airplane, I mean) lately with their sewing supplies. The CATSA/FAA website says I'm allowed "sissors with blunt points" and "small needles in a sewing kit" in my carry-on luggage. I'd love to take a little project with me to pass the time on the flight.
Has anyone flown internationally with sissors and needles lately? Do you think my tiny embroidery sissors and a couple of needles (for stitching the binding onto some quilted coasters I'm making) will pass security?


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sub Hand-Dyed Yarns / Hot-Shot-Toes
Hot Shot Toes
If you like our Cosmic, you'll love Hot Shot for fine, durable socks. Hot Shot is just a touch skinnier than Cosmic, but with the same sturdy superwash Merino and nylon. The round 3-ply construction makes textured stitches pop, and these mini skeins are perfect for colorwork and small projects.
Size: 133 yd / 1.3 oz (121m / 38g) skeins
Content: 80% superwash Merino wool, 20% nylon
Gauge: Fingering weight. 7-9 stitches per inch on US 0-2.
Care Instructions: Machine wash gentle. This yarn should be dried flat for best results.


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Mayor's Office
With property and sales tax numbers on the rebound, Mayor Chris Beutler said his proposed City budget for 2012-2014 includes no tax increases, no major program cuts, and no use of one-time funds for ongoing expenses. When he took office in 2007, Beutler vowed to fix the City's structural imbalance in the City budget. Since then, he has cut about 141 jobs equal to about $7.6 million in funding.
"We've had to make hard choices on revenues, putting in place the increases that prevented the closure of parks and libraries across the City and devastating cuts in police and fire services," Beutler said. "At the same time, we made bold choices to invest in Lincoln's future. For the first biennial budget in our City's history, our choices are paying off. Our fiscal austerity has created the most stable budget situation since I took office in 2007. We have fixed the structural imbalance and put our house in order. We are positioned to keep Lincoln on the move."
The proposed tax-funded budget for 2012-2013 is $153.6 million, a 4.98 percent increase over the current fiscal year. The proposed tax-funded budget for 2013-2014 is $158.8 million, a 3.43 percent increase over 2012-2013. Over seven budgets, the increase averages 2.89 percent a year. The Mayor will present his 2012-2014 budget to the City Council at 1 p.m. Monday, July 9 in the City Council Chambers, 555 S. 10th St. The presentation will be carried live on 5 CITY-TV (government access cable channel 5) and available through video-on-demand at lincoln.ne.gov.
Sales taxes and property taxes fund more than 70 percent of the City's tax-funded budget, and revenues from both had flattened over the last few years. City sales tax receipts through 10 months of the current fiscal year are $2.3 million or 4.7 percent above projections, and the property tax base is again growing. Out of every property tax dollar, the City receives about 15.6 cents, and Lincoln's property tax rate ranks 12th when compared to the State's 15 largest cities.
But the Mayor said budget challenges remain. Employee health care costs are projected to increase by 24 percent due mainly to inflation and claims experience. The cost per FTE (full-time equivalent) has increased 15.72 percent over the past four years, outpacing the Consumer Price Index (8.95 percent) and sales and property tax revenue (6.47 percent).
Personnel costs make up about 70 percent of the City budget. State law mandates that City salaries and benefits be comparable to other cities its size. All civilian labor unions have agreed to reduce the two-to-one retirement match for new employees.
The Mayor thanked City employees for continuing to do more with less. Since the 2006-2007 fiscal year, Lincoln's has grown 11.9 percent in population and 7.4 percent in size. Over the same time period, the City workforce has declined by 6.3 percent. For civilian employees, the decline has been 9.7 percent.
Mayor Beutler is proposing an increase in the hourly metered parking rate from 50 cents to $1 to encourage turnover at the most convenient parking spots. The budget also calls for new Fire and Rescue fees for fire false alarms, calls for non-emergency assistance in moving patients and vehicle extraction and hazardous materials response. The library system will increase some fees to replace revenue losses.
Changes in the proposed budget also include:
The entire budget will be available at lincoln.ne.gov. The public hearing on the City budget is scheduled for Monday, August 6. The new fiscal year begins September 1.


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Santa arrived early for Kellie Pickler, who is looking forward to her first Christmas as Mrs. Kyle Jacobs – but says she already has the best gift imaginable: their almost 1-year-old marriage.
"Marriage is so special," the country singer, 25, tells us. "I never thought that I would get married, so I"m glad that I let that wall down. I"m glad that I let Kyle love me. He is the greatest blessing in my life."
The couple – who secretly wed Jan. 1, 2010, on an island in the Caribbean – never wait to express their love only on special occasions, but write their feelings down in journals for each other.
"He"s been doing it since before we got engaged and [then] I started a journal for him," says Pickler. "It"s one of those things you write in not for any special occasion but just because you love one another. It shouldn"t take holidays for you to act like you like each other and be nice to one another. You should be like that every day."
On Thursday, Dec. 1, Pickler plans to cuddle up in front of the TV with her hubby to watch CMA Country Christmas, which airs on ABC from 9-11 p.m. ET/8-10 p.m. CT.
The two-hour special, hosted by Jennifer Nettles, features interviews with country stars about their family holiday traditions, as well as performances of seasonal classics by Nettles, Vince Gill , Amy Grant, American Idol"s Scotty McCreary and Lauren Alaina, Martina McBride, Keith Urban, Faith Hill and Pickler, who"ll channel "60s country chart-topper Brenda Lee with her rendition of "Rockin" Around the Christmas Tree. "


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FRG has been approached by a researcher at the law school of Plymouth University. She is carrying out a piece of research in to the experiences, needs and rights of birth mothers, whose children have been adopted. See details below if you are interested in being involved in the study or finding out more about it.
Please note that FRG is not responsible for this research and that any involvement in it or contact with the researcher is at the discretion of individual discussion board users.
Best Wishes
FRG Adviser
• The name and address of the investigator: Lisamarie Deblasio c/o Plymouth Law School, Room 001, 19 Portland Villas, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA.
• This study is to learn more about the experiences of birth mothers whose children have been adopted since the Adoption and Children Act 2002 became law. The information will be collected directly from birth mothers who participate in the study. The study has several objectives: the first is to uncover an element of adoption which has not been recently studied; that of birth mother's experiences. The second is to contribute the findings of the study to the field of adoption; in particular, evidence of the strengths and weaknesses of current law, policy and practice. The third is to help empower women who have been affected by adoption. The fourth is to make recommendations in line with the findings that will seek to improve the way birth mothers are treated by our legal system and by those involved in adoption practice. Finally the study invites birth mothers to speak out about what impact adoption has had upon them personally.
• Basic eligibility criteria: The study is open to all birth/natural/biological mothers of children who have been adopted since the Adoption and Children Act 2002 came in to force on 30th December 2005. If you are unsure whether adoption under this Act applied to your circumstances please feel free to contact the researcher for clarification.
• Participation benefits: I hope the information you provide will allow you to freely express your views and feelings about your experiences of adoption. The information you provide will not only give you a voice but will seek to educate people of the need to provide better care, empathy and support of birth mothers. Additionally your experiences will demonstrate where there is a need for a change of culture in the way the law treats birth mothers in adoption proceedings.
• The study involves the completion of a questionnaire which will be sent to you either electronically or a paper copy. This can be completed in your own time.
• If you feel you would like to participate or would like further information please contact Lisamarie Deblasio in writing to the above address, by email at email@example.com., by leaving a message via social media to Facebook, search 'Adoption Study Lisa Deblasio' or by text or phone to Lisa on 0783 5455512
• Any contact you make with the researcher will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Research study focussing on the experience of mothers whose children have been adopted.
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