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Nathan Pittorf of Buffalo N.Y. drips candle wax onto a makeshift Elvis memorial on the street outside Graceland, the home of the late Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tenn. on Aug. 15. Elvis died at the mansion 35 years ago and his life and career is celebrated every year at this time during Elvis Week.
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The rise and fall of the King of rock 'n' roll.
Elvis Presley faithful from around the world flock to Memphis, Tenn. to visit Graceland, the home of the "King" who died 35 years ago Wednesday. A candlelight vigil is held every Aug. 15 to marks his death and is the high point of Elvis Week, a celebration of his life and career.
This year, fans got a surprise welcome from the King's former wife and daughter, Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley.
Fans held up lit candles, illuminating their faces in orange light as they stood in the street outside the gates of Graceland, Elvis' longtime home and his burial place.
"You should see this from our point of view. It's amazing," Priscilla Presley said, standing alongside Lisa Marie. "The candles are lit. It's truly a sight to behold."
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Melanie Headley stands near a giant Elvis painting on the street in front of Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. on Aug. 15.
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A man places a flower at Elvis Presley's grave during a candlelight vigil at Graceland, Presley's Memphis, Tenn. home, on Aug. 15. Fans from around the world are at Graceland to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Presley's death.
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Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis's ex-wife and daughter, speak to fans gathered at a candlelight vigil in Graceland Aug. 15.
On the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, TODAY's Natalie Morales talks to wife Priscilla Presley and daughter Lisa Marie, who say they can still feel the music legend's presence all over Graceland, "where he felt safe."

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SAN ANTONIO — An 11-year-old Hispanic boy whose singing of the national anthem at the NBA Finals set off a barrage of racist tweets earned a roaring ovation in an encore performance Thursday night.
Sebastien De La Cruz, a mariachi singer, was congratulated by San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich and Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra at midcourt afterward.
His second act followed an outpouring of support after disparaging tweets about Latinos during his nationally televised performance before Game 3 this week.
Popovich bemoaned "idiots" who posted bigoted comments. He called De La Cruz "a class act."
Other celebrities and politicians are also rallying behind the boy. They include San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and Texas-born actress Eva Longoria, formerly married to Spurs star Tony Parker.
Castro introduced the boy Thursday night.
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Some HRT tablets 'linked to higher blood clot risk'
Women taking certain types of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) tablets could be more at risk from serious blood clots – although the overall risk is low, BMJ research suggests.
It found tablets containing equine oestrogen were linked with a slightly higher risk than other tablets.
And patches and gels for HRT were the safest but were underused.
GPs' leaders said HRT treatments were tailored to meet the needs of individual patients.
They said women should not panic or stop taking HRT. Instead, they should discuss any concerns at their next routine GP appointment.
HRT is used to relive symptoms of the menopause such as hot flushes and night sweats, by replacing hormones that are at a lower level.
The treatments come in a number of different forms, including tablets, gels, cream and patches.
Most experts agree that HRT is a good and safe treatment – but there are some small potential risks, as NHS UK advice explains.
These include a small increased risk of certain serious health problems, such as blood clots and breast cancer.
Underused treatments
This study, by University of Nottingham researchers, said the increased risk of taking HRT tablets was equivalent to nine extra cases of blood clots per 10,000 women per year.
The study looked at the prescription records of 80,000 women aged 40-79 who had developed blood clots and compared them with records of 390,000 women who had not.
For tablet treatments, the risk was found to differ for two types of oestrogens.
The risk of blood clots was 15% higher for the treatments containing oestrogen manufactured from horse urine than for the synthetic oestradiol, for both single and combined hormone treatments.
But there was no such risk for women using gels, patches or creams for HRT – also called transdermal treatment.
The study said this was the safest type of HRT and yet it appeared to be underused, with just 20% of prescriptions for this type of therapy.
According to the Royal College of GPs, most local NHS groups suggest prescribing tablets as a first-line treatment, unless medical issues suggest otherwise.
'Don't panic'
Dr Yana Vinogradova, from Nottingham's school of medicine, said: "Our study has shown that, for oral treatments, different tablets are associated with different risks of developing blood clots, depending on the active components.
"It has also confirmed that risks of thrombosis for patients using HRT treatments other than tablets [patches or gels] is very low."
She added: "Our findings are particularly important information for women who require HRT treatment and are already at increased risk of developing blood clots."
Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said the observational study was "interesting" but could not prove that cases of blood clots – or deep vein thrombosis – had been caused by the tablets.
"As such, it is essential that more research is conducted in this area and taken into account as new clinical guidelines are updated and developed," she said.
She said current practice was to prescribe the lowest possible dose of HRT for the shortest possible time.
This happened after "a comprehensive discussion between the GP and their patient", she said, when treatments were tailored to meet the best interests of each individual.
"It's important that patients don't panic or stop taking HRT as a result of reading about this study but instead discuss their concerns at their next routine GP appointment or seek advice from a reputable website like NHS Choices," Prof Stokes-Lampard said.


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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg star in this white-knuckle effort to save the planet, in a movie so good it made this franchise relevant again. Read our review and watch the trailer
Michael Fassbender gave one of 2011's best performances in this film about a sex-addicted yuppie whose life goes spiraling out of control when an unannounced visit from his sister, played by Carey Mulligan, upsets his routine. Read our review and watch the trailer
The Divide
Rosanna Arquette, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia and Courtney B. Vance are among the survivors who take shelter in their apartment building's basement after New York City is rocked by nuclear explosions. Watch the trailer
Born to Be Wild
A documentary about two women who run orphanages, one for orangutans, the other for elephants. Watch the trailer
This documentary focuses on small family farms forced out of business by government bureaucracies. Watch the trailer
7 Below
Val Kilmer and Ving Rhames star in this horror film about a couple of travelers forced to spend the night in a haunted house. Watch the trailer
Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates Collector's Series
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello enlist in the army, plunging our armed services into even more chaos. Watch a clip
New on Home Video: "MI: 4" and "Shame" Offer Great Art Both Low and High
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Ellovi Butter Review & Giveaway!
I ♥ ♥ ♥ decadent, rich, creamy, smooth body butters—almost as much as I love cake! ←And TRUST, I don't say that lightly!
My all-time FAVE body butter is *drum roll* Ellovi's BUTTER! Why is it the dopest of the dope, you ask? First off, it's vegan & cruelty-free (hella-hells to the yeah)! It also only has 6 ingredients: macadamia nut oil, coconut oil, marula oil, hemp seed oil, corn starch, and shea butter… no fillers, no junk—just pure, skin-quenching body buttery goodness.
It has a subtle sweet and nutty scent, and it absorbs quickly and effortlessly into the skin. It's versatile, too! You can use it anywhere your skin needs a little TLC – on your face (acts as an awesome anti-aging night treatment), your hands, legs elbows, lips, etc. I also wanna add that the packaging is GORGE! I will most definitely be reusing the jar when it's empty (which makes it eco, too!).
VBR has teamed up with Ellovi to give away a jar of Butter and three $10 Ellovi gift cards. Sa-weet, right? Good luck, errbody! xo
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I bought this because of your site! 🙂 Thank-you! It is really good stuff. The texture is not as creamy as I thought. Creamier than coco oil though. It didn't last me as long as I wanted. I think I will rotate this with my coconut oil.
I would love to try this!
I'm waiting for my Nourish organic body butters in the mail. I don't really like lotioning/body buttering since I don't like to put a lot of stuff on my body, but I'm so super preggers and my tummy needs some lovin'!
Followed you on youtube, pinterest, etc! 🙂
I don't have a vegan body butter but I would love to try one! Thanks for the terrific give-away 🙂
I have not found a vegan butter I enjoy, so I'm excited to try this one!
My current vegan body butter is homemade with raw shea, coconut oil, and vitamin E. I would love to try this one, though. It sounds perfect!
Ellovi is the BEST thing that's ever touched my skin!
Ellovi is THE best thing that has ever touched on my skin!
I haven't found a butter yet. I'm currently using coconut oil.
The body butters at bath and body works
Would love to try this out.:)Body butters are amazing!
I love using Mulondon moisturizer right now. Buddha Butter is good too.
I don't have a vegan body butter, but I'd love to try one!
I've been dying to try this stuff! I've only tried 100% Pure's body butter. My favorite skin cream is Strawberry Hedgehog's Whipped Body Creme (which I found out about here!)
I love body butters and can't wait to try this one out. Thanks for the awesome giveaway. 🙂
I love 100percent pure body lotions. coconut scent is my fave.
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I've never used a body butter before! No seriously! Would love to try the best though!
That looks like some sweet ass body butter! I actually have a hard time finding ones I really like, because I'm so picky about how things absorb. Thanks for hosting another awesome giveaway 🙂
I also follow you on twitter & pinterest & I'm on 'yo mailing list 🙂
I just ordered some Ellovi Butter from Pure Citizen about a week ago. It came on Wednesday, and I'm already in love. It's definitely my new favorite!
Once I read the ingredients, I just knew I had to try it. Thanks for your review and giveaway.
this stuff is my fave! I want more!!
I love 100PercentPure Body Butters.
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A Delaware Valley family went on a bass fishing trip at the Indian Inlet on the Delaware river and captured video of an extremely endangered Right Whale. The video that they posted on YouTube was taken with a BlackBerry Smartphone. According to marine biologists there are only approximately 400 of these whales on the planet.
There wasn't any mention as to what exact device was used.
I never get to see any cool stuff while my phone is handy. It always happens at inopportune times. You never know what you might see when you're out and about. Don't forget to bring your BlackBerry with you on the trip.
Pretty good video from a BlackBerry phone. What are your thoughts on the video?


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I know I can't be the only person obsessed. For how lame the storyline is, it truly makes up for it in gameplay. I could seriously forage for mushrooms forever and be content.
So let's talk! What do you like or dislike?
Got any photos to show off? Proud of your accomplishments?
I will be back eventually with some images. My horses like to get stuck in weird places... notably underneath a bridge. Found a glitched out Lizalfos that I took some selfies with too. xD
Do you have the DLC? I haven't done a whole lot with it yet besides get the ancient horse armor.


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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
NLDS Game 1: Post-Game Thoughts
Halladay is, quite simply, the best pitcher in baseball because he possesses the four skills that make a truly dominant starting pitcher. First, he possesses good command and the corresponding low walk rate. Second, he has the plus pitches to generate a high strikeout rate. Third, he induces groundballs at a high rate. Fourth, he is very efficient with his pitches. There are a select few pitchers who excel in all four areas, but Halladay is the best of them.
Obviously, the headlines tomorrow will read something to the effect of "Doc Halladay Fires Bullets on the Way to History." And, justifiably so. However, if Halladay had not used the Reds like a rented mule on his ride into the sunset and history books, then the focus would justifiably have shifted to different issues.
The Reds made several mistakes, the types of mistakes that you simply cannot make against the defending NL champs. In the second inning, the Reds defense misplayed two chances. They won't show up as errors in the box score, but they were plays that good teams should make.
Edinson got two quick outs before walking Carlos Ruiz. Wilson Valdez then hit a groundball up the middle which was gloved by Orlando Cabrera whose momentum carried him past second base. Cabrera tried a backhanded flip to Brandon Phillips at second, but Ruiz beat the play. Cabrera went to second, but it's hard to see why he didn't try to throw out Valdez at first. His momentum was heading that direction and a quick pivot would have put him in good throwing position. Maybe he thought Ruiz would be the slower runner and easier target, but replays show that he had the better shot at Valdez. If Cabrera makes that play, then the inning ends without any runs scoring. He didn't, so the inning continued.
The next hitter was Roy Halladay who hit a soft liner to leftfield. I don't think there is any question that even a decent defensive outfielder makes the play on that ball. Jonny Gomes did not make the play, which allowed a run to score and opened the door to two more in the inning.
Of course, a top of the rotation starter like Edinson should never allow the opposing pitcher to do damage with the bat, but Edinson only got 2 swings-and-misses in his outing. Allowing Halladay to drive the ball to the outfield to plate a run was a mistake on Edinson's part. So, that's yet another mistake on the ledger.
The final mistake came during the 6th inning when Logan Ondrusek airmailed first base on a routine groundball. In many respects, Ondrusek's error was the most forgivable, as it was merely a physical mistake, which is bound to happen to everyone who plays the game. Cabrera's mistake was the result of a poor decision, the mistake on Gomes was actually the organization relying heavily on him in leftfield, and Edinson's mistake was either the result of poor execution, a poor plan of attack, or both.
Given the sheer dominance of Halladay, these miscues don't really matter, but going forward these types of mistakes will significantly reduce the Reds' chances of success. And, when facing the defending NL champs and arguably the best team in all of baseball, these types of mistakes simply don't cut it. The more I watch and think about the game, the more I have come to think of individual plays or events as fractional wins. Each and every event in a baseball game plays some role in the outcome of the game. The more plays a team successfully completes, the more fractional wins it picks up. The more fractional wins a team compiles, the greater the probability of victory. The Reds simply can't afford to drop fractional wins all over the diamond for the Phillies to simply scoop up at their leisure.
As they showed tonight, the Phillies can be a truly dominant team, so the Reds can't afford to give the Phillies extra outs in Game 2 when, hopefully, the Phillies come back to earth and aren't quite so dominant. It's a short series, so the Reds need to get up off the mat in a hurry, but it won't get any easier with noted Red-Killer Roy Oswalt taking the mound. Hopefully, Bronson Arroyo's high contact approach will somehow, some way translate into success in a bandbox against a lineup heavy with lefthanded hitters.
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i dont think volquez pitched that poorly, bad defense and an ump that clearly favored halladay can do that to you. I honestly don't think i have ever watched a game where it was as obvious that halladay could throw it wherever he wanted and it would be a strike yet volquez couldnt buy a strike unless they swung. it was god awfulReplyDelete
I'm not sure I agree. Volquez only got swings-and-misses on two pitches, which seems an inordinately low total for a guy who throws as hard as he does. He obviously wasn't fooling anyone and his command was poor.
As for the umpire, I actually thought he was really good. I'll make a quick post on it, as there's a good chart out there that addresses the issue.
well i guess it just seemed that way to me. i get a little heated sometimesReplyDelete
Seemed that way to a lot of people, so maybe you're right. I just thought otherwise.
Hopefully the Reds make the umps irrelevant in Game 2.


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João Maciel joined the Lisbon office of The Boston Consulting Group in 2003 and moved to the firm's Dallas office in 2007. He rejoined BCG in the Houston office in 2013 after spending more than two years at Energias de Portugal (EDP).
João is a core member of the firm's Energy practice and specializes in green energy, energy efficiency, and the environment. He has managed strategy, organization, and operational improvement projects, mostly in the energy, financial services, transportation, telecommunications, public, and consumer goods sectors.
João has helped develop a comprehensive business plan for the rooftop solar area of a North American energy company. He has also engaged in an operating model review and an assessment of synergies for a North American energy efficiency company. He has worked on business plans and strategies, and on the vendor due diligence and negotiation strategy for the carbon credit-allocation process of a major Iberian utility.
Between his two tenures at BCG, João was in charge of the energy services unit at EDP. He set up and developed the energy efficiency business and distributed solar-photovoltaic businesses to become market leaders in Portugal and initiate expansion to the Spanish market. Until 2003, João worked for a tech-based company he cofounded in 2001.


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Kinnow, a variety of Mandarin orange, belong to family Rutaceaea, a large family of true citrus fruit. They resemble flattened oranges with loose orange skin and have a fragrant aroma. Their skin can easily be detached from the segments. Their flesh is sweet but it contains a large number of pips. This fruit grows in many countries. In Pakistan kinnow is cultivated extensively in Punjab Province.
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I'm a sucker for those best-of-the-year lists. I can't help it. I have to unveil my Top 12 albums of the year list. This year was one of the most difficult to narrow down, and while I compiled the list, I axed two worthy bands and added a pair of last-minute replacements.
I'm a sucker for those best-of-the-year lists. I can't help it. I have to unveil my Top 12 albums of the year list. This year was one of the most difficult to narrow down, and while I compiled the list, I axed two worthy bands and added a pair of last-minute replacements.1. Vampire Weekend – "Vampire Weekend" (XL Recordings)
One year removed from their day jobs – teaching middle school, music archiving, film scoring, etc. – these four recent Columbia University grads put together the best debut album since Interpol's 2002 gem "Turn on the Bright Lights." Fusing African pop with modern-day rock and a tinge of folk, Vampire Weekend offer radiating tracks such as "Oxford Comma," a number lifted up by the pure essence of keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij, the beats of drummer Chris Tomson, bassist Chris Baio's rhythms, and singer/guitarist Ezra Koenig's chiming solo turns this into an instant classic.2. Ra Ra Riot – "The Rhumb Line" (Barsuk Records)
Slightly outdone by their New York college grad counterparts Vampire Weekend, former Syracuse University students Ra Ra Riot have persevered through some tough times. Its drummer/singer John Pike died unexpectedly in 2007 shortly after this band's self-released EP came to light. This five-piece band continued on, carrying out a dream they knew Pike wanted them to chase. "The Rhumb Line's" perfectly crafted backdrop allows singer Wesley Miles to paint pictures with words. The delicate bristles of Miles' voice brilliantly splash this album with a melancholic melody few singers could turn into something so positively effective. Baroque rock, chamber pop: call it what you want, as long as you say it's one of the best records of the decade.3. Fleet Foxes – "Fleet Foxes" (Sub Pop)
Packing a strong Pacific Northwest/campfire-feel, Fleet Foxes' debut is filled with harmonies, well-crafted instrumentation of acoustic guitars, mandolins, and tom drums. They're all engulfed in a folksy psychedelic atmosphere. Beginning with the deep-rooted tones and the acoustic subtlety of "Sun It Rises," followed by the gospel-choir sounds of "White Winter Hymnal," this album sounds like a timeless record from the strong '60s folk movement collaborative.4. MGMT – "Oracular Spectacular" (Sony)
Although digitally released in late 2007, this album didn't hit shelves until early 2008. Given the massive awesomeness of this Brooklyn duo's space age, synth-driven, electro psychedelic pop, the name of the album says it all. The Bowie-esque "Pieces of What," the shimmying and harmonic "Electric Feel," and the sheer fun on "Kids" will keep you dancing 'til you're an aging hipster.5. Portishead – "Third" (Island Records)
No other band could take a decade off, return, remain relevant, and create an album that's an instant gem. "Plastic" is classic Portishead with the echoing vocals, dizzying samples, thunderous blasts, and simple cymbal-snare drum dashes. The trio dabbles into new realms on "Nylon Smile," adding an almost afro-beat percussion run, and on the semi-psychedelic "Magic Doors." Still fresh even after all these years.6. Little Joy – "Little Joy" (Rough Trade Records)
The first time around, I wasn't feeling it. The second spin of Strokes' drummer Fabrizio Moretti's side project, a Brazilian/American rock trio, also featuring Los Hermanos singer and guitarist Rodrigo Amarante and Binki Shapiro, really got me. The two vocalists have completely different styles. Amarante echoes a José González meets Julian Casablancas vibe, while the sultry sounding Shapiro has this Billie Holiday feel with a touch of Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino. Then there's Moretti, who could drum for public transportation panhandlers and make them sound like superstars.7. Los Campesinos! – "Hold On Now, Youngster" (Wichita/Arts and Crafts)
Hey! The seven-member band from Cardiff, England, jump up and down all over this record! There's so much addictive and fun energy on "Hold On Now" (re: "Death to Los Campesinos!") that it makes you want to run around the neighborhood with old friends, merrily skipping down the street while playing guitars, handing out hi-fives like candy at a parade, and having your girlfriends twirl glockenspiel mallets and sing joyous harmonies all in one.8. Bon Iver -– "For Emma, Forever Ago" (Jagjaguwar/4AD)
How many 27-year-olds who go through some tough times only to battle back, hunker down in a cabin in the deep woods of the upper Midwest, and pen a debut album that stops you dead in your tracks? Justin Vernon did it. Known as Bon Iver, Vernon self-released this album last year, but it earned a proper release in early 2008. Driven by Vernon's haunting falsetto and gripping acoustic guitar play, "For Emma" is one of the most remarkable singer-songwriter albums in quite some time.9. Black Kids – "Partie Traumatic" (Almost Gold/Columbia)
This Jacksonville, Fla., fivesome sounds like an updated version of one of the most influential and phenomenal British new wave bands of all time – The Cure. You quite simply cannot top that. Singer Reggie Youngblood's voice is so 1980s, it emits neon colors and new romanticism. Start with the album-opener "Hit the Heartbrakes" and you're hooked.10. Lykke Li – "Youth Novels" (LL Recordings)
Twenty-two-year-old Swedish female pop vocalist Lykke Li mixes an array of tasty tracks together on her debut record. A delicate voice, dance pop melodies, and sprinkles of electronic new wave shine throughout. Top tracks "I'm Good, I'm Gone" and "Little Bit" highlight Lykke Li's exuberance.11. Monkey: "Journey to the West" (XL Recordings)
It's no secret I worship Damon Albarn. Everything he touches turns to gold. The Blur front man teams up with Gorillaz mate Jamie Hewlett and Chinese opera director Chen Shi-Zheng to adapt the Chinese folk tale "Monkey" into musical form. The 22-track blending of Albarn's intricate production and nuances of Gorillaz, combined with Mandarin Chinese vocals and orchestral string arrangements are finely displayed on "The Living Sea," "Monkey Bee," and "Heavenly Peach Banquet."12. Sigur Rós – "Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust" (EMI/XL Recordings)
Iceland's greatest musical export since Bjork and the Sugarcubes, Sigur Rós return with yet another gem. Tracks like "Vid Spilum Endalaust," take singer Jónsi on a vocal rollercoaster, testing his range. He works the track so well and takes this post-rock foursome back to its Icelandic roots. As they say in Icelandic, ljómandi. Translation: brilliant.EP of the year: Bell – "EP" (self-released)
This Russian-born, Brooklyn via Alaska via Boston singer is quite simply phenomenal. She is a pure vocalist in every sense of the word. She's has created her own identity as a singer, but you can hear sprinkles of Bjork, Annie Clark (St. Vincent), and Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) here and there. The base of Bell's disc is built of a passion-fueled arrangement of flickering samples, handclaps, and her most expressive vocalization on "Echinacea."Ryan Wood is a freelance writer who has contributed to the Community Newspaper Company, Noize Makes Enemies, and The Weekly Dig. Send him an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog, Take Me to Your Music, at http://blogs.townonline.com/planetmusic, for more Best of 2008 winners.


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This third and final excerpt from [Callenbach, Ernest. Living Cheaply With Style. Ronin Publishing, 1993.], as the first two excerpts, resonates with my own attempts at expressing who I am. One of my favorite words has become enough: "sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate." Callenbach is definitely writing from within a specific political "box" (which is more than evident in later passages, as well as a portion of this third excerpt), and I like to keep as far away as possible from partisanship, but much of his voice rings true for me. –SB
The Green Triangle.
Living an ecologically responsible life doesn't mean self-sacrifice and austerity; on the contrary, it should bring you a richer, more interesting, fuller, longer, and healthier life. But so far nobody has been able to dramatize this on a national level in the folksy, convincing way in which Ronald Reagan and Ivan Boesky made greed respectable.
Does ecological living make attractive sense for Americans? It had better, or we can start preparing a suitable tombstone for our nation—and the rest of the globe, which follows our cultural lead. Helpful as they may be, we need more than a cafeteria menu of 50 or 750 ecological good practices to choose among.
Luckily, on the whole it works to assume that the universe displays reassuring regularities that we can rely on. This goes for science almost without saying, since without prediction of regularities it's impossible to devise experiments. But it is also reassuringly true of our daily lives. However chaotic they sometimes seem, they have patterns; we can actually make sense of the ways things work, and react accordingly.
One way we can understand some critical everyday regularities is by considering what I call the Green Triangle. It's a handy means of generating for ourselves ideas for personal and community and national change. (Ecological matters are also inevitably social; we can't do it all individually.)
The three points of the triangle are environment, health, and money. The principle that relates these three points is: Anytime you do something beneficial for one of them, you will almost inevitable also do something beneficial for the other two—whether you're aiming to or not.
For example, let's suppose you decide to take action to improve your health, by eating less fat-filled meat and dairy products. This will, of course, decrease your chance of circulatory disease and probably prolong your life; it may even make you stronger and give you greater endurance. But since meat and dairy products are relatively expensive, you will also save quite a bit of money; moreover, you will also help the environment—since meat production is a very land-intensive and resource-consuming use of our farm productive capacities.
But you can start at any point of the Green Triangle. Let's assume you do something beneficial for the environment, like walking or bicycling instead of driving your car. You cut down pollution emissions, you reduce smog and lung damage, you decrease acid rain, and you may help postpone the greenhouse effect. But you'll also help your health, because you get more regular exercise, and you'll save money on gas, oil, and car depreciation.
The third point of the Green Triangle is actually just as potent. Anytime you do something beneficial for your pocketbook, like not buying an expensive gizmo whose manufacturing expends a lot of energy and uses a lot of raw materials, or not taking an expensive trip that turns a lot of petroleum into atmospheric pollution and noise, you're also helping the Earth. But you're probably also doing your health a favor, since you're less stressed out to earn the money to pay off the gizmo or trip; and not pouring a lot of emotional energy into interacting with the gizmo leaves time and attention for other human beings and the kind of spontaneous improvisation and fooling around that our species evolved to be good at. (And don't keep this good news to yourself, or show reinforcing enthusiasm—or envy—toward friends boasting of the latest acquisition. The best way to get somebody to stop doing something is to ignore it, and praise other behaviors.)
If you apply the Green Triangle to your everyday life, examples of delightful synergistic effects can be found everywhere; you come out with many useful new perceptions. Some cases: Low- or no-cost fun with other people is almost always more ecologically and financially desirable than hard work and heavy consumption; evidently evolution did not commit an ecological error in making us playful. Exchanges outside the cash economy—trading massages, for instance, or passing on extra vegetables, knowing your neighbor will probably someday help you with a carpentry problem—don't have monetary ramifications you have to worry about, whereas if you pay for a massage, the money may go into a bank, and you know what they do with it. Growing or making your own is usually cheaper and healthier, as well as more ecologically benign. Fun, isn't it? So go triangulate!
One last word: even using the Green Triangle, we must still remember that there is no such thing as innocent purchasing, even in countries with eco-labeling programs that guide consumers to "less-damaging" products. Of course, it's good to buy things that do less damage, and we have budding labeling programs in this country, such as the Green Cross and the Green Seal. To keep a sense of proportion, however, the really ecologically damaging things we do are to use cares, eat meat, have more than one child per parent, and live in dispersed single-family dwellings (apartment living is something like five times more energy- and materials-efficient). Even the most devoted recycling and conserving will not outweigh the enormous effects of these basic factors. You may not be able to consider change in all of them at once, but how about trying just one?
The other difficult-to-accept green principle is this: Buy less in general. There are a few things that we, the rich peoples of the Northern, industrialized countries, can buy that really do positive good for the Earth: photovoltaic cells and solar hot-water heaters, for instance, which move us toward a solar economy. But learning to live more contentedly with less income and less consumption of goods vastly outranks all other things we might choose to do to lessen our ecological impacts. Odd as it may seem, the simple act of consuming less is probably the most radical step you can personally take to save the Earth.


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Kordels Calcium Plus is a comprehensive bone formula containing calcium, magnesium and other co-nutrients to help improve the absorption and utilisation of calcium for healthy bones.
Adults and children aged 12 and above: Take 1 to 3 tablets a day, after a meal.
Calcium (from oyster shell), magnesium, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, silica, vitamin D, apple cider vinegar
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J&J income drops 7 percent
NEW YORK Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) third-quarter profit fell 7 percent as increased research and production costs offset higher sales for its medicines and medical devices and new revenue from its biggest acquisition ever.
The maker of Tylenol, baby shampoo and prescription drugs said Tuesday that its net income was $2.97 billion, or $1.05 per share. That's down from $3.2 billion, of $1.15 per share, in 2011's third quarter.
Excluding one-time charges for research, the acquisition and litigation, earnings were $3.5 billion, or $1.25 per share.
Revenue rose 6.5 percent to $17.05 billion, boosted nearly 6 percent by sales from Synthes, a maker of surgical trauma equipment and orthopedic implants that J&J bought for $19.7 billion in June.
The results beat Wall Street expectations for earnings of $1.21 per share on revenue of $17.01 billion.
J&J, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, raised its full-year profit forecast and now expects earnings per share of $5.05 to $5.10, excluding one-time items. That's up from its July forecast of $5 to $5.07.
J&J's stock rose 83 cents to $69.43 in midday trading.
"Our third-quarter results reflected continued sales momentum driven by strong growth of key products, successful new product launches, and the addition of Synthes to our family of companies. We advanced our pipelines with regulatory approvals for a number of new products, the submission of several new drug applications and the completion of several strategic collaborations," CEO Alex Gorsky said in a statement.
Sales of medical devices and diagnostic equipment, which is J&J's biggest division and now includes the Synthes business, jumped 12.5 percent to $7.07 billion.
Prescription drug sales climbed 7 percent to $6.4 billion.
But sales of consumer health products fell 4.3 percent, to $3.58 billion. They continue to be weighed down by about 30 product recalls since September 2009. That's kept many of its nonprescription medicines off store shelves as J&J rebuilds one factory from the ground up and upgrades another under heavy scrutiny from the Food and Drug Administration.
J&J's U.S. sales rose 13 percent to $7.79 billion, while sales in other countries inched up 1.4 percent to $9.26 billion. The company noted that unfavorable currency exchange results reduced total revenue by 4.3 percent.


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Artist: Utada Hikaru
Product code: UICL-1088
Release date: 2009.03.14 (JP), 2009.05.30 (US)
Highest Ranking: #3 Oricon, #69 Billboard 200
Label: Island Records
US Version: 3 Bonus Tracks
With the Japanese market completely wrapped around her finger, J-pop sensation, Utada Hikaru, has been seen to frequently flaunt her creative flair in her music. Having dominated the Oricon charts with virtually every venture during her initial five year tenure, Utada finally decided to break into the American music scene with her first English album, Exodus. Her uninhibited, audacious approach to its production led to an album which despite being fresh, was rather difficult for American audiences to accept and ultimately led to its downfall. Undeterred, five years later, Utada returned for another foray in the American market with her now mainstream-focused, aptly titled, This Is The One.


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As a Physical Therapist at HCR ManorCare, we'll look to you to provide care to patients recuperating from injuries, illnesses, or surgery—giving them hope and helping them reclaim normalcy and contentment in their everyday lives. With your work ethic, your compassion and your ability to communicate to patients and colleagues, you can deliver the kind of personalized and comprehensive treatment plans that will relieve pain and regain function. In return for bringing your expertise to HCR ManorCare, you'll enjoy excellent training, industry-leading benefits, and unlimited opportunities to learn and grow.
If you're ready to have a health care career in which you can build long-lasting relationships and find professional and intellectual fulfillment, then we're excited to work with you.
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Our Physical Therapists are the cornerstone to HCR ManorCare's commitment to caring. Working in the health care environment can be very demanding, and it is our goal to provide the tools to help our Physical Therapists understand and commit to the philosophy that defines our culture. Our strength is not just quality of care, but also our quality of caring. We are interested in employing Physical Therapists who are as passionate as we are about ensuring that our patients and residents receive the care and support services they need and deserve.
As a team member at HCR ManorCare your duties may include, but will not be limited to:
- Plan and administer prescribed physical therapy treatment program for patients to restore function, relieve pain, and prevent disability following illness, disease, or injury.
- Take patients medical history.
- Conduct tests and measure to identify potential and/or existing problems the patient is facing.
- Required to conduct re-examinations as needed.
- Develop discharge plans for the patient.
Prior experience in Physical Therapy preferred, but not necessary.
Credentialed Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy program, obtained a passing score on the National Physical Therapy Examination and currently licensed in applicable state where working.
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Recent Stories
Beginning May 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court Building's West Front Façade began a complete restoration to address deterioration due to age, weather and nature. Take a close-up look at the work underway.
Scaffolding was installed during the summer of 2012 across the entire west elevation of the Supreme Court.
Workers repair the mortar joints between the marble on the façade.
Workers prepare the buildng's marble for laser cleaning; removing heavy deposits of surface soil and adhesives.
Laser cleaning of the marble – a technology similar to that used cosmetically for skin – removes soiling without touching the fagile stone.


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Yu-Ngok Lo's Cheung's Residence Residence
Yu-Ngok Lo Presents The Cheung's Residence Residence
Yu-Ngok Lo, the author of the displayed design Award Winning Cheung's Residence Residence says, The residence is designed with simplicity, openness and natural light in mind. The footprint of the building shall reflect the constraint of the existing site and the formal expression shall be clean and simple. An atrium and balcony are located on the north side of the building illuminating the entrance and the dining area. Sliding windows are provided at the south end of the building where the living room and kitchen are to maximize natural lights and provide spatial flexibility. Skylights are proposed throughout the building to further reinforce the design ideas..
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If the guys at Marvel are to be believed, Scarlett Johansson may soon have her very own super-hero franchise.
"We've already started discussions with Scarlett about the idea of a solo movie and have begun putting together concepts, but 'The Avengers' comes first," Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, said yesterday during a press conference hailing the pending arrival of "Iron Man 2" on home video.
There was speculation earlier this week over at The Wrap about who writer-director Joss Whedon would kill off in "The Avengers," and now it appears we can cross Black Widow's name of the deathwatch list. Or could it be that this is all part of some elaborate smokescreen?
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We're pretty ambivalent about both Johansson, she's a knockout to be sure, and a pretty good actress, but she's never really carried a movie or enjoyed big box-office success.
That said, there s no shortage of men -- or women, for that matter -- who would happily line watch her gallivant around in a tight black leather blodysuit for 100 minutes.


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Gray Cards
KODAK Gray Card Plus
KODAK and The Munsell Color Services Lab of X-Rite, Inc. have partnered to create an additional workflow calibration target for your arsenal of color management tools - the enhanced KODAK Gray Card Plus. The high quality, precision manufactured target has all the benefits of the original *KODAK Gray Card Plus and incorporates a new design that makes it easier for colorists to see the black and white level settings on a telecine waveform monitor. Additionally, the new Gray Card will improve the edge-to-edge uniformity of the gray patch when exposing film with "off angle" lighting.
The new target incorporates the world renowned Munsell primary (R,G,B) and complementary (C,M,Y) color patches, as well as a light and dark skin tone. All of these colors are taken from the ColorChecker target which has been used for over 30 years to verify image quality. The digital code values (sRGB) for each patch will be located on the backside of the target, making it easy for digital manipulation, either on a telecine, or using a color management application, such as Adobe Photoshop.
The introduction of this new color management target is aimed at various markets including; but, not limited to, cinematographers, professional and advanced amateur still photographers.
*. Munsell 18% Reflectance (Gray) Neutral Patch, Munsell 3.1% Reflectance (Black) Neutral Patch, Munsell 90% Reflectance (White) Neutral Patch
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KODAK and the MunSell™ Color Services Lab of X-Rite®, Incorporated, have partnered to create an improved calibration target for your photographic requirements. The new KODAK Gray Card / R-27 incorporates the worldrenowned MunSell 18% Reflectance (Gray) Neutral Patch. The catalog number and list price remain the same as the current KODAK Gray Card / R-27; however, the component packaging was reduced to ensure KODAK could provide a higher quality target and maintain the same list price. The new KODAK Gray Card / R-27 incorporates One 4 x 5 in. (10 x 13 cm) Gray Card, One 8 x 10 in. (20 x 25 cm) Gray Card, as well as Instructions for Use.
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"Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things
which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too
hesitant to attempt.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy.
But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."
—Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)
"The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change;
they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them.
Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity.
If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them.
People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it.
You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack."
― C.Joybell C.
Here's to my new beginning.
New Beginning
Sunday, May 6, 2012
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Dunbarton is a town in Merrimack county, New Hampshire. It was formed in 1735 and has gone by the following other name/s: Gorhamstown/Starkstown. Its parent county/ies is/are Hillsborough. For more information, contact the county at 1011 School St., Dunbarton 03301. On the attached map, Dunbarton is shown as 20 in Merrimack.
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Blank Media: How to Choose
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Listening to your favorite custom song mix, capturing baby's first steps, sharing your digital pics of the blue Caribbean — every kind of audio, video, or digital image recording must be captured and stored on some type of media. And while online solutions such as cloud storage are becoming more popular, there's still a need for saving — or backing up — files to some form of hard copy. Blank media comes in many different shapes and sizes, for a wide variety of applications.
High capacity memory cards are often used in DSLR cameras.
Blank discs include recordable and rewritable CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. Blank tapes include VHS, S-VHS, Mini DV, and audio cassettes. Digital cameras and portable music players generally use some form of removable flash memory to store pictures or audio files; common types of blank memory cards include CompactFlash® cards, Secure Digital® (SD) cards, Memory Sticks®, and more.
For more information about individual types of media, see our Blank Media Glossary.
Which format is right for you?
One of the most important things to think about when shopping for audio/video gear is what kind of media it uses. Because blank media formats vary enormously, consider the following factors when evaluating your entertainment options:
- Price — Blank media ranges from very inexpensive to considerably higher in cost; keep your budget in mind, yet be aware that you may be giving up durability and portability perks for a lower price.
- Capacity — The amount of storage you need can partially determine your choice of media (subject to compatibility with your gear). Memory cards, for example, come in a variety of sizes, but high-def cards with a 16-gigabyte or greater storage only work with certain kinds of cameras. And the same can be true of disc players. CD-Rs and DVD-Rs (which have ten times the storage capacity of CD-Rs) can be read by most DVD players and PCs with DVD drives. High-capacity format recordable Blu-ray discs can store three times or greater the amount a DVD-R can hold, but require a compatible player in order to use them.
- Availability — If you travel a lot, make sure you carry enough extra blank memory cards or discs to capture all the photos or video you want. It's true that you might be able to find some extra memory while you're traveling, but depending on where you go, there may be a more limited selection or higher prices than you'd find at home. And while you might have online storage, if you don't have access to the Internet (if you were vacationing in a remote location, for example), that extra memory you bring might mean the difference between saving all your shots or having to constantly delete some to make room
- Ease of use — Depending on your needs, one type of media may be preferable to another. If you want fast access to video you just shot with your camcorder, for example, then you'll probably want to save your footage to DVD. If you want a media that will more readily lend itself to editing, then you'll probably want to use a tape format.
- Durability — Some types of media are virtually indestructible, like flash memory cards and drives; some require careful handling, like DVDs and CDs; some simply don't have a long lifetime, like audio cassettes. If the longevity of your recordings is important to you, then you'll want to chose gear that stores content to more durable media.
- Rewritable media — Many types of media, like CD-RW, DVD-RW, and flash memory cards can erase existing data and store new information in its place. Other media, like CD-R, offers one-time storage, often at a lower price.
Digital media and PC connectivity
The use of blank media usually involves a computer somewhere in the process. Music libraries for portable music players are normally created and maintained on computers, and then transferred to the players. Videos from camcorders usually get moved to computers for sharing, editing, and storage.
To transfer music, video, or digital pics to and from your computer, you first need to make a connection. There are lots of possibilities. For one thing, many digital cameras, digital camcorders, and portable digital music players can connect directly to your PC, usually via a USB port..
If you're using some kind of memory card, however, a memory card reader you'll need an adapter of some kind to connect it to your computer. That's where card readers come in. These readers can accept a wide variety of memory cards, and connect to your PC via a USB port or other terminal common to computers. Before you buy, think about how you're going to connect your new digital A/V gear to your PC. Making sure you've got everything to make the connection now makes for easy operation later.
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When's the last time you visited our website and signed in and viewed the "your account" page? You might remember it looking something like this…
Well prepare yourself! You are in for some excitement and some serious fun next time you visit our website and login to the new and improved "Your Account" page. All you need to do to check out our newly redesigned account page is to click on the "Your Account" link at the top right corner at SmartPak.com.
Over the last four months, I have been a member of the eight-person team that worked on the project we dubbed "Horse+Profile." The Horse+Profile team and I worked hard to revamp and completely redesign the "Your Account" page. You might be wondering where we came up with such a crazy name! Well in addition to redesigning the account page we introduced a lot of new and exciting features that we have a feeling you will love as much as we do!
As a QA Engineer on the project team, I have been busy testing and playing around with all of the new features and functionality. The new feature that I'm the most excited about is that you can now personalize your account page with photos of yourself, your horse and even your dogs, making it unique to you! I love seeing my horses and dogs every time I visit www.SmartPakequine.com to track an order, view my SmartPaks or update my information!
Another thing that I've found really useful and fun is that you can now click on your horse's or dog's name and answer four quick questions about them. It is a great place to record your horse's birthdate so you won't forget to plan his next party!
We even reward you with a blue ribbon after you finish answering the quick questions about your horse or dog!
The new account page isn't just the place to go to upload pictures of your animals, or to answer fun questions. I also find myself visiting my account page to view my SmartPaks and Portion Paks, and to track my orders. That's right! You can now track your orders directly from your account!
For those of you who spend hours in the barn or on the road at shows, you don't have to worry. You can access your new and improved account page directly from your smartphone, as we made it mobile-friendly! You can even take a picture with your smartphone and upload it directly into your account!
Just in case you I haven't done enough to get you excited about visiting your new account page, I asked a couple of my project team members to share their favorite part of the project (trust me they are just as excited about it as I am!):
SmartPak has always been known for legendary customer service and that's something that I take a lot of pride in, being a former member of the Customer Care team myself ☺ It's always been a little sad to me that the riders who only connect with our website, and never email or call in, don't get to experience just how awesome we SmartPakers are. However, through our work on the Horse+Profile project, I feel we've taken the first key steps in allowing riders to connect and engage with our site and our brand in a deeper way. I really hope that riders enjoy making the site feel a little more personal and unique to them! – Sarah P., Brand Manager
I enjoyed working out the technical issues involved in preparing for what we hope will be an influx of lots and lots of customer images to the site. In addition, it was fun trading test images with team members. -Rick P., IT Developer
I believe that customers will LOVE that they can personalize it with pictures of each horse they own. It's a great single spot to check out what's in each of their horse's SmartPaks, and even has a section for dogs they own. -Jessica R., QA Manager
So quickly head over to your personal account to share in the fun. We can't wait to hear what you think!


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I'm not the type that needs everything in my pantry to be homemade. One thing I really like to have around, though, is homemade bread crumbs made from a stale loaf of French or Italian bread. They're exceedingly easy to make, require no food processor and stay fresh for months in the cabinet or freezer, which is more than enough time for me to use 'em up.
Now, here's what you need…
- loaf of stale crusty bread (such as French or Italian)
- cutting board
- sharp bread knife
- large or small baking sheet (depending on the quantity of breadcrumbs you plan to make)
- resealable plastic bag
- rolling pin
- tupperware
- a few of your favorite spices, such as garlic powder, onion powder, dried parsley, lemon zest, chili powder, crushed red pepper flakes, dried oregano, dried rosemary, etc. (get creative!)
The pictures may be pretty self-explanatory but there are a few things that aren't so obvious, so have a little read:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees, and grab a stale loaf of crusty bread.
2. Slice the loaf into thick strips.
3. Gather the strips together and cut into small cubes.
4. Place the cubes on a baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes.
5. Once baked, the cubes should be crunchy and golden brown in color.
6. Place into a resealable plastic bag.
7. Add seasonings of your choice (see above for ideas; I used a little salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and dried parsley)
8. Roll over the plastic bag with a rolling pin until you have the desired fine texture. Store in an airtight container for up to one month, or in the freezer for up to three months.
And that's all there is to it!
You'll love using these homemade bread crumbs to coat chicken and turkey breasts, or as a crispy topping for macaroni and cheese, casseroles and vegetable gratin. Bread crumbs also make excellent filler in dishes like quiches, frittatas, and puddings, so decide how you'd like to use them before adding your seasonings.
I hope this was a useful guideline for you and that you'll enjoy making your own breadcrumbs next time you, too, have a stale loaf lying around!


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Here are the Videos/DVDs being released this/next week, and those that were released in the past month. Videos/DVDs are released each Tuesday at your local video store or online Video-on-Demand source.
June 26, 2018
A faithful wife (Taraji P. Henson) tired of standing by her devious husband (Lyriq Bent) is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. (Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Nicolet, Ajiona Alexus, Jazmyn Simon)
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Beauty and the Dogs
During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves with him, only to be terribly tormented.
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A heinous crime tests the relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the mystery unravels, she must confront friendship, truth, and celebrity. (Lola Kirke, Zo� Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Le)
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Spinning Man
A happily married professor (Pierce Brosnan) , known for having many affairs with students, becomes the prime suspect when a young woman has gone missing (also: Odeya Rush, Alexandra Shipp, Guy Pearce).
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In Darkness
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. (Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno F�rmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup)
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Terminal Movie Classic
Ground Zero Movie Classic
The Last Post: Season 1 TV Series
The Heart Guy: Series 2 TV Series
Girlfriends: Series 1 TV Series
Black Lightning: Season 1 TV Series
Peyton Place: Part Four TV Series
Detective Montalbano: Episodes 31 & 32 TV Series
June 19, 2018
Class Rank
Two high school outsiders (Skyler Gisondo, Olivia Holt) join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love (also:Kristin Chenoweth, Bruce Dern ).
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Double Lover
Chlo�, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity. (Marine Vacth, J�r�mie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer)
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A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother (Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott, Dylan Gelula).
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Midnight Sun
A 17-year-old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare sunlight sensitity meets Charlie and embarks on a summer romance. (Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shephard)
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Pacific Rim Uprising
Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
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Paul, Apostle of Christ
The story covers Paul (James Faulkner) going from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle (also:Jim Caviezel, Joanne Whalley, John Lynch).
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The Death of Stalin
Follows the Soviet dictator's last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death (Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor)
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A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear--but is it real or a product of her delusion? (Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple)
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I, Jane Doe Movie Classic
Furious Movie Classic
Sylvia Movie Classic
Dark Matter: Season Three TV Series
June 12, 2018
I Can Only Imagine
The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's (J. Michael Finley, Brody Rose, Dennis Quaid, Madeline Carrol) beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.
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Love, Simon
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for Simon (Nick Robinson) it's complicated: no-one knows he's gay and he doesn't know who the anonymous classmate is that he's fallen for online. (also: Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner, Katherine Langford)
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Sherlock Gnomes
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments. (voices: mily Blunt, Johnny Depp, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith)
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The Strangers: Prey at Night
A family staying in a secluded mobile home park for the night are visited by three masked psychopaths, to test their every limit. (Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson, Emma Bellomy)
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Tomb Raider
Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander), the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. (and Hannah John-Kamen, Walton Goggins, Kristin Scott Thomas)
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Don't Get Caught Movie Classic
Sea Change Movie Classic
Bullets on the Border Movie Classic
Avenues of Escape Movie Classic
Hamlet Movie Classic
Suits: Season Seven TV Series
One Day at a Time: The Complete Third Season TV Series
Orange Is the New Black: Season Five TV Series
Power: The Complete Fourth Season TV Series
Channel Zero: Butcher's Block - Season Three TV Series
Columbo: Seasons 1-4 TV Series
Columbo: Seasons 5-7 TV Series
The Office: Seasons 6-9 TV Series
Will & Grace (The Revival): Season One TV Series
Voltron: Legendary Defender Seasons 1 & 2 TV Series
D.Gray-Man: Season 4, Part 2 TV Series
Portlandia: Season Eight TV Series
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz: Emerald City Season 1, Volume 2 TV Series
First Civilizations TV Series
June 5, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Pe�a).
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Death Wish
A family man (Bruce Willis) becomes a vigilante killing machine when his family is violently attacked by robbers. (also: Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone)
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A man recently released from a mental institute inherits a mansion after his parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe it is haunted. (Genesis Rodriguez, Topher Grace, Callan Mulvey, Patricia Clarkson)
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Every Day
A shy teenager falls for someone who transforms into another person every day. (Angourie Rice, Justice Smith, Debby Ryan)
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A dark comedy about the battle of survival for businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) when he finds himself crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal. 9also: Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Thandie Newton)
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Oh Lucy!
A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class where she discovers her alter ego, Lucy.(Shinobu Terajima, Josh Hartnett, Kaho Minami, K�ji Yakusho)
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The Hurricane Heist
Thieves (Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, Ryan Kwanten, Ralph Ineson) attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.
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Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost (Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks).
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Astro Movie Classic
Eat Me Movie Classic
The Midnight Man Movie Classic
Wedding Bells Movie Classic
Asteroid: Final Impact Movie Classic
Hooked Movie Classic
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air: Complete Seasons 4-6 TV Series
Family Matters: Seasons 1-4 TV Series
The Dukes of Hazzard: Seasons 4-7 TV Series
CHiPS: Seasons 1-3 TV Series
The Invaders: The Complete Series TV Series
South Park: The Complete Twenty-first Season TV Series
Mobile Suit Gundam Age TV Series Collection 2 TV Series
The Waltons: Complete Seasons 5-8 TV Series
Supergirl: Complete 1st & 2nd Seasons TV Series
Gotham: Complete Seasons 1-3 TV Series
The Flash: Complete Seasons 1-3 TV Series
The Last Ship: The Complete Fourth Season TV Series
ABC Monsters: The Complete Season TV Series
Spirit: Riding Free Seasons 1-4 TV Series
The Awesomes: The Complete Series TV Series
Anime 3-Series Collection TV Series
May 29, 2018
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don't apply. (Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh)
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What We Started
The narrative leads with the legacy of and Carl Cox and following with newcomer, Martin Garrix, and the evolution of dance music and Garrix's formation of mainstream genres and global fame.
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Mermaids: Best of Sea Fever Children's
Mermaids: Tropical Storm Children's
Paws P.I. Children's
WWE: Randy Savage Unreleased Unseen Matches of the Macho Man Sports
Animal Kingdom: Seasons 1-2 TV Series
Diff'rent Strokes: The Complete Final Season TV Series
East West 101: Series 2 TV Series
Frontline: Weinstein TV Series
I'm Dying Up Here: Season 1 TV Series
The Detectorists: Series 3 TV Series
The West Wing: Complete Seasons 4-7 TV Series
May 22, 2018
Beyond the Hills
The friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany. (Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, Dana Tapalaga)
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Early Man
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home (voices: Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Miriam Margolyes).
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Game Night
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. (Rachel McAdams, Jesse Plemons, Jason Bateman, Kyle Chandler)
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A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role. (Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Lia Bugnar)
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I Kill Giants
Barbara Thorson *Madison Wolfe) struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters (also: Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Ehle).
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Red Sparrow
Ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is recruited to 'Sparrow School' a Russian intelligence service trained to use her body as a weapon, but her first mission, targeting a CIA agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
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The 15:17 to Paris
American soldiers (Jenna Fischer, Judy Greer, Lillian Solange Beaudoin, Bryce Gheisar) discover a terrorist plot on a Paris-bound train. Director: Clint Eastwood
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The Party
Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive it becomes clear that not everything is going to go down as smoothly as the red wine. (Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz)
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The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection. (Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Millicent Simmonds)
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Call the Midwife: Season Seven TV Series
Gunsmoke: The Thirteenth Season, Volume 1 TV Series
Gunsmoke: The Thirteenth Season, Volume 2 TV Series
Justice League Action: Battles From Beyond Season 1, Part 2 TV Series
Loud House: It Gets Louder Season 1, Volume 2 TV Series
May 15, 2018
Black Panther
T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king. (also: Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira)
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After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength (Taylor James) defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God. (Jackson Rathbone, Billy Zane, Rutger Hauer)
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WWE: Wrestlemania 34 Sports
Bold Type: Season One TV Series
Cold Feet: The New Years Season One TV Series
Masterpiece Mystery: Unforgotten Season 2 TV Series
Mum: Season 1 TV Series
Nova: Prediction by the Numbers TV Series
One Piece: Season 9, Voyage Five TV Series
Rick and Morty: Season 3 TV Series
Silent Witness: Season Five TV Series
The Shannara Chronicles: Season Two TV Series
John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken Music
May 8, 2018
Fifty Shades Freed
The third installment of the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trilogy (Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan).
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My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Applejack Children's
Seven Movie Classic
The Pass Movie Classic
Ackley Bridge: Series 1 TV Series
Bunnicula: Season 1, Part 2 TV Series
Dear White People: Season One TV Series
Frontline: Bitter Rivals Iran & Saudi Arabia TV Series
Frontline: Gang Crackdown TV Series
Nova: Great Escape at Dunkirk TV Series
Police Woman: The Complete Final Season TV Series
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In: The Complete Fourth Season TV Series
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Season 2 TV Series
May 1, 2018
12 Strong
The story of the first Special Forces team (Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, William Fichtner, Elsa Pataky) deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
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Before We Vanish
Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies (Masami Nagasawa, Ry�hei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Mahiro Takasugi).
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In the Fade
Katja's life (Diane Kruger) collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge (Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar)
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Hank, a solitary man (Dylan McDermot) living a dull existence in the sleepy, Southern town raises eyebrows when he develops a questionable relationship with Josie (Sophie Turner), a recently transplanted high school student.
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Peter Rabbit
Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden (voices: Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki, Domhnall Gleeson).
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Paw Patrol: Summer Rescues Children's
The Ballerina Children's
The Best of Gumby Children's
Caught Movie Classic
Mary and the Witch's Flower Movie Classic
WW2 Through the Battles Sports
WWE: Twist of Fate, The Best of Hardy Boyz Sports
Ayakashi: The Complete Series TV Series
Broken: Season One TV Series
Capitalism: A Six Part Series TV Series
Dear Murderer: Series 1 TV Series
Dino Dan: The Complete Series TV Series
Mobile Suit Gundam Age TV Series Collection 1 TV Series
Nova: The First Face of America TV Series
When Calls the Heart: Hearts and Minds TV Series
April 30, 2018
Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
Madea, Bam, and Hattie (Tyler Perry, Patrice Lovely, Brock O'Hurn ) venture to a haunted campground and the group must run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the boogeyman are unleashed.
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Last Flag Flying
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd (Steve Carell ) re-unites with his old Marine buddies(Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne), to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
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Napping Princess
Animated. Kokone has university exams to prepare for, but instead she dozes off. Even when her father is unceremoniously arrested prior to the Tokyo Olympics and the family is hiding away a mystery. Could there be more to her dreams?
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The Square
A man's (David Roberts) life begins to unravel when his mistress (Claire van der Boom) brings him a bag of cash.
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Nella the Princess Knight Childrens
Attack of the Killer Donuts Movie Classic
Revolt of the Empire of Apes Movie Classic
Baskets: The Complete Season Two TV Series
Bugs Movie Classic
The Belle Of New York Movie Classic
Celtic Soul Music
Cartoon Network Steven Universe: The Complete First Season TV Series
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street: Season One TV Series
East West 101: Series 1 TV Series
Masterpiece: Victoria Season 2 TV Series
Power Rangers: Seijuu Sentai Gingaman The Complete Series TV Series
Project Arms: The Complete Series TV Series
Ray Donovan: Season Five TV Series
Smithsonian: Black Wings TV Series
Static Shock: Season 3 TV Series
Elmo & Friends / Cookie Monster & Friends Childrens
Elmo's World: Dancing, Music & Books / The Alphabet Jungle Game Childrens
Elmo's World: Elmo Has Two! Hands, Ears & Feet / Kids' Favorite Songs 2 Childrens
Elmo's World: Favorite Things! / Wild Wild West! Childrens
Elmo's World: Food, Water & Exercise! / 123 Count with Me Childrens
Elmo's World: People in Your Neighborhood / Kids' Favorite Songs Childrens
Elmo's World: Pets! / Sesame Street: A Musical Celebration Childrens
Sesame Street: Big Elmo Fun / Sing Yourself Silly! Childrens
Sesame Street: Elmo's Alphabet Challenge / Learning About Letters Childrens
Sesame Street: Preschool is Cool! ABCs with Elmo / Counting with Elmo Childrens
Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo 3 / Elmo's Musical Adventure Childrens
Celtic Woman: Home - Live from Ireland Music
49 Angels Movie Classic
Is This El Chapo? Movie Classic
Lady Luck Movie Classic
Never the Bride Movie Classic
Wrestling Retro Stars of the 80s Sports
Super Stars Super Series Volume 2 TV Series
April 23, 2018
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate start to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. (Jeremy Ray Taylor, Gerard Butler, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris)
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Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one man: John Kramer. But how can this be? The man known as Jigsaw has been dead for over a decade. (Laura Vandervoort, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Brittany Allen)
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Thank You for Your Service
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Steven (Colin Farrell), a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.(also Alicia Silverstone and Nicole Kidman)
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Remember Me
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man (Forest Whitaker) struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased, and runs before it is repossessed (Jude Law, Liev Schreiber).
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Chasing the Dragon Movie Classic
Rat Fink Movie Classic
SubUrbia Movie Classic
WWE: Clash of Champions 2017 Sports
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: Season Two TV Series
Dr. Oakley Yukon Vet: Season 5 TV Series
Eclipse Series 45: Claude Autant-Lara Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France TV Series
Mafiosa: Season 1 TV Series
Mafiosa: Season 2 TV Series
Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt TV Series
National Geographic: Savage Kingdom Uprising TV Series
National Geographic: The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman TV Series
National Geographic: Titanic 20 Years Later with James Cameron TV Series
Red vs. Blue: Season 15 TV Series
The Paper Chase: The Final Season TV Series
April 16, 2018
Blade Runner 2049
A young blade runner's (Ryan Gosling) discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who's been missing for thirty years.
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Gangster Land
The story of America's most famous mobsters and Al Capone's rise to power, in a brutal gang war culminating with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Sean Faris, Milo Gibson, Jason Patric, Jamie-Lynn Sigler).
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Happy Death Day
A college student (Jessica Rothe) relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer's identity.
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I, Daniel Blake
A middle aged carpenter (Dave Johns) who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario. (also: Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy, Briana Shann )
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Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
Both a biopic of a complicated man and an exploration of the gathering forces that converged to shape a new American cuisine and create the cult of Celebrity Chef (Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain, Francesca De Luca, Rocston Issock).
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Loving Vincent
The world's first fully oil painted feature film, brings the artwork of Vincent van Gogh to life in an exploration of the complicated life and controversial death of one of history's most celebrated artists.
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The Snowman
Detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman. 9also: Rebecca Ferguson, Chlo� Sevigny, Val Kilmer)
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Tom & Jerry: Global Games / World Champions Childrens
Locked & Reloaded Movie Classic
The Taking Of Beverly Hills Movie Classic
Be Cool Scooby-Doo: Season 1, Part 2 TV Series
Better Call Saul: Season Three TV Series
Commander: The Complete Series TV Series
Outlander: Season 1 - The Ultimate Collection TV Series
S.W.A.T.: The Complete Series TV Series
Smithsonian: The Real Mad Men of Advertising TV Series
The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Season Four TV Series
Trial & Error: The Complete First Season TV Series
April 9, 2018
Naples '44
A British Intelligence Officer in Naples at the end of World War II: Norman Lewis's acknowledged masterpiece about a war-torn city and its unforgettable humanity. (Alan Arkin, Ernest Borgnine and voices: Benedict Cumberbatch, Adriano Giannini)
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Friend Request
When a college student unfriends a mysterious girl online, she finds herself fighting a demonic presence that wants to make her lonely by killing her closest friends. (Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan)
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A group of bullied kids (Bill Skarsg�rd, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis) with troubled family lives, band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children.
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About a young Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman), the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases. (also:Dan Stevens, Kate Hudson, Sophia Bush, Josh Gad)
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My Little Pony: The Movie
A dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane 6 embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship to save their home.(voices: Emily Blunt, Kristin Chenoweth, Liev Schreiber, Michael Pe�a )
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The Foreigner
A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities. (Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Charlie Murphy, Michael McElhatton)
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The Concrete Jungle Movie Classic
The Wild Heart Movie Classic
WWE: Best PPV Matches 2017 Sports
Arrow: Seasons 3 & 4 TV Series
DC Starter Pack: Arrow / Gotham / Flash / Super Girl / DC Legends Season 1 TV Series
Gotham: Complete Seasons 1 & 2 TV Series
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Season 6 TV Series
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In: The Complete Second Season TV Series
The Big Bang Theory: Complete Seasons 1-5 TV Series
The Big Bang Theory: Seasons 6-8 TV Series
The Dukes of Hazzard: Complete Seasons 3 & 4 TV Series
The Man from Outer Space Movie Classic
April 2, 2018
A Question of Faith
When tragedy strikes three families, their destiny takes a converging path to discover God's love, grace and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs. (Richard T. Jones, Kim Fields, C. Thomas Howell, Ren�e O'Connor)
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American Made
A pilot (Tom Cruise) lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s (also: Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Caleb Landry Jones).
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Battle of the Sexes
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell, also:Elisabeth Shue, Bill Pullman).
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Brad's Status
A father takes his son (Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams) to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices (also: Jenna Fischer, Michael Sheen).
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The inspiring true love story ofan adventurous couple ( Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy) who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.
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Love Beats Rhymes
When struggling rapper (Azealia Banks) enrolls in a poetry class, she thinks her rhymes will impress her Professor (Jill Scott) and goes to rap clubs and poetry slams, and true love (Hana Mae Lee, Method Man, Common, John David Washington)
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The spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist. (Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr.)
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Rebel in the Rye
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye 9also: Zoey Deutch, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson).
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A sleep doctor tries to protect a family from a demon that feeds on people in their nightmares (Maggie Q, Honor Kneafsey, Sylvester McCoy, Will Kemp)
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The Teacher
The new teacher (Zuzana Maur�ry) to a Bratislava suburban school in 1983 turns life upside down for students and parents (Zuzana Konecn�, Csongor Kassai, Tamara Fischer), but he is well connected in the Communist Party.
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A woman ( Rooney Mara) confronts an older man, her former neighbour (Ben Mendelsohn), to find out why he abandoned her after they had a sexual relationship when she was thirteen (Ruby Stokes).
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Teletubbies Classics: My First Nursery Rhyme Childrens
Teletubbies Classics: Seaside Adventures Childrens
Tom & Jerry: Hearts & Whiskers Childrens
Dead Men Movie Classic
Fade Away Movie Classic
Lock Out Movie Classic
No Regrets Movie Classic
Shock Wave Movie Classic
The Last Days of Billy the Kid Movie Classic
Daredevil: The Complete Second Season TV Series
Death Valley Days Season 14: The Ronald Reagan Years TV Series
Jessica Jones: The Complete First Season TV Series
Nature: Nature's Minature Miracles TV Series
Time Travel Girl: The Complete Series TV Series


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Wilmington, DEHome Menu
Employee Benefits
The City of Wilmington takes pride in offering one of the best employee benefits packages in the area. Benefits include employer-paid benefits and options for employees to purchase additional benefits.
Health Insurance & Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
The City offers several plans administered through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware to eligible employees and their eligible dependents at a shared cost with a nominal employee contribution. Consideration of domestic partnership coverage is made for all employee groups. The plans provide in-network services with coverage at either 90% or 100% and co-pays ranging from $5 to $30 for outpatient visits. The pharmacy coverage is three tier, Generic, Preferred and Non-Preferred, with co-pays ranging from $7 to $35. The vision coverage includes one routine eye examination by a network optometrist or ophthalmologist in a 24-month period and a vision care discount program provides additional cost reductions.
Cash Back Incentive Program
Employees who choose to enroll in medical or dental coverage other than the City's and can provide proof of this medical coverage may be eligible to receive additional income.
Dental insurance is provided at little or no cost to the employee and their eligible dependents. Two plans are available depending on the employee group.
Employee Assistance Program
HMS or Human Management Services, Inc. is a confidential employee assistance program offered to all employees and their eligible dependents at no cost. HMS assists employees seeking counseling on family issues, addictions, workplace difficulties, stress management, life transitions and emotional difficulties. This program provides evaluation, brief counseling and referral, crisis intervention and a 24 hour crisis line. For more information, please visit www.hmsincorp.com.
Life Insurance, LTD & FSA
Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
Life insurance to a maximum of $50,000 is provided to each employee at no cost. Additional life insurance and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance may also be selected for an additional cost.
Long Term Disability
The City provides long term disability insurance benefits at no cost for you and your family in the event you are unable to work due to an accident or sickness for a period beyond six months. The benefit amount is 60% of a regular monthly salary to a monthly maximum of $2,500 with certain offsets included.
Flexible Spending Accounts
The City of Wilmington provides employees the opportunity to save pre-tax dollars/income to pay for qualified health care expenses not covered by the City's plan, qualified dependent daycare services and/or qualified commuter expenses.
Retirement Benefits
Pension & Deferred Compensation Program
The City provides an opportunity to enroll in a pension program with a 2% employee contribution and a 457 program.
Vacation, Holiday and Sick Benefits
Time Off Benefits
Vacation benefits accrue with one 8-hour day per month in the first year or so of employment and increase with your employment time up to a maximum of 25 8-hour days annually. Sick time, or combined leave, is earned at the rate of one 8-hour day per month up to a maximum of 240 8-hour days. The City provides 13 holidays per year with an additional holiday on election years for a total of 14- 8 hour days.
Live Near Your Work Homebuyer Assistance Program
The City coordinates with the State of Delaware's Live Near Your Work (LNYW) program to provide up to $5,000 in homebuyers assistance for newly hired employees, first time homebuyers, and those employees choosing to purchase a residence in one of the City's unique and culture-blended neighborhoods.
Download the Live Near Your Work Homebuyer Assistance Program packet.
Additional Benefits
Blood Bank
The City of Wilmington offers a free membership to employees and paid time off to donate blood, one of the requisite options for membership. Other options are making a payment of $35 or having someone else donate blood in your name.
Tuition Reimbursement
The City encourages employee self-development and continuing education and provides a reimbursement program for eligible employees annually for qualified college or certification courses taken that year.
Donated Leave
The City has established a leave pool to allow employees to donate accumulated vacation and sick leave for potential use in emergency situations by other employees whose leave has been exhausted.
Military Mobilization Pay
The City provides employees on active duty pay equal to the difference between his or her military pay, if higher, and his or her regular base salary for a period of one year.
Mentoring Opportunities
The City provides employees with weekly paid time off to mentor children in qualified programs.
*Benefits for employees under collective bargaining agreements may vary.