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- Fonds
- 1919-1995
This fonds is divided into 4 series: Research, Miscellaneous, Reviews, Miscellaneous.
Stubbs, Roy St. George
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This fonds is divided into 4 series: Research, Miscellaneous, Reviews, Miscellaneous.
Stubbs, Roy St. George
The content of the fonds consists primarily of correspondence, but also includes photographs, postcards, and a Royal Canadian Air Force service and paybook.
Polson, Archibald John
Fonds contains one hockey goaltender stick used by Art Puttee while goalie for the Canadian hockey team (the University of Manitoba Grads) that won the 1931 World Championships in Krynica, Poland. Handwritten on one side of the handle is the text,...
Puttee, Arthur T.
The fonds contains one (1 ft.x1 ft.) hand-embroidered flag with the University of Manitoba and the crest stitched in the middle.
Fenny, Walter J.
The fonds is divided into seven series: 1) Susan Goyer's correspondence, notes and reports 2) Reports and minutes of the North Ritchot Restoration Committtee & North Ritchot Action Committee, community organization projects, and assistance and...
Goyer, Susan
The fonds is related to Evan and Mary MacPherson's instigation and recording of many séances during the period 1933 to 1936 as well as recordings and transcriptions of a number of séances from 1939 to 1952. In addition the fonds contains recording...
MacPherson, Hannah Mary
The fonds consists of farm records, legal documents, geneaological information, diaries, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to the Jellis family farm. The material contains a variety of land deeds and titles, oil leases and indentures, grain ...
Jellis Family
The fonds contains correspondence, assorted news clippings, a photo album, and typed drafts of his published manuscripts: Sarah Binks, Tower of Siloam, Willows Revisited, Doubting Castle and For the Birds. Included is an original typescript with r...
Hiebert, Paul
Manitoba Cattle Producers Association fonds
The fonds consists of the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association's records, in its many different incarnations, and other related material dating as far back as 1924. The records consist of correspondence, memorandums, news releases, committee...
Manitoba Cattle Producers Association
The collection contains 30 unpublished research papers submitted to Professor Peterson by his leading students between 1976 and 1991 on the broad subject of Manitoba political studies. Topics addressed include the following: the Manitoba Developme...
The fonds consists of subject notes taken by Parkinson while he was a student at the Manitoba Agricultural College 1911-1916, a list of Manitoba Agricultural College graduates from 1908-1955, Manitoba Agricultural College and Faculty of Agricultur...
Fred F. Parkinson
Ogilvie Flour Mills Company fonds
The fonds consists of twenty four series: A.W. & W.W. Ogilvie Co. Ltd. (1847-1973), Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Ltd. (1900-1983), Seaforth Milling Co. Ltd. (1909-1978), La Boulangerie Nationale Ltee. (1913-1972), Consolidated Bakeries (1914-1980),...
Ogilvie Flour Mills Company
This collection is comprised of three series. The first series, "Reports," contains scripts of reports Lionel Moore completed for the CBC as agricultural correspondent. The files are arranged chronologically and those with no specific da...
Lionel Moore
This fonds consists of short histories written and submitted by the families included in the aforementioned history, early drafts of various sections of the book, a publisher's draft of the book, and a binder of photostats of pictures and ima...
Don Parker
Dauphin Agricultural Society fonds
The fonds consists of ledgers, cash books, minute books, cheque journals, auditors reports, and account books of the Dauphin Agricultural Society and associated agricultural clubs.
Dauphin Agricultural Society
The fonds is divided into three series. A single article about Suzanne Muir, her sister and Reverend Wood comprises the biographical series. The second series contains lectures that Suzanne Muir gave at the Spiritualist Church that congregated at ...
Suzanne Muir
Indigenous Languages of Rupert's Land Collection
The collection consists of ephemeral publications and audio recordings related to the Indigenous languages of Rupert's Land. Many of these were originally produced for language instruction and included teacher's manuals, readers, workboo...
Indigenous Languages of Rupert's Land
The fonds consists of four series. The first series consists of newspaper clippings about Kathleen Rice. Because of the condition of these clippings, they have been photocopied. The second series consists of an exerpt about Kathleen Rice from a bo...
Kathleen Rice
The fonds contains articles, speeches and course notes.
William H. McEwen
The fonds contains various newsletters, pamphlets and publications on UFOs, occult societies, psychics and natural healers. It also contains Rasch's scrapbook of the Monarchy; as well as a scrapbook collected by Dora Dibney of Margaret Hamilt...
Bernard M. Rasch
This fonds consists of records relating to the daily functions of the Post family farm. Materials include account books and receipts documenting grain and livestock production, Canadian Wheat Board permit books, as well as federal and municipal ta...
Post Family
The fonds is divided into ten series. They include biographical information and awards, publications, John M. King research, lectures, sermons, course notes, correspondence, writings by others, oversize material, and photographs.
Harland, Gordon
This fonds consists of William T. Metzger's correspondence with William B. Payne; William Payne's drawings (organized into files by numbers), and writings (descriptive, automatic).
William T. Metzger
The fonds is separated into 11 series. They include biographical information, correspondence, articles and conference papers, conferences, meetings and site visits, Hamerton's research material, academic material, receipts, research material,...
John L. Hamerton
The majority of the photographs pertain to architecture, with smaller numbers of portraits of friends and his wife, Toni, and dog, Coco; animals in zoos; events such as hockey games and the circus; as well as a series related to Expo 67 in Montréal.
Handler, Leon
This fonds consists of four series: Newspaper Clippings, Correspondence, Membership Certification, and Printed Copies of Photographs. The photographic collection consists of four black and white photographs, which have been scanned and printed ont...
T.B. Roberton
The fonds consist of approximately 5,110 negatives (3 per strip) taken by Jon Thordarson during his time as a photographer for the Winnipeg Tribune. The negatives document the Winnipeg Jets hockey team from 1974 to 1980. Almost all the negatives i...
Thordarson, Jon
Fonds consists of correspondence, a diary and other textual records created or collected by John Pennefather.
Pennefather, John Pyne
This fonds largely consists of colour guides and front pages for P. Craig Russell's "Ring of the Nibelung" series of comics for Dark Horse Comics. The fonds contains 845 colour guides and 14 front pages, along with a published copy ...
Kindzierski, Lovern, 1954-
Charles Cohen–Vivian Rakoff collection
This accural consists of three screenplays by Max Charles Cohen: a typescript of "The Hanging Clown", story by Bill Manhoff and screenplay by Cohen; and two copies, one handwritten and one typed, of "The True Bleeding Heart of Marti...
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The over/under was 55.5. This was supposed to be a nonstop shootout with two marquee quarterbacks. But Peyton Manning's touchdown factory didn't pile up points on the Chargers, instead holding just a one-possession lead at the end of a mostly mundane 24-17 game.
Considering Denver scored the most points ever in an NFL regular season, this was a bit disappointing. The defense dealt with an unusually small lead by shutting out the Chargers through three quarters with a 17-0 lead. There were a couple of squandered chances, though. Donald Butler's improbable end zone pick before halftime took away a possible touchdown, and Matt Prater missed a 47-yard field goal wide left. These are complaints only because we expected more. Still, Denver's defense was tight for 45 minutes. But at the start of the fourth quarter, San Diego finally finished a drive with points when stellar rookie receiver Keenan Allen caught a 16-yard touchdown.
The Broncos responded accordingly on the following drive, with some big help from a questionable penalty. On third down, San Diego's Marcus Gilchrist was called for defensive pass interference on Wes Welker, awarding 23 yards and new set of downs to Denver, but it looked more like an unintentional trip. Welker deftly sold it, and the drive continued, concluding with a Knowshon Moreno score for a 24-7 Denver lead.
If the fourth-quarter Chargers had played the entire game, they might be in the AFC Championship Game. The offense took on a new life, particularly exploiting Broncos corner Quentin Jammer. The Rivers-to-Allen connection produced 142 yards and two total touchdowns. The Chargers cut the deficit to 24-17 with roughly four minutes left, but Peyton Manning and the offense found a way to kill 3:53. And when Manning had an opportunity to put the game away on third down before the two-minute warning, he came through, finding tight end Julius Thomas to all but seal the game.
Three years ago, Peyton Manning was healing from neck surgery. Tonight, he's one win away from a Super Bowl appearance. Modern medicine is neat.
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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event Mid-May 2004: Human Rights Worker Says US Human Rights Abuses Are System Problem. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
British nationals Jamal Udeen, Tarek Dergoul, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, and Shafiq Rasul are released from Guantanamo without charges. Upon landing at the RAF Northolt airfield, all except Udeen are arrested by British police. They are released soon after questioning. [Mirror, 3/12/2004]
Entity Tags: Tarek Dergoul, Jamal Udeen
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives
The Army issues a classified "Information Paper" entitled "Allegations of Detainee Abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan" that details the status of 62 investigations into prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and other sites in Iraq and Afghanistan. Cases documented in the paper include allegations of assaults, physical assaults, mock executions, sexual assaults, threatening to kill an Iraqi child to "send a message to other Iraqis," stripping detainees, beating them and shocking them with a blasting device, throwing rocks at handcuffed Iraqi children, choking detainees with knots of their scarves, and interrogations at gunpoint. The document will be released to the public by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 2006 (see May 2, 2006). Of the 62 cases, 26 involve detainee deaths. Some have already gone through courts-martial proceedings. The cases involve allegations from Abu Ghraib, Camp Cropper, Camp Bucca, and other sites in Mosul, Samarra, Baghdad, and Tikrit, and the Orgun-E facility in Afghanistan. [American Civil Liberties Union, 5/2/2006]
Entity Tags: US Department of the Army
In response to what the five Britons released from Guantanamo (see March 9, 2004) have claimed about the abuses they suffered during their stay at the US detention camp, John Sifton from Human Rights Watch says, "It is now clear that there is a systemic problem of abuse throughout the US military's detention facilities—not merely misbehavior by a few bad apples."
[Observer, 5/16/2004]
Entity Tags: John Sifton
A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document shows that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the supreme commanding officer of US forces in Iraq, approved of extreme interrogation methods to be used by military interrogators against detainees. A DIA officer in charge of a team of interrogators states that there is a 35-page order spelling out the rules of engagement that interrogators are supposed to follow, and that they are encouraged to "go to the outer limits to get information from the detainees by people who wanted the information." When asked to whom the officer is referring, the officer answers, "LTG Sanchez." The officer states that the expectation coming from "headquarters" is to break the detainees. [American Civil Liberties Union, 5/2/2006]
Entity Tags: Ricardo S. Sanchez, Defense Intelligence Agency
A heavily redacted e-mail shows that either a military officer or government official is told that three reports of detainee abuse from Iraq are "probably true/valid." One detainee was "in such poor physical shape from obvious beatings that [name redacted] asked the MPs to note his condition before he proceeded with interrogation." Another detainee was "in such bad shape… that he was laying down in his own feces." These cases seem to have occurred in Abu Ghraib and Camp Cropper. The e-mail will be released in 2006 (see May 2, 2006). [American Civil Liberties Union, 5/2/2006]
An Iraqi detainee in US custody in Tikrit charges that he has been beaten and shocked with a taser. A US military medic examines the prisoner and finds evidence confirming his allegations. The medic states, "Everything he described he had on his body." Yet the medic gives the detainee Tylenol and clears him for further interrogations. There are no indications that the medic ever reports the abuse. [American Civil Liberties Union, 5/2/2006]
A lawyer, who has been in regular communication with military officials about the problem of prisoner abuse, tells the Telegraph of London that the soon-to-be-released Fay report (see August 25, 2004) is a whitewash: "This is a whitewash—a carefully orchestrated one. People in the Pentagon have been coming to me in a fury because of the way this has been handled. By naming military intelligence officials as well as the seven military police who have been charged, it will look like action has been taken. But basically it's still the same storyline of just a few bad apples, way down the food chain."
[Sunday Telegraph, 8/15/2004]
During the presentation and discussion of the Schlesinger report (see August 24, 2004) before the House Armed Services Committee, most Republicans, including its chairman, Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA), say the investigation shows that only a handful of US soldiers were responsible for the abuses. Democrats however, like Representative Ike Skelton (D-MO), disagree. "We must not continue to call this the work of just a few bad apples," Skelton says. [New York Times, 9/10/2004]
Entity Tags: Duncan Hunter, Ike Skelton
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives, Civil Liberties
Senator Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, releases a statement condemning the allegations of the abuse and torture of Iraqi and Afghan detainees; the statement coincides with a letter Leahy sends to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. [Pyes, 9/20/2004] In the statement, Leahy says that committee chairman Sen. John Warner's efforts to investigate the scandals "remain… hampered by the leadership of his own party and an Administration that does not want the full truth revealed.… Despite calls from a small handful of us who want to find the truth, Congress and this Administration have failed to seriously investigate acts that bring dishonor upon our great Nation and endanger our soldiers overseas.… The Bush Administration circled the wagons long ago and has continually maintained that the abuses were the work of 'a few bad apples.' I have long said that somewhere in the upper reaches of the executive branch a process was set in motion that rolled forward until it produced this scandal. Even without a truly independent investigation, we now know that the responsibility for abuse runs high up into the chain of command." He accuses the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate as a whole, of falling "short in its oversight responsibilities." He calls for a truly independent investigation into the torture allegations, along the lines of the 9/11 Commission. He also calls for the US to once again begin following the guidelines of the Geneva Conventions. [US Senate, 10/1/2004] Sen. Warner's office will later admit that Warner was pressured by unnamed Bush administration officials to "back off" investigating the Abu Ghraib abuses (see May 2004).
Entity Tags: US Department of Defense, Patrick J. Leahy, John W. Warner, Donald Rumsfeld, US Department of the Army
The Army decides not to prosecute unnamed soldiers for killing an Iraqi detainee and attempting to cover up the death. The soldiers were stationed at Forward Operating Base Rifles near Al Asad, Iraq. In January 2004, several soldiers assaulted an Iraqi detainee. One lifted the detainee up from the floor by placing a baton under his chin, fracturing the detainee's hyoid bone and causing his death. The soldiers were charged with negligent homicide, and with additional charges of conspiracy and making false statements. Apparently, the soldiers receive nothing more than written letters of reprimand and counseling. The officer completing the Commander's Report on the offense writes, "Soldier should not be titled for any offense." The detainee's name is not revealed to the public. [US Department of Defense, 3/5/2005 ; American Civil Liberties Union, 5/2/2006]
A scene of a US soldier aiming his weapon from the 'Ramadi Madness' videotapes. [Source: Miami New Times]The Palm Beach Post releases two undated videos from Iraq that the government had refused to release to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The videos, part of a set which will become known as the "Ramadi Madness" videos, were made by members of the West Palm Beach-based Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, stationed in Ramadi in 2002 and 2003. The videos are divided into segments called, among other titles, "See Haj Run" and "Blood Clot," and depict scenes of urban fighting and Iraqis being captured and detained by US forces. In 2006, the government will authenticate the videos as being genuine (see May 2, 2006). The videos combine to make an approximately 26-minute long "crude documentary," according to the Post, "created by a couple of [Bravo Company] sergeants." The films were examined by Army investigators, who eventually concluded that they showed "inappropriate behaviors" but nothing criminal. The Post describes the videotaped scenes as ranging "from routine to poignant to macabre." One shows a US soldier moving the hand of a dead Iraqi truck driver to "make him say 'Hi.'" Another shows two soldiers pretending to choke a third with a plastic handcuff. A snippet entitled "Haji Cat" shows soldiers feeding and cuddling a kitten, which they've named "Anthrax." Another shows an injured Iraqi man being pulled from the sidewalk into a building by other Iraqis. A later video shows an Iraqi prisoner on the ground with his hands bound and an off-screen voice saying, "I don't know what the [expletive] this guy did, but he is a bad guy"; another detainee is receiving medical treatment for a head wound and being told to "smile for the camera." A small group of soldiers interrogates a detainee. One video shows a homemade bomb made with plastic explosives packed in a rusted oil can. The "Blood Clot" video shows a US soldier kicking a wounded Iraqi and explaining, "This [expletive] shot at me." The video moves to a close-up of an Iraqi detainee's gunshot wound, then shows a group of women being detained while an off-screen voice declares, "Bad women." One of the more graphic videos is titled "Friends Don't Let Friends Play with Explosives." It begins with a camera shot of burned and dismembered corpses, with an off-screen voice saying, "There's the crater," and, "That's what you get, [expletive]." A soldier points to human remains and pokes the remains across the ground with his foot. Voices are heard off-screen, saying, "Oh, that's part of his skull," "That's where the guy got thrown against the wall," and, "They were setting the explosive, and it blew up on them." Finally, "That's your brain on idiocy" is said as the camera focuses on another pile of remains. [Palm Beach Post, 3/13/2005; American Civil Liberties Union, 5/2/2006] The Army will not charge anyone over the actions depicted in the videotapes. [Associated Press, 3/4/2005]
Entity Tags: Palm Beach Post, American Civil Liberties Union, US Department of the Army
Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of US forces in Iraq, ordered military interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees (see May 19, 2004). The documents also show that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. ACLU executive director Anthony Romero says: "When our leaders allow and even encourage abuse at the 'outer limits,' America suffers. A nation that works to bring freedom and liberty to other parts of the world shouldn't stomach brutality and inhumanity within its ranks. This abuse of power was engineered and accepted at the highest levels of our government." The ACLU also releases an April 2004 information paper entitled "Allegations of Detainee Abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan" that outlined the status of 62 investigations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib (see April 2, 2004). According to the ACLU, the documents show that, far from being the work of "a few bad apples" as alleged by President Bush and other White House officials (see Mid-May 2004, August 2004, September 10, 2004, and October 1, 2004), the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was systematic and authorized by high-level officials, including Sanchez. "These documents are further proof that the abuse of detainees was widespread and systemic, and not aberrational," says ACLU attorney Amrit Singh. "We know that senior officials endorsed this abuse, but these officials have yet to be held accountable." Other documents show that US soldiers escaped prosecution after killing a detainee in their custody (see March 3, 2005), several reports of detainee abuse are considered "true/valid" (see May 25, 2004), and a military doctor cleared a detainee for further interrogations even after documenting injuries inflicted by beatings and electric shocks (see June 1, 2004). [American Civil Liberties Union, 5/2/2006]
Entity Tags: Amrit Singh, American Civil Liberties Union, US Department of the Army, Ricardo S. Sanchez, George W. Bush, Anthony D. Romero
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Cream Scones
I've only had scones once or twice in my life, and while I thought they were good, I'd never really given serious thought to making them. Plus Mike claims he doesn't like scones at all (too dry), so that didn't give me much motivation to try them. But for some reason when I saw this recipe online, and I figured out that I had all the ingredients, it seemed like the perfect Friday night activity, and the perfect accompaniment to the breakfast for dinner I had planned for that night.
These were great. Light and flaky and chocolately and wonderful. Actually, I'm not sure how a scone is supposed to taste, but these are really good. We ate one warm out of the oven, and even Mike rated them a 3. That's pretty good for someone who doesn't even like scones…although maybe that means they don't actually taste like scones…
Anyway, I recommend trying these. The original recipe called for chopped currants, which naturally I substituted with miniature chocolate chips. 🙂
Cream Scones
2 cups (10 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons chilled, unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch cubes
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream
Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 425 degrees.
Place flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in large bowl or work bowl of food processor fitted with steel blade. Whisk together or pulse six times.
If making by hand, use two knives, a pastry blender or your fingertips and quickly cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal, with a few slightly larger butter lumps. Stir in chocolate chips. If using food processor,remove cover and distribute butter evenly over dry ingredients. Cover and pulse 12 times, each pulse lasting 1 second. Add chocolate chips and pulse one more time. Transfer dough to large bowl.
Stir in heavy cream with a rubber spatula or fork until dough begins to form, about 30 seconds.
Transfer dough and all dry, floury bits to countertop and knead dough by hand just until it comes together into a rough, sticky ball, 5 to 10 seconds. Form scones by pressing the dough into an 8-inch cake pan, then turning the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface, cutting the dough into 8 wedges with either a knife or bench scraper
Place rounds or wedges on ungreased baking sheet and bake until scone tops are light brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on wire rack for at least 10 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Cano, Tex receive Gold Glove Awards
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NEW YORK -- Robinson Cano and Mark Teixeira picked up some hardware on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, as the infielders received their 2012 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards in an on-field ceremony.
The Gold Glove Award was Teixeira's fifth and Cano's second. Teixeira committed just one error in 1,055 total chances last season, owning a .999 fielding percentage to surpass Don Mattingly's franchise-record .998 mark for first basemen set in 1994.
Cano led all American League second basemen with 726 chances last year, finishing second in the league to Dustin Pedroia of the Red Sox with a .992 fielding percentage while committing just six errors.
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Ready for more muffins?
I did tell you that I have been in a muffin mood lately. Blueberry muffins have always been my favorite muffin. I rarely stray from my typical recipe (since it is so delicious), but thought I would try to make a version with some oats. I was quite pleased with this version and they make the perfect quick breakfast when you have to nurse a baby and take care of a toddler. I realize that most of you aren't in the same situation as me, so these are also great for a quick breakfast on your way to work or for a slow breakfast when you want to sit and enjoy. I individually wrapped each muffin in plastic wrap and froze them in a freezer bag. All you have to do is unwrap and microwave 30 seconds for perfection.
Crumble topped Blueberry Oat Muffins
recipe inspired by allrecipes.com
makes 12-15 muffins
for the muffins:
1 cup quick cooking oats
2/3 cup orange juice
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg, beaten
1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries, dusted in 1 tablespoon flour to prevent sinking
for the topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup quick cooking oats
1 tablespoons flour
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 tablespoons butter
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper liners. In a small bowl mix the oats and orange juice together and set aside.
To make the topping, mix the brown sugar, oats, four, and cinnamon in a bowl. Add butter using either a fork, pastry cutter, or your fingers until you have a crumb. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking power, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. Using a whisk, blend in the oil, vanilla, and egg. Gently stir in the oar mixture and fold in the blueberries. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups. Top each muffin with crumble topping.
Bake 18 - 20 minutes until lightly golden and a knife inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.


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Updated Dec. 10, 2012
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
A questionable history of sexual indiscretions caught up with the man considered to be the next president of France, but not enough to bring him down.
(Editor's Note: On August 23, 2011 all criminal charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn were dismissed by the New York Supreme Court at the request of the Manhattan Attorney General's Office.
On December 10, 2012 New York Supreme Court Justice Douglas E. McKeon announced in court in the Bronx that the civil suit filed against Strauss-Kahn by former hotel housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo had been settled in his chambers 10 minutes earlier. Ms. Diallo said after the hearing, "I thank everyone all over the world who supported me and everyone at the court. God bless you." The terms of the settlement were kept confidential by agreement of both parties. Attorneys for Strauss-Kahn adamantly denied a report in a French newspaper that the settlement was for $6 million.)
by Don Fulsom
"I deny in the strongest possible terms the allegations which I now face; I am confident that the truth will come out and I will be exonerated. In the meantime, I cannot accept that the Fund—and you dear colleagues—should in any way have to share my own personal nightmare. So, I had to go."
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in an e-mail to employees of the Washington, D.C.-based International Monetary Fund after tendering his resignation as its $500,000-a-year managing director.
Few Americans had ever heard of Dominique Strauss-Kahn when news broke that New York detectives had snatched him from a soon-to-depart Paris-bound jetliner and charged him with attempted rape. His arrest came with lightning speed on Saturday afternoon. May 14, 2011.
A powerful French politician and a top global economist, Strauss-Kahn maintained such a low U.S. profile that—even weeks after his arrest rocked the French political landscape—many people in the States still best knew him as "the French IMF Guy."
This "guy," it was later realized, had been the likely next president of France. Polls there had predicted Strauss-Kahn would have defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy by a 61-to-39-percent margin.
Following his dramatic capture aboard Air France Flight 23 at JFK, Strauss-Kahn traded his cushy first-class seat for an ordinary chair at a cop shop—the Harlem headquarters of the Manhattan Special Victims Squad, a unit that deals with sexual offenses. He spent most of that Saturday night sitting in that chair, sometimes with his feet up on another chair. Early Sunday evening, his accuser—a maid at the luxury Manhattan hotel, the Sofitel, where Strauss-Kahn had been a guest—was brought to the squad's office. Nafissatou Diallo, a 33-year-old immigrant from Guinea, quickly identified him from a lineup.
Diallo claims that, early Saturday afternoon, a naked Strauss-Kahn chased her down the hallway and into the bedroom of his marble-floored, $3,000-a-night suite. There he allegedly grabbed her breasts, and attempted to rip off her pantyhose. He then dragged her into a bathroom and forced her to perform fellatio, she told police.
The woman says she eventually freed herself, rushed from the suite and told her co-workers—who then called police. Several reports say blood was found on the bed sheets. Both the New York Daily News and the Herald de Paris claim semen from Strauss-Kahn was found on the maid's clothing. In fact, Strauss-Kahn's semen was found on Diallo's dress and his skin was on her pantyhose and underwear.
Diallo is a single mother with an estimated annual income of $23,000. Her lawyer, Jeffrey Shapiro, told the Daily News his client is eager to talk: "What's most important is her integrity and that the truth comes out." …"She wants to testify. She wants to see this thing through."
A source told the A.P. that Strauss-Kahn made moves on other hotel staffers the day before his alleged attack on the maid. He is said to have unsuccessfully flirted with a clerk, and struck out again when he tried to lure another female Sofitel employee to his suite.
After being identified in a lineup by Diallo, the IMF head was soon sitting in a Rikers Island prison cell. He was outfitted with cheap prison apparel after handing over his astonishingly high-priced hand-made business suit to his jailers.
Even before DSK's arrest, Washington tailor Georges de Paris had told a French publication he sold the IMF boss suits costing up to $35,000. Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn demanded that de Paris retract what they termed a "falsehood" that was "deeply injurious" to their client's reputation. De Paris told the New York Post he refused to sign a statement that he has "never met" Strauss-Kahn and that the IMF chief "has never purchased anything from me or my business."
So, just what kind of a guy wears a $35,000 suit? One who's paid lavish bucks to keep up with the world's other finely attired high fliers. Strauss-Kahn's IMF pay was about $421,000-a-year, according to the Associated Press, and he was guaranteed another $75,000-a-year "allowance," so he could—as his contract said – maintain "a scale of living appropriate to your position." The "allowance" did not require Strauss-Kahn to provide "any certification or justification" for just how the money was spent.
While at Rikers, Strauss-Kahn was put on a "suicide watch"—though he apparently was not suicidal enough to later be released on house arrest.
Strauss-Kahn's U.S. indictment – and all the attention it has brought to his past sexual escapades – has most likely shattered his political dreams.
Yet the first reaction to Strauss-Kahn's arrest in France, according to French journalist Apolline de Malherbe, was one of denial—that the story just couldn't be true and must have involved a plot of some kind. She tells The Washingtonian, the French next decided to blame the U.S. Justice system:
"In France, it's illegal to show pictures of someone in handcuffs who has yet to be convicted of a crime. That sort of practice is considered disrespectful of the notion of "innocent until proven guilty." Not only had the world seen images of a man who had yet to come to trial, but also he was unshaven and wore a wrinkled shirt, his hands bound."
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn't exactly respect the "innocent until proven guilty" idea either. In responding to criticism of the mandatory "perp walk," according to The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg said, "It think it's humiliating, but if you don't want to do the perp walk, don't do the crime."
Apolline de Malherbe observes that the French view of Strauss-Kahn's U.S. legal troubles seems to be changing: "Questions now being raised in France go deep into the nature of our culture. How private is the private life of a politician? Should France's onetime political savior is now dubbed "Le Perv" in New York's tabloids—which have also called him "an accused sex monster," a "frisky Frenchman," a "whiney fat cat," a "horny political bigwig" and the "jet-setting" "darling of the French left" who exudes "pompous arrogance."
After pleading not guilty, Strauss-Kahn was under house arrest – complete with a GPS monitoring anklet – at a $14 million Tribeca townhouse after his wealthy heiress wife, Anne Sinclair, posted bail of $1 million in cash and a $5 million bond to gain her hubby's freedom from Rikers. The three-level townhouse boasts a movie theater, luxury spa, waterfall showers, fitness center and roof terrace. It has four bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Under previous circumstances, Strauss-Kahn and his third wife divided their time between their $4 million home in Washington, D.C.'s exclusive Georgetown, a $2 million pad in Paris, and a holiday estate in Marrakech.
Of course, DSK might not have found complete comfort in his Tribeca digs. As one late night comedian observed: Being locked inside a house with an angry wife might be a fate far worse than solitary confinement.
Indicted on May 19, 2011, the silver-haired, corpulent, hawk-nosed 62-year-old stood accused of criminal sex, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching Diallo. The charges carry a sentence of up to 25 years in prison.
To keep him from returning to Rikers—or entering any other American prison—Strauss-Kahn has put together a multi-million dollar defense team. One lawyer, Washington insider William Taylor, represented DSK several years ago when he faced an internal IMF probe into an affair he carried on with a junior subordinate. Strauss-Kahn was reprimanded for bad judgment, but cleared of any wrongdoing.
Another of DSK's chief defenders is New York's renowned courtroom cross-examiner Benjamin Brafman. These big legal guns are expected to repeatedly stress that the maid consented to have sex with their client. The Los Angeles Times reports that attorneys "who have worked with and opposed Brafman say his technique is often to pick one or two factual issues and, starting with the pretrial publicity, hammer away at them. In this case, they predicted he would mold his defense around Strauss-Kahn's accuser, homing in on any weakness in her story or character he could dig up."
Jean-Dominique Merchet, a deputy editor at the weekly French magazine Marianne, had a similar take on France Info radio, according to The New York Times: "We're going to see the man who could have been the embodiment of the French left obligated – because the American judicial system that wants it –to crush this woman" … "It's going to be terrifying."
All of these predictions would come true on August 23, 2011 when New York Supreme Court Judge Michael J. Obus agreed to accept the Manhattan D.A.'s Office request to drop all charges against Strauss-Kahn.
In recommending dismissal of the attempted rape charges, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said, "Our inability to believe the complainant beyond a reasonable doubt means, in good faith, that we could not ask a jury to do that."
Prosecutors questioned the maid's credibility as early as July—so much so that Strauss-Kahn was then freed from house arrest.
Over the past few weeks, as the D.A.'s office showed signs of backing away from prosecuting the case, Diallo's attorney, Kenneth P. Thompson, tried to exert pressure by filing a civil suit against Strauss-Kahn and having Diallo give high-profile interviews about the alleged rape to Newsweek and ABC News. These initiatives were not enough to keep the criminal case alive.
On August 22, 2011 when the D.A.'s office asked the State Supreme Court to drop the criminal charges against DSK, Thompson said the D.A.'s motion to dismiss the case was "a hatchet job on Ms. Diallo's credibility," adding that the prosecutors "have basically adopted the defense arguments."
After the charges against him were dropped, DSK appeared before a mob of reporters in front of his Tribeca townhouse and summarized—in French—a printed statement he had issued earlier in English. In part, it said: "I want to thank all the friends in France and in the United States who have believed in my innocence, and to the thousands of people who sent us their support personally and in writing."
While Strauss-Kahn has managed to dodge facing trial on rape charges in the United States, he still faces a criminal complaint in France. There writer Tristane Banon claims he attempted to rape her during an interview she conducted with him in 2003. A British newspaper, The Independent, quotes Banon as saying: "We scuffled on the ground. I kicked him several times. He undid my bra and he tried to pull down my jeans. As we were fighting, I used the word 'rape' to try to scare him but it didn't scare him." She says she fled the scene; and that she did not report the incident at the time because her mother—a Socialist politician—persuaded her not to.
French police are investigating Banon's claim. As The Wall Street Journal reported August 23, 2011, "As soon as he sets foot in France, Mr. Strauss-Kahn is likely to be summoned for questioning by police."
Indeed, a month after Strauss-Kahn returned to France in August, French police brought him face-to-face with Banon for simultaneous questioning.
On October 13, 2011, French prosecutors decided to drop their investigation. They said Banon's allegations of attempted rape against DSK were too old to pursue.
The prosecutors said evidence collected by police suggested a sexual assault might have occurred, but not an attempted rape. In France, the lesser charge has a shorter statute of limitations that attempted rape – three years as compared to 10 for rape.
Denis Chemla, a prominent French lawyer who was not involved in the DSK case, said the prosecutors could not have acted otherwise. "When there is no material proof because there was no medical exam, no complaint filed at the time, [their decision] is absolutely logical," the lawyer told Bloomberg News.
Banon's lawyer, David Koubbi, said the prosecutors established "without reserve that the case is not empty and what [Banon] denounced is not imaginary." He added that the prosecutors have allowed DSK to "escape criminal conviction, but not a legitimate suspicion about his behavior towards women," according to The New York Times.
Although French authorities refused to press charges against Strauss-Kahn, Tristane Banon is far from through with him. This month her expose of her experiences with DSK, entitled The Hypocrites Ball, was published.


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The decision to discipline or dismiss an employee from the University is one that should not be made in haste and should always be made in consultation with the Employee Relations staff of the Office of Human Resources.
Every disciplinary situation is unique and has serious implications both for the employee and the University in terms of how the disciplinary action is administered.
Basic Guidelines
- Supervisors and managers should adopt a progressive approach to discipline. What that means is that the disciplinary action taken generally starts at the lowest appropriate level. If an offenses is not so serious such that it warrants immediate termination, a supervisor might begin by counseling the employee, then moving to an oral warning and next to a written warning. Employee Relations staff can assist supervisors in determining the first step and in the preparation of appropriate corrective actions to address the issue.
- For more serious issues or ones in which the above described actions have been unsuccessful in improving employee performance or changing behavior, supervisors may need to use suspension, demotion, or dismissal. None of these three actions may be taken without first consulting with Human Resources.
- The decision to use suspension, demotion, or dismissal must never be taken lightly and must be carefully investigated before proceeding. These three actions require a two step process that must be followed. For specifics on the required process supervisors and managers must follow when considering action against Classified staff, please consult the University's Discipline and Dismissal Policy Section III, paragraphs C through E.
- In accordance with University policy, employees may grieve or appeal (depending on the action taken) disciplinary actions. When disciplinary actions are necessary, employees should be advised of their rights under the Grievance Policy and the Discipline and Dismissal Policy.
- Employees who are in their probation period at UT Dallas fall under a different policy. The Probationary Employee Discipline and Dismissal Policy stipulates that classified employees who have not served their 180 day probation period can be dismissed during this period. In addition to completing the required new employee evaluations during the first, third and before the end of the classified employee's sixth month, the employees should have a clear understanding of the supervisor's expectations, the supervisor has communicated these expectations to the employee, the supervisor has provided feedback to employee on necessary corrective actions that must be made in order to be successful in their job, and the supervisor has maintained appropriate documentation during the employee's probationary period. In other words, supervisors and managers should be thoughtful and proactive and will always consult first with Human Resources before taking any disciplinary actions against an employee in the probation period.
It is the policy of The University of Texas at Dallas to encourage fair, efficient and equitable solutions for problems arising out of the employment relationship and to meet the requirements of state and federal law. The above guidelines and cited policies reflect the efforts of Human Resources to ensure that such actions take place. All Classified and Administrative and Professional staff are at-will employees who serve without tenure. No provision of any UT Dallas policy shall confer rights to employees that are contrary to the employment-at-will doctrine.
Coaching, Counseling, Correction, Documentation
Coaching, counseling and correction describe a progressive approach to applying the University's disciplinary policy. When disciplinary actions are needed, supervisors should adopt a progressive approach to correcting the performance or behavioral issue. For a sample but non exhaustive list of performance and behavioral issues that may result in disciplinary action, please consult Section III B of the Discipline and Dismissal Policy.
Generally speaking, a supervisor begins a disciplinary action at the lowest level. If that is unsuccessful in remedying the problem, the supervisor might move to the next level, repeat the same process, or even skip a level. It all would depend upon the facts of the case at hand. In the case of a situation where an employee's performance or behavior has become sufficiently severe, the supervisor may have to implement immediate termination. In such cases, a supervisor must consult with Employee Relations staff before starting dismissal actions against the employee.
Coaching is what it appears to be. A supervisor meets with an employee. The purpose of the meeting is straightforward —performance is not what it should be. The focus of the coaching session is to determine what needs to be done to help the employee improve performance or correct inappropriate workplace behaviors. The supervisor (i.e.: the coach) and the employee map out plan of action. The employee implements the plan. The supervisor monitors the process —recognizing success and offering constructive feedback if the performance is still lagging where it should be. A good tool for coaching employees when they are having some performance problems is the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP [Performance Improvement Plan] ).
Counseling is similar to coaching in that it shares the same goal, improving performance and/or stopping inappropriate workplace behaviors. With counseling, however, the meeting between the supervisor and the employee takes on a different feel. In such meetings the supervisor attempts to understand and identify the issues contributing to the performance or behavioral problem. Accordingly, in a counseling meeting, the supervisor is focused on listening, verifying their understanding of the problem and engaging in problem solving with the employee. Like the coaching transaction, the supervisor and the employee leave the counseling meeting with a corrective plan in mind. Counseling is letting the employee know that the supervisor takes the issue seriously and wants to help them get past it. At the same time, the message is clear from the supervisor —the employee's performance must improve, behaviors must change, or more serious steps will have to be taken.
This part of the disciplinary process features increasingly formal and more serious efforts to correct the problem. Such corrective actions tend to follow a fairly common pattern. The supervisor then escalates the intervention depending upon the response of employee or the seriousness of the issue being addressed.
Oral Warning
An oral warning is a discussion between the supervisor and the employee which identifies the problem issue and communicates a clear expectation that changes must be forthcoming or more a more serious disciplinary step will follow. The next step does not automatically follow but in many cases an oral warning that is not heeded results in the next step.
Written Warning
A written warning is a formal document created by the supervisor and given to the employee. The written warning is used when previous efforts to correct the deficient performance or behavior has failed. Depending upon the circumstances, a problem may be sufficiently severe such that a supervisor decides to move directly to a written warning. Written warnings are signed by the employee and supervisor. If witnesses are present, they too sign the warning. A copy of the warning is sent to Human Resources where it is placed in the employee's personnel file.
Suspension, Demotion, Dismissal
These three actions represent the most serious steps in the disciplinary process because they result in serious job-altering consequences for the employee. Typically, they would be implemented only after the other efforts have been unsuccessful.
Supervisors must consult with Employee Relations staff before administering any of the above corrective actions. Various forms of technical assistance and training and are available.
Documentation is necessary to support the discipline imposed. Supervisors who cannot provide documentation may be asked to defer imposing some disciplinary actions. All the above corrective actions should always be documented. Good documentation is imperative in today's workplace. Contact Employee Relations staff for guidelines on documenting disciplinary actions.
It is the policy of The University of Texas at Dallas to encourage fair, efficient and equitable solutions for problems arising out of the employment relationship and to meet the requirements of state and federal law. The above guidelines and cited policies reflect the efforts of Human Resources to ensure that such actions take place. All Classified and Administrative and Professional staff are at-will employees who serve without tenure. No provision of any UT Dallas policy shall confer rights to employees that are contrary to the employment-at-will doctrine.
Suspension, Demotion, Dismissal
Every employee of the University is expected to know and understand the performance criteria for their particular job with all rules, procedures and standards of conduct. Employees who do not fulfill the responsibilities set out by such performance criteria, rules, procedures and standards of conduct may be subject to adverse personnel actions such as suspension, demotion, or dismissal. Certain employees may not fall under the scope of this University policy. For specifics as to who is covered, consult Section II of the Discipline and Dismissal Policy.
The decision to take one of these actions should not be made in haste. It requires serious attention and action. Such decisions should always be made in consultation with the Employee Relations staff of Human Resources.
Conduct Subject to Suspension, Demotion, or Dismissal
- The failure of an employee to maintain satisfactory work standards can constitute cause for disciplinary action, including dismissal. Work performance includes all aspects of the employee's work.
- Employees who fail to maintain standards of conduct suitable and acceptable to the work environment can also constitute cause for disciplinary action, including dismissal.
Supervisors who are considering suspension, demotion, or dismissal must carefully investigate the matter before proceeding to action. All three disciplinary actions require a two step process that must be followed. This following information is a summary of the Discipline and Dismissal Policy, Section III, paragraphs C through E.
Notice of Intent
According to University policy, the supervisor will conduct a "pre-disciplinary hearing" to inform the employee of the supervisors intent to proceed with a disciplinary action of suspension, demotion, or dismissal. This "hearing" should be informal. It may be communicated in person or in writing and should include the proposed disciplinary action and the basis for this proposed action. The employee must be given a reasonable amount of time to respond to the supervisor and provide evidence why the proposed disciplinary action should be rescinded.
Final Notice
Once the employee responds to the supervisor's notice of intended action, it is up to the supervisor to review the response and determine if the evidence presented is sufficiently compelling to rescind the intended action. If they are not persuaded by reasons offered by the employee, the supervisor will notify Human Resources staff and obtain the approval of the appropriate department head or equivalent before proceeding with the proposed disciplinary penalty. Once all notifications and approvals are made, the supervisor will, in writing, inform the employee of the decision to impose the penalty along with the reasons for the disciplinary action, effective date, and the employee's right of appeal.
Classified employees have the right to appeal a disciplinary action involving one the above three actions. Employees should review Section IV of the Discipline and Dismissal Policy. Employee Relations staff from Human Resources are available to assist the employee and answer questions about their rights and the appeal process under the University policy.
Employee Rights
The University of Texas at Dallas is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action University. As such, every employee of UT Dallas should expect to be treated fairly and with dignity and respect. In addition, every employee should understand their responsibility to treat others in the same manner.
Grievance Process
Under the University's Grievance Policy, employees have the right to register a complaint or file a grievance related to wages, hours of work, working conditions, performance evaluations, merit raises, job assignments, reprimands, and the interpretation or application of a rule, regulation or policy. For specifics on the nature, format and procedures to follow, please consult the policy. The grievance is fundamentally a departmental process. As such, Human Resources does not administer the grievance process. We are, however, available to consult with employees in reviewing options, alternatives and procedures related to the grievance process at UT Dallas.
A student, faculty, or staff member who retaliates in any way against an individual who has brought a grievance pursuant to this policy or who has participated in good faith in preparing, presenting or investigating a grievance, is subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal from the University.
Appealing a Suspension, Demotion, or Dismissal
University policy also provides certain employees the right to appeal disciplinary actions involving suspension, demotion, or dismissal. The Discipline and Dismissal Policy provides specific steps for employees who are subject to one of these personnel actions to appeal the process. Employees should review the policy for more information. University policy specifies that not all positions at UT Dallas have access to this provision of the policy. Consult Section II of the policy to review the scope and limitations of this policy provision.
The University is committed to equitable treatment of all employees. Employees who have questions or concerns about their rights, the scope of these policies, or the procedures to follow are encouraged to contact the Employee Relations staff of the Office of Human Resources.


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Money may still not grow on trees, but scientists from Michigan State University have discovered the next closest thing: bacteria that can transform toxic chemicals into pure, 24-karat gold, according to MSU News.
The bacterium with the Midas touch, Cupriavidus metallidurans, was coaxed into producing real gold nuggets simply by exposing it to copious amounts of gold chloride, a toxic liquid substance with no actual value but which is found naturally in the environment. The bacterium gobbles up the gold chloride, ingesting all of the liquid's toxins and waste, and leaves behind only solid gold. It just goes to show that one bacterium's waste is another organism's treasure.
"Microbial alchemy is what we're doing — transforming gold from something that has no value into a solid, precious metal that's valuable," said Kazem Kashefi, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Michigan State University.
Kashefi, along with associate professor of electronic art and intermedia Adam Brown, conceived of the method. Rather than get rich, the two professors are instead using their gold-producing bacteria as part of an art exhibit titled, "The Great Work of the Metal Lover." The exhibit makes use of the researchers' odd visionary combination of biotechnology, art and alchemy to produce gold in front of an audience. The work received an honorable mention at the Prix Ars Electronica cyber art convention. (There was no evidence of the researchers paying off the judges with gold nuggets.)
"This is neo-alchemy. Every part, every detail of the project is a cross between modern microbiology and alchemy," explained Brown. "Science tries to explain the phenomenological world. As an artist, I'm trying to create a phenomenon. Art has the ability to push scientific inquiry."
The analogy to alchemy, the ancient practice of transforming base metals into noble metals like gold or silver, is an apt one. Although the practices of ancient alchemists have been widely debunked as pseudoscience and charlatanism, Kashefi and Brown's method could rewrite the history books.
The gold produced using this method is also as pure as it gets: 99.9 percent pure. But is lab-produced gold as valuable as natural gold? Kashefi and Brown have yet to test the market on that, but they suspect the method they use in the lab is similar to how many gold nuggets get produced in nature. After all, both gold chloride and Cupriavidus metallidurans occur naturally. All it takes is for the two of them to naturally run into each other.
Given that the price of gold is currently through the roof, you might already have gotten the idea to begin duplicating this process in your garage. But before you get that twinkle in your eye, keep in mind that Kashefi and Brown have already crunched the numbers, and they attest that the experiment is not cost-effective enough to turn a worthy profit.
And besides, if gold really was so easy to produce, its value would undoubtedly sink.
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It's official. We are no longer residents of Tampa, Florida and are now citizens of Jacksonville, Florida. The move was interesting to say the least. We were lucky enough to have movers, but the movers were not the stand up group I was expecting. Three guys showed up, 2 hours late, to move us. So I already had 1 strike against them…but even better two of them were ex cons and one of them had 4 teardrop tattoos. You know the teardrop tattoo that means they killed someone. Ya that kind…so I spent most of the time hiding around outside while they packed coming up with ideas of how he killed the 4 people. Most of my scenarios came from Criminal Minds…my favorite being the one where Shemar Moore took off his shirt and saved me from 'The Tear Drop Killer' (you know the name we so cleverly came up with together). I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover…but I think you shouldn't advertise that you killed people…ON YOUR FACE. Anyways, long story short, we are here!
And this is where all the recipes on this blog will be coming from for the next 2 years! I am super thrilled to have such a spacious kitchen considering we are renting a condo! Our last place was like cooking in a box…seriously a rectangle, tiny, box! Anyways the kitchen is still a work in progress of course…and I still have to figure out what to put on top of the cabinets. Any ideas?
While the kitchen may look "moved in" the bedrooms are still a huge work in progress…and with being so busy, dinners have been a lot of easy things like sandwiches, pizzas, and cereal. But there are only so many days of that before we started going a little cereal insane. So I hit up some of my favorite bloggers for their favorite chicken marinades. Josie from Pink Parsley suggested this Grilled Rosemary Chicken recipe and I am so glad I tried it! We loved it! And I loved that it was incredibly easy and took little effort on my part! Definitely something we will be having often on our new grill thanks to my Mom and Dad!
Grilled Rosemary Honey Mustard Chicken
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed of excess fat
- 1/2 lemon
Combine the garlic, oil, mustard, vinegar, honey, brown sugar, salt, pepper and rosemary in a shallow dish or large ziploc bag. Add the chicken and turn to coat. Allow to marinate chilled for at least one hour or, up to 24 hours.
Prepare grill. Grill chicken breasts 5-7 minutes per side, or until an internal temperature of 161 has been reached. Remove from grill and cover with aluminum foil. Allow to rest 5 minutes, then top with the juice of 1/2 a lemon before serving.
Adapted from Pink Parsley, originally from Southern Living, September 2008


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OILSEEDS: Total U.S. oilseed production for 2012/13 is projected at 91.4 million tons, up 3.2 million from last month due to higher soybean, peanut, and cottonseed production. Soybean production is forecast at 2.971 billion bushels, up 111 million from last month. The soybean yield is forecast at 39.3 bushels per acre, up 1.5 bushels as several states show the benefit of late-season rainfall. Soybean crush is raised 20 million bushels to 1.56 billion based on increased soybean meal export prospects. Soybean exports are raised 80 million bushels to 1.345 billion reflecting larger supplies and the strong pace of sales through October. Soybean ending stocks are projected at 140 million bushels, up 10 million from last month.
Soybean oil supplies for 2012/13 are raised this month as increased production more than offsets lower beginning stocks. Soybean oil domestic use is projected at 18 billion pounds with biodiesel use projected at 4.9 billion pounds. Soybean oil stocks are raised 250 million pounds to 1.52 billion on increased supplies. Prices for soybeans and products are all reduced this month. The U.S. season-average soybean price range is projected at $13.90 to $15.90 per bushel, down 35 cents on both ends of the range. The soybean meal price is projected at $455 to $485 per short ton, down 15 dollars on both ends of the range. The soybean oil price range is projected at 51 to 55 cents per pound, down two cents
on both ends.
Global oilseed production for 2012/13 is projected at 462.1 million tons, up 4.4 million tons from last month. Global soybean production accounts for about 75 percent of the increase with larger crops projected the United States and Ukraine. Increased harvested area and yields are projected for Ukraine as harvest nears completion. Global rapeseed production is raised due to larger crops in EU-27 and Belarus. Other changes include increased sunflowerseed production for Ukraine which is more than offset by reductions for Argentina and EU-27. Indonesia palm oil production is increased for both 2011/12 and 1012/13 based on increased area and yield projections.
Global oilseed trade for 2012/13 is projected at 114.7 million tons, up 2.4 million with increased soybean exports projected for the United States and Ukraine. Soybean imports are raised for several countries including China, Taiwan, EU-27, and Turkey. Global oilseed crush is raised 3.3 million tons to 392.4 million with higher projections for soybean crush in China, the United States, and EU-27, higher sunflowerseed crush in Ukraine, and higher rapeseed crush in China and Belarus. Increased crush results in higher projections for global vegetable oil and oilmeal production, trade, use, and stocks. Vegetable oil stocks are raised 2.5 million tons to 15.3 million with Indonesia palm oil stocks accounting for about half of the increase.
Coverage, Analysis of the Nov. 9 USDA Reports
See all of the data, coverage and analysis of today's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports.


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Crested Butte Music Festival 2012: Samuel Ramey, Marcello Giordani and bluegrass
The Crested Butte Music Festival is a hard-working summer celebration of fine art that can get overshadowed by the bigger Colorado fests in Aspen and Vail.
But it deserves your attention. Kicking off July 4, it's a rare and attractive combination of events. Classical music gets its due from the fest, but there's bluegrass and jazz, as well.
A few highlights:
* An Independence Day kick-off concert featuring the Boston Brass.
* The fest's "instrument of the year," the cimbalom, will be featured in a performance by Kálmán Balogh and the Festival Symphony Orchestra on July 18.


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Sir Mix-A-Lot was in a Twitter frenzy over the Seahawks game
He likes the 'Hawks and he cannot lie.
Sir Mix-A-Lot, the rap star famed for his 1992 rap hit Baby Got Back, was born and raised in Seattle and has been a lifelong fan of the city's sports teams. This, plus the Seahawks' 20-point NFC playoff deficit, subsequent comeback and eventual defeat, made Mix-A-Lot's Twitter feed just as entertaining as the game his squad lost to the Atlanta Falcons. And it didn't hurt that his Twitter rant happened while he says he was driving on the freeway.
Follow along through the madness of Sir Mix-A-Lot live-tweeting a crazy Seahawks game while behind the wheel of a car.
Damn, all my cats in the ATL are blowing up my text talkin hella mess
Those Atlanta cats tend to do that.
Who in the [expletive] makes that decision? Omg!!!!
The highlight of this tweet was the way Mix-A-Lot edited his expletive. Let's say he wanted to obscure some letters in the word "four." In Mix-A-Lot language, it would look like this: "f*^r." Two special characters in the middle of a curse word? It's all the more impressive when you consider he did this while driving.
Oh [expletive].... This is gettin ugly
Mix-A-Lot may like them round and big, but not when said round and big thing is a zero on the scoreboard.
Run the pistol!!! Damn
Little known fact, before he was knighted, he was known as Coach Mix-A-Lot.
I'm driving home through Cali and this has me pissed. Road rage time.
Via the California Department of Motor Vehicles:
23123.5. (a) A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while using an electronic wireless communications device to write, send, or read a text-based communication, unless the electronic wireless communications device is specifically designed and configured to allow voice-operated and hands-free operation to dictate, send, or listen to a text-based communication, and it is used in that manner while driving.
Since the Houston Texans are the Falcons of the AFC, I hope the Patriots kill em. #SoreLoser
At least he recognizes that he's a sore loser. Me, I just hold a grudge against the quarterback who beats my team for the rest of his career. (Looking at you, Russell Wilson.)
Omg!!! Can we just quit now
What kind of attitude is that? Would Mix-A-Lot have given up that easy if this weren't a game, but the pursuit of a girl with an itty-bitty waist and a round thing in his face?
The 11th "S" is how you know he's happy.
Driving hard and stressing out (attached: picture of a speedometer reading 80 mph)
Never explained: Why he didn't pull over to watch the game somewhere.
Yesssssssss. Ahhhhhhhhhh. Ohhhhhbhhhhhh [expleeeeeetive]
Kill the ref
Love the refs
!!!!!! Biggest road comeback in playoff history
Oh, Sir Mix-A-Lot. This is like watching a movie where you know the protagonist isn't going to have a happy ending. I wish 3 p.m. you could warn 1 p.m. you about this.
Toes crossed here
That can't be good for driving.
Why did Seattle call time out? Damn
See Pete Carroll? Sir Mix-A-Lot, toes crossed speeding down the 5 at 80 mph and listening to Dave Sims on the radio, knew to not call that timeout.
Oh no no no no no no no
It has all come crushing down. I hope he slowed to 75 mph for reflection.
Great game Atlanta. Good luck..... You [expletive]...... :-(
Kick them nasty thoughts, Sir Mix-A-Lot. Baby still got Russell Wilson for the next 15 years.


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|To Be Or Not To Be. That Is The Obsession: Existential And Philosophical Obsessions
To Be Or Not To Be. That Is The Obsession:
Existential And Philosophical Obsessions
By Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
Steve, a 26 year-old computer programmer: "I can't stop thinking about why we're all here and whether there's any purpose to life. I keep going over it in my mind all day long. I have continual thoughts of how one day I'll be dead and no one will remember me. It will be as if I never existed. Then I ask myself, what is the use of doing anything if we're all going to die anyway?"
Kristin, a 34 year-old homemaker: "I can't get the idea out of my head that everything I see isn't real. How do I know I'm not really in a coma, or else dreaming, and that my whole life is imaginary? I start to wonder if my husband and children are real and it frightens me terribly."
Marty, a 19 year-old college student: "Every day I spend hours looking at myself in the mirror and I wonder - Is this really me? How do I know? What makes me, me, and how do I know I am who I think I am? How do I know the things I feel are my own real feelings, or that my thoughts are my own real thoughts? I also keep thinking about how vast the universe is and how we're all just tiny specks that are meaningless. I keep thinking that because we are so insignificant, nothing we do matters, so why not give up on everything?"
What do all these people have in common? A type of OCD some refer to as "Existential Obsessions," or in some places, as "Philosophical Obsessions." This involves repetitive persistent questions which cannot possibly answered, and which may be philosophical or frightening, or both. The questions usually revolve around the meaning, purpose, or reality of life, the universe, existence, etc. These same questions might come up in a philosophy or physics class, however, most people can leave such classes or read about these topics and move on to other thoughts. As is the case with other forms of OCD, these people can't drop their ideas. It is often a difficult type of OCD to recognize, as it might resemble the questions many of us sometimes wonder about and then move on from with a shrug of the shoulders. It might also be confused with the kind of ruminations people experience when they are depressed, where they keep going over negative thoughts about the seeming meaninglessness of life. As a type of OCD, it is way beyond these things.
Sufferers typically spend hour going over and over these questions and ideas and may become extremely anxious and depressed. Sometimes, others simply label them as worries or existential fears, or diagnose them as suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder. When a person suffers ongoing, intrusive, repetitive, persistent, anxiety-producing, doubtful thoughts, it is most likely OCD.
Many people out there have a very stereotyped image of what OCD is all about. They generally see sufferers as people who either wash their hands too frequently, or who are super-organized and perfectionistic. While these may represent two specific types of OCD, they by no means represent the OCD population as a whole. There are literally dozens of forms that OCD may take. People's obsessions would only seem to be limited by the imagination. Why individuals come up with their own particular types of OCD is anyone's guess. We have no real answers to this question. Many sufferers also spend hours analyzing why they are having their particular thoughts and questioning exactly what they may mean. This activity is just another type of compulsion that accompanies their obsessive thoughts, and never leads to any true answers. If anything, it only leads to more obsessive questions. Sufferers just seem to get what they get.
Obsessive doubts cannot be argued with, reasoned out, analyzed, or questioned. They do not seem to come from the place where real thoughts come from. There are never any lasting answers to obsessive questions. Whatever answers they do come up with may only last a few minutes, but then quickly slip away in the face of newer doubts. The doubts may vary a bit, but are mostly variations on a theme. OCD is insidious, as it seems to have a way of finding out what will bother someone the most.
Most sufferers wear themselves out trying to find answers, or try to get the thoughts out of their heads, but these are the worst ways to deal with OCD. As mentioned previously, there are no answers to existential or any other obsessive questions. So what to do? Research tells us that cognitive/behavioral therapy (CBT) and medication are the best approaches to dealing with OCD. Those with mild OCD may not need medication, but the majority of suffers will always benefit from CBT. Some people go for the quick fix of relying only on medication, but it cannot change longstanding habits or your philosophy of how to deal with the things that scare you. The true purpose of medication in OCD treatment is that it makes it easier for you to do the therapy. The therapy, however, is ultimately what changes you.
Those in therapy learn to do the opposite of what their instincts tell them. Our intuition tells us to avoid or escape from things that make us anxious. Unfortunately, there is no escape from the things we fear, and there is definitely no escape from your own thoughts. You take your thoughts with you wherever you go. It is a paradox – the more you tell yourself to not think something, the more you then think of what you are not supposed to think about. Another feature is that the thoughts mostly seem to revolve around uncertainty, and we humans don't like uncertainty. In therapy, sufferers learn to face their thoughts and to build up a tolerance to them – the anxiety they produce and the uncertainty that goes along with them. In order to do this, they have to go against their instincts even agree with the thoughts and also try to think them more, rather than less. As we like to say, "If you want to think about it less, think about it more." This is what is included in CBT, in particular the type known as Exposure & Response Prevention. In the Exposure part, sufferers deliberately and gradually expose themselves to the feared thoughts and images, and even learn to agree with them. They learn to do this daily in a variety of ways that can include reading articles or books, watching videos, listening to home-made therapy recordings, writing feared words or sentences, actively agreeing with the thought of the moment, etc. As they do this, the thought gradually loses its impact, and even boredom can result. You can't stay anxious where nothing ever happens to you. I have always told my patients that you cannot be bored and scared at the same time. In the Response Prevention part, the goal is to not escape or avoid, so patients are taught to agree with the thoughts, and to not try to analyze, question, or argue with them. They are also discouraged from seeking reassurance from others or even themselves, as this is another form of escape. Over time, avoidance can become an overlearned habit that becomes very automatic. You can avoid seemingly without even thinking about it. Also, avoidance simply leads to more avoidance. How can you build up your tolerance to something you never come in contact with?
Some typical Exposure homework assignments might include:
· Making a series of gradually more challenging 2-minute recordings on your phone that tell you the fearful thought is true and listening to them several times daily
· Posting signs or notes around your house stating the feared idea
· Agreeing with the thoughts as much as possible whenever they occur, and also agreeing that there will be bad consequences because they are true
· Going to places and doing activities that bring on the thoughts
· Reading articles that seem to agree with the feared thoughts
· Watching videos or movies that bring on the thoughts
· Writing feared sentences 25x per day until you get bored with them (then write new ones)
Some typical Response Prevention homework assignments might include:
· Not arguing with, questioning, or analyzing the thoughts in any way
· Not seeking reassurance from yourself or anyone else
· Resisting looking up articles that disprove the thoughts or tell you they don't matter
· Not trying to discuss the topics with others
Acceptance is another very important piece of therapy. There are several things that need to be accepted:
· That you have OCD
· That there is no real explanation for why you have the particular thoughts you have
· That there are no real answers to your questions and doubts
· That the solutions you have previously come up with haven't worked, aren't working now, and will not work in the future, and therefore must be abandoned because there really is no escape
· That you can have thoughts of the type you experience, that they will not simply go away on their own, and that they can be lived with
· That your anxiety and uncertainty can ultimately be overcome but only by confronting them and building up your tolerance to them
· That it will take hard work, time, and practice to overcome your fears and the habits you have built up by avoiding
Most importantly, based upon what we now know about treating OCD, you do not have to suffer as you do on a daily basis. There is effective treatment out there and you would do well to find some. Every day you are not getting help is another day you have to suffer. If you aren't having much luck finding someone on your own, check out the Find A Therapist pages on the IOCDF website (www.ocfoundation.org).
|Last Updated on Monday, 10 March 2014 21:34
Please Note: Then information in this site is presented as a public service to our patients and friends. It is not a substitute for a careful evaluation by a qualified mental health professional. If you are already under treatment, do not make any changes in your regimen without consulting your doctor.
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- Call Me Irresponsible (OCD and hyperresponsibility)
- Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
- Contamination and OCD ("Stronger than Dirt")
- Do-it-Yourself Therapy: Self-Directed Treatment
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for an OCD Specialist
- Getting the Right Treatment (Finding proper CBT treatment for OCD and BFRBs)
- Here's Looking At You, Kid: People With OCD Who Notice Things Too Much
- How Clean is Clean? (Compulsive cleaning and ordering)
- How Do I Know I'm Not Gay? (Homosexuality obsessions)
- How I Treat Violent Obsessions
- How Much Is Too Much? (Taking a more humane approach to behavioral therapy)
- How to Manage Your Parents When You Have OCD (a guide for teens)
- In Search of the Elusive Behavior Therapist
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- Loves Me? Loves Me Not? (Relationship obsessions)
- Morbid Obsessions
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- Obsessive Love (When People Become "Obsessed" with Other People)
- Panic Disorder (General information)
- Samuel Johnson: A Patron Saint of OCD
- Saving the World (Compulsive Hoarding)
- Teens With Morbid Obsessions
- Ten Things You Need to Know to Overcome OCD
- A Touching Story (Touching and movement compulsions)
- Treating Morbid Obsessions
- Very Superstitious (Magical and superstitious obsessions)
- What Do You Say After You Say You're Sorry (Coming to terms after you recover from OCD)
- What The Heck Is "Obsessive Slowness?"
- When Epidemics Collide: OCD and AIDS
- Your Number is Up! ("Magical" numbers and OCD)
- Advice for Significant Others (Dealing with a TTM sufferer)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Trichotillomania
- Coming to Terms With Your Child's Hair Pulling
- Childhood Trichotillomania (Dealing with the reluctant child's pulling)
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for Your Treatment
- Inositol and Trichotillomania
- A Stimulus Regulation Model of Trichotillomania (Why people pull)
- Trichotillomania (General information)
- Unconditional Self Acceptance and Trichotillomania
- What Cognitive Therapy Can Do for TTM
- Skin-Picking and Nail-Biting - Related Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders: More Than "A Bad Case of Nerves"
- Common Questions, Myths and Misconceptions About Psychiatric Medicine
- Medications that Treat OCD and OC Spectrum Disorders
- OCD and Managed Care
- PANDAS: The OCD - Strep Connection
- Depression: from Children through Adults
- How Do I Know I'm Not Really Gay - Part 2
- How To Defeat OCD By Surrendering
- Living With Your Loved One's OCD: Some Advice For Significant Others
- NAC and Trichotillomania
- Stimulation Substitutes for Trichotillomania
- To Be Or Not To Be. That Is The Obsession: Existential And Philosophical Obsessions
- 25 Tips For Succeeding In Your OCD Therapy
- My Parents Don't Believe I Have OCD
- Both Ends Against The Middle: When OCD Tries To Disrupt Its Own Treatment
- Driven To Distraction: Hit and Run OCD


text: Washing machines committing suicide (or being injected with a lethal brick depending on your perspective) are home appliances' gift to the Internet. It's like the machines are realizing their full comedic potential! This one, in particular, is awesome because of how meticulously it breaks down. Little by little, piece by piece, you can't look away. [G4TV]


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Yuna vs. Aeris – Cosplay Clash
This is it, ladies and gents! Yuna has defeated every single opponent during the last week and now she only needs to beat one more in order to take a spot in the Arcade Sushi Cosplay Hall of Fame! But will she have what it takes to defeat fan favorite, Aeris?
Myrionette's Yuna joined the Clash and came out fighting just about a week ago and has not shown any sign of stopping her Doomtrain of wins. If she can defeat Aeris, she'll take her place next to Morrigan.
Adella's Aeris is Yuna's final opponent and is perhaps her strongest one yet. Aeris enjoys a lot of popularity because of the events in Final Fantasy 7, but can she harness all of that love to stop Yuna from reaching the top?
It's up to you to decide who will win this Cosplay Clash between these two titanic Final Fantasy figures! Voting closes on May 10th 10AM PST.
Rules of Cosplay Clash:
Fans can vote once per hour for their favorite cosplayer. If a cosplayer remains the reigning champ for seven straight matches, they are retired to the Arcade Sushi Cosplay Hall of Fame. With so many great cosplayers out there, we have to give other cosplayers a chance.


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A monster twister ripped through the town of Hattiesburg, destroying hundreds of homes and injuring at least 12.
As the East Coast of the United States was digging itself out of a blizzard on Sunday, a monster tornado ripped through the town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, destroying hundreds of homes and injuring at least 12.
"Jeff Rent of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said there were no immediate reports of deaths despite the widespread visible damage," reports USA Today's William M. Welch, and The Los Angeles Times's Marisa Gerber reports that the "University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg posted a statement on its website Sunday declaring a state of emergency, confirming damage to at least four campus buildings and asking students not to return to campus until further notice."
That textual description doesn't quite do the monster twister justice. According to Accuweather, the beast of a storm was "at least several football fields wide." And here's what that looks like:
And one more from a different angle:
And one more angle (not that there's some NSFW language):
And here's a picture of some of the damage that the cyclone brought:
Officials this morning are going door-to-door looking for survivors and the rescue operation in Hattiesburg is still ongoing, but thankfully no deaths have been reported at this time.
This post originally appeared on The Atlantic Wire.


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In 1837, a diminutive, neglected teenager is crowned Queen Victoria, navigates the scandal, corruption, and political intrigues of the Court, and soon rises to become the most powerful woman in the world. Victoria stars Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who) as Queen Victoria in a highly anticipated series that follows the drama of the candid, spirited monarch.
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