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My partner LOVES bananas and desserts involving bananas. I wanted to make her something special to celebrate her completing an intense, four week summer arts workshop. She was so immersed in her workshop that we saw very little of one another. I'd leave for work while she was still sleeping, and she'd come home while I was sleeping. It was the most backward schedule that we have ever had. The week before she finished her program, we made a deal to have a "just us" weekend. And to start off our weekend, I was originally going to surprise her with her favorite ice cream, roasted banana ice cream, but I couldn't find the recipe I bookmarked and was too inpatient to find it while grocery shopping. So instead, I made the next best banana dessert… vegan chocolate banana cream pie.
This was an amazing dessert that set up very nicely. It reminded me of exactly what the real stuff tasted like, but only better and healthier and lighter! What was also great about this recipe was that we were barely able to taste the silken tofu, unlike other silken tofu recipes that I've made before. I can almost guarantee that non-vegans will like this recipe, too!
Vegan Chocolate Banana Cream Pie (adapted from Dairy Free Cooking)
1 (14 ounce) box of silken tofu, drained
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons coconut oil
3 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup raw cashews, finely ground
Your favorite vegan prepared pie crust or graham cracker crust
Prepare the vegan pie crust of your choice according to the recipe. Fit into a 9″ pie plate and bake according to the recipe's instructions. Allow crust to cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
In a blender or food processor, process the silken tofu until creamy. Add the sugar, salt, lemon juice, vanilla extract, and coconut oil and process until well combined and very creamy. Add the mashed bananas and finely ground cashews and process until smooth. Pour into the prepared pie crust and chill for at least 2 hours or until set.
Vegan Chocolate Ganache
16 ounces good quality dark dairy-free chocolate, coarsely chopped
1 (15-ounce) can coconut milk (not light version)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Place the coarsely chopped dark chocolate in a medium-sized bowl. Set aside.
In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, heat the coconut milk until bubbles just begin to appear around the edges and steam rises from the surface. Pour the hot coconut milk over the chopped chocolate and let stand without stirring for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, stir the chocolate-coconut milk mixture until glossy and smooth (this will take about 2 minutes of gentle stirring). Add the vanilla extract and stir until incorporated. Use warm or slightly cooled.
To finish the pie:
Prepare the Vegan Dark Chocolate Ganache according to the recipe. Pour immediately onto the set banana filling and allow to cool completely until set. Chill for at least 1 hour before serving. Serve cold.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Free agent outfielder Jason Bay has reached a one-year contract with the Seattle Mariners, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because there was no announcement by the team.
The 34-year-old Bay is hoping to resurrect his career with the Mariners after three disappointing and injury-plagued seasons with the New York Mets.
``He's a guy that we've been talking to, but nothing's done yet,'' Seattle manager Eric Wedge said. ``It's an interesting story, it's an interesting situation. If you are able to make it happen, you've got to feel good about taking a chance on a guy that's been a great performer at times at the big league level. ... He's had a tough couple of years. I think that if it does come through for us, I think it's a great pickup.''
Last month, Bay and the Mets agreed to terminate his contract with one guaranteed year remaining on his $66 million, four-year deal. The agreement let the Mets spread out the $21 million they still owed him.
Bay hit .165 with eight home runs and 20 RBIs last season. He was slowed by concussions and rib injuries while with the Mets and played only 288 games in three years with them.
Bay is familiar with the Pacific Northwest. He grew up in British Columbia and went to Gonzaga in Spokane, Wash.


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DAR Certificate of 1914 belonging to my great-grandmother.
I don't have many items that belonged to my great-grandmother but the three things I have pertain to the DAR. She and her mother were both early members of the organization. Therefore, this document is quite meaningful to me. Some of you may remember my post about donating the 1901 certificate to the DAR, and they now can't locate it.
The other day, I went to FedEx armed with several items and many questions. What joy to find there was no line, and I had the clerk all to myself. We began with my five cemetery photos, 4 x 6 in color, which I wanted enlarged and put on heavy paper. That was done quickly. Then from my flashdrive, the clerk found an image I had saved and printed it on heavy paper. The last thing was to scan the above DAR document, which measures 14' x 17' and saved it on my flash drive. (There machine didn't do color, but a FedEx nearby does.) The machine used was amazing, as it can scan anything 36" wide and as long as you need. I didn't need the image printed out, just saved..to show you. In the future, I will have some descendant trees printed there. Anyway, everything came to just under $6 and I was very pleased.
Once home, I tried out the flash drive. The DAR certificate was there, but saved as a PDF, all I could get was the much smaller image (at 36% in size) to print out, which is what is above. Yes, I can open the huge document, but of course, can't put it on the blog. Seems like I experienced this problem before.
A quick phone call to FedEx and I was told, I could bring back the flash drive, and they can put the image into jpeg format. Yes, I will do that. The employee was great, and really seemed to know his job and best of all, didn't mind all my questions. I learned, it is a good place to go to get information.
Based on the replies I received from a number of people who had suggestions to my Monday Madness -- Asking For Help#1 post, there are several different ways to put a PDF onto your blog, but no easy way. When I go back to FedEx next week, I will ask for their opinion. Maybe there will be another way.


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JJC CL-3D 3 in 1 Camera Cleaning Kit with LensPen, Blower and cloth Set
This blower effectively "brushes" away unwanted dust from your sensors, lenses, or other sensitive equipment with a gentle blast of clean air.
Lens Cleaning Pen - The JJC Lens Cleaning Pen does away with solvents, harsh cleaning products and messy lens tissues. Just use the soft, natural bristles of the retractable brush to dust away any hard particles and the special 100 per cent safe cleaning agent does the rest. As you clean the special tip of the JJC Lens Cleaning Pen flexes as it follows the contours of the lens. And by applying gentle pressure on the lens and by brushing in gentle circular motions the JJC Lens Cleaning Pen removes any smudges in seconds. Besides protecting the brush, the cap also replenishes the brush tip with JJC cleaning compound each time it is replaced and twisted. JJC Lens Cleaning Pen is safe for for all types of video, photo and binocular lenses, including multi-coated. It's a non-fluid cleaning agent with integrated brush, non-toxic and cannot dry out.
Microfibre Cloth
You should always carry a lens cloth to keep your lens or filter in tip top condition free from rain drops and dust. If not your pictures will suffer from lack of contrast flair and blurred patches.
A microfibre cloth is the best you can use to protect the surface of the lens as you clean, because the cloth is non abrasive. Keep one in your gadget bag/back pocket at all times.
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1 x CL-P1 Lens Pen
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Dr. Seuss meet the eldritch horror of H.P. Lovecraft
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I love zombies with an all consuming passion that goes beyond healthy and makes my in-laws nervous. It's what I do, it's what I love. Second only to that is H.P. Lovecraft. This is a great mashup of H.P. Lovecraft's[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…


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When I think of Japanese food, I think of a carnivorous feast full of sashimi, nigiri, and sushi rolls; chicken or pork tonkatsu; chicken, beef, or salmon teriyaki; porky udons; and much, much more. Everything but vegan. Six months ago, I would have snubbed at the idea of a vegan Japanese meal. I would have thought, "such a sad waste of calories" at that time.
Interestingly, since I've made the decision to eat less meat, and more veggies, my palate has become more open-minded to vegan and vegetarian fare. I seek out vegan or vegetarian restaurants when I'm traveling. We recently visited the East Bay and headed to the Gourmet Ghetto (aka, Berkeley) for some vegan/vegetarian Japanese food at Cha-Ya. I have to admit, I was still a little hesitant about vegan Japanese food because I had some doubts that it was going to be as good as your traditional Japanese meal. We ordered miso soup; sunomono; udon with vegetable tempura; and pickled burdock and pickled melon sushi rolls, and a seaweed salad sushi roll.
The dinner was ridiculously amazing and filling! I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it, and how much I look forward to going back. What stood out the most was the simple but savory miso soup that oozed with umami. Oh. My. Word. It was just delightful. I like a good miso soup, and I order it just about every time we dine at a Japanese restaurant. Most places are either too salty or too stingy with the tofu and wakame. I can honestly say that Cha-Ya offers some of the best miso soup.
I left Cha-Ya feeling inspired to cook up some vegan Japanese food at home. I started with a vegan miso soup. It turned out pretty good… it's definitely a close second to Cha-Ya's 🙂
Miso Soup with Tofu and Wakame
6 cups vegan dashi (6 cups of water + 12 inch piece of kombu soaked overnight)
3-4 tablespoons gluten-free red miso paste
1-2 tablespoon gluten-free white miso paste
1 block firm tofu (fresh if possible), drained and cubed
2 tablespoons wakame, soaked in water for 5 minutes, drained and roughly chopped
1/4 cup green onion, chopped
When ready to make the soup, bring the vegan dashi up to a simmer (not a full boil), then take out the kombu. Bring to a full boil, and then add the wakame and simmer for one minute.
Place a small strainer over the broth. Add the miso [a little bit at a time to your preference, since miso varies in saltiness] by dissolving and pushing through the strainer. [The strainer helps to avoid a lumpy miso soup. Lastly, do not boil the miso or else you risk ruining the miso flavor.] Add the tofu and green onion.
Serve immediately.


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City of Lincoln enjoys a perfect 4th of
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[July 07, 2014]
LINCOLN - Friday morning the
temperatures were cool, but the sky was a bright blue with light
fluffy clouds scattered round about.
It was the perfect beginning of what would prove to be a perfect
day for celebrating the 4th of July.
The Holiday's activities in Lincoln began at approximately 9:30 a.m.
as kids gathered on the south side of Scully Park for the ninth
annual old-fashioned Children's Walking Parade. The parade that is
hosted by the Lincoln Park District has become a very popular 4th of
July attraction.
Children gathered with their bicycles, parents brought little ones
in strollers and wagons, and pet parents proudly brought out their
dogs to join in the march from Scully Park to the Lincoln Park
District Recreation Center.
Every entry, including the pets, were wildly and beautifully
decorated to commemorate the day. Kids had spent time decorating
their bikes with flags, flowers, streamers and more, all in the
patriotic colors of red, white and blue.
Before the parade began, the judges had a tough job to do; going
around to each age group and picking which was the best of best in
When the parade stepped off, this year there was a new addition to
the escort vehicles, an Army Jeep driven by Lincoln Fire Chief Mark
Miller, with Roy Logan of the park district as his passenger.
The parade left Scully Park headed south to Wyatt Avenue and then on
to the recreation center. Along the way, there were several small
clusters of parade watchers, cheering and waving at parade
Chuck and Judy Conzo walked along the route and rewarded parade
watchers with gifts of candy.
When the group arrived at the park district they were treated to
bottled water and sweet snacks. Mayor Keith Snyder awarded the
winners of the various categories their prizes.
When that part of the day ended, the kids were invited to join in
the annual park district versus city of Lincoln Fire Department
water fight.
Each year, there is a definite disagreement on who won the battle,
and this year was no different, but it was pretty obvious who stole
the show.
With the city of Lincoln Police Chief Ken Greenslate and Mayor
Snyder taking the side of the park district kids, they seemed to be
working diligently on getting the best of fire chief Miller, and at
times they did.
Then in an odd turn of events, it appeared that the police chief
turned on his team mate, dousing the mayor with a trash can full of
water. Not to be outdone, the mayor with the assistance of Roy Logan
attempted to dump a black trash bag full of water on the police
chief! What no one can figure out, even looking at the numerous
photos of the melee, is how on earth did Mayor Snyder end up with
the trash bag stuck on his head?
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While, in years past, the goal of the battle appeared to be
the storming of the fire truck, this year, Chief Miller was the
obvious target for many of the kids. They even managed to steal
away a hand pump weapon the chief had brought, and turned it on
him, as well as each other.
When the water was shut off, there
was still fun to have as the gallons of liquid had left large
puddles in the park district lawn, and a river of water along the
street gutter. Many of the kids took advantage of this, to do a
little more splashing before calling it a day.
In the evening, folks flocked back to the park district to enjoy a
night of good music and, of course, fireworks. The activities began
at approximately 7:30 p.m. with a DJ on hand playing some great
Families came out with their lawn chairs and blankets. Kids
played on the lawn while parents and grandparents watched from the
comfort of their chairs.
The food stand stayed busy most of the evening with cold drinks,
corn dogs and fries seen in the hands of many.
Kids also enjoyed spending time at the park district's playground.
There were also plenty of sparklers and smoke bombs being set off
before the real show began.
As the nine o'clock hour passed, the color guard stepped out onto
the lawn and proudly displayed our nation's colors and the Star
Spangled Banner played over the sound system.
Then the rest of the night was all about the fireworks. With
multiple loud and colorful launches to kick off the night, guests
cheered and clapped. The fireworks this year were excellent, and it
appeared that everyone enjoyed them.
At the end of the evening, with the last cascade of explosives
saluting the end of the day, crowds clapped, cheered and honked
their car horns in appreciation.
When the last light of the last explosive faded into the night,
guests returned to their cars, and headed out. It was another great
4th, a perfect 4th in fact. Now all that remains is to look forward
to another one next year!
[By NILA SMITH]
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Police have arrested a 27-year-old man on parole for assault for allegedly stabbing two children in a Brooklyn elevator, killing one of them and critically injuring the other, a law enforcement official says.
Daniel St. Hubert was arrested in the Ozone Park section of Queens shortly after police identified him as a suspect in the Brooklyn stabbings at a news conference Wednesday evening, according to the official.
Investigators had received a tip about a cell phone St. Hubert had that enabled them to track the phone's pings, the official said. That in part led police to start staking out a home of a known associate of St. Hubert.
He was carrying another kitchen knife with him when he was found, the official said.
It wasn't immediately known whether he had an attorney.
St. Hubert was paroled on May 23 for domestic assault, and has a violent past that includes attacks on a corrections officer and a police officer, authorities said at a news conference Wednesday evening. Police say he's been arrested nine times in the past.
Law enforcement sources told NBC 4 New York earlier Wednesday that police made a preliminary DNA match on the knife used in the attack on 6-year-old Prince Joshua Avitto and his 7-year-old playmate Mikayla Capers. The boy was killed in the brutal stabbing and the girl was critically injured.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton would only say that police had forensic evidence linking St. Hubert to the crime.
Investigators have said the attack appeared to be random, and may be linked to the deadly stabbing of a teen blocks away two days earlier.
The suspect attacked the children with a steak knife in the building on Schenck Avenue in East New York, police said. They were both stabbed in the torso, and were believed to be on their way to get frozen treats.
The little girl has a collapsed lung and is fighting for her life, her family said.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again—the grill was the original toaster. And there's nothing like a quick sizzle on the grill to transform ordinary pound cake into a singular, even extraordinary dessert. Especially when paired with a pineapple "salsa" and tequila-scented whipped cream.
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- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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- 2 to 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
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- 4 fresh mint sprigs, for garnish
- 1. Place the cream in a chilled mixer bowl or in a large metal bowl. Beat with a mixer until soft peaks form, starting on the slow speed and gradually increasing the speed to high. The total beating time will be 6 to 8 minutes. When soft peaks have formed, add the confectioners' sugar, cinnamon, and tequila. Continue beating the cream until stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes longer. Don't overbeat the cream or it will start to turn to butter. The tequila whipped cream can be made several hours ahead. Refrigerate it, covered, until ready to serve.
- 2. Lightly brush each slice of pound cake with butter on both sides. Cook the pound cake, following the instructions below for any of the grills, until lightly toasted. If desired, rotate each slice a quarter turn after 1 minute to create a handsome crosshatch of grill marks. You may need to cook the pound cake slices in more than one batch.
- 3. Place the pound cake slices on plates. Top each serving with a spoonful of Pineapple "Salsa" and a dollop of tequila whipped cream, garnish with a sprig of mint, and serve at once.
- Preheat the grill; if your contact grill has a temperature control, preheat the grill to high. Place the drip pan under the front of the grill. When ready to cook, lightly oil the grill surface. Place the slices of pound cake on the hot grill, then close the lid. The pound cake will be done after cooking 2 to 4 minutes.
- Place the grill pan on the stove and preheat it to medium-high over medium heat. When the grill pan is hot a drop of water will skitter in the pan. When ready to cook, lightly oil the ridges of the grill pan. Place the slices of pound cake in the hot grill pan. They will be done after cooking 2 to 4 minutes per side.
- Preheat the grill to high, then, if it does not have a nonstick surface, brush and oil the grill grate. Place the pound cake slices on the hot grate. They will be done after cooking 2 to 4 minutes per side.
- Preheat the grill to high; there's no need to oil the grate. Place the pound cake slices on the hot grill. They will be done after cooking 3 to 5 minutes per side.
- Rake red hot embers under the gridiron and preheat it for 3 to 5 minutes; you want a hot, 2 to 3 Mississippi fire. When ready to cook, brush and oil the gridiron. Place the pound cake slices on the hot grate. They will be done after cooking 2 to 4 minutes per side.
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A reader recently pointed out that the devil has visited Denver at least once, at Los Caporales night club years back, to woo women with his unparalleled dance moves, or display his unmatched prowess on the mechnical bull depending on who you talk to. The devil is different for all of us. And he comes in many forms. Not sure where that fits into the story of this Diablo on South Broadway, or what inspired the name. But there is one thing I know: Jesse Morreale has set his sites on another Denver neighborhood, put Sean Yontz in charge the kitchen and together they have put together another slick Mexican-themed restaurant with unmatched crowd-drawing appeal.
By now the good folks who over the years have brought us such eateries as Mezcal, Tambien (RIP) and Chama (RIP) have figured out a thing or two about niche marketing, location and bringing Mexican-like food for the masses. They have done an amazing job with their detailed decor choices over the years, and El Diablo is a step up-- both in seating capacity and amount of kitsch Mexicana. If it wasn't because I liked their food and style, I admit the decor at El Diablo would all seem a little bit forced, what with the tall altars a la Virgen side-by-side with Diego Rivera replica paintings next to dia de la muerte skulls, luchadores and other random Mexican (and Chicano) miscellany. That being said, this is one slick low-rider bathroom tile painting:
We were there on the second Saturday of September, less than a month after El Diablo opened its doors. There was, we were told, an hour and a half wait. Luckily, my wife and I arrive everywhere we go at least a half an hour late, and that left our poor friends to wait it out themselves. When we rolled in we were already thinking of just getting slices from Famous when to our surprise, our friends were seated at a prime patio table. That's a good thing, I suppose, just not sure how an hour and a half turns into 20 minutes--but this is a new operation-- so a few miscommunications are to be expected.
To clarify, this place was slammed, and there was more than one flustered looking server that passed by us at race-walk speed. I think I read somewhere that they can seat 400, and three weeks in I didn't expect perfection from the service, the timing or the execution, but I know that these guys know what they're doing, so I figured it was worth a try. Plus, I heard they were planning a late-night taco take-out service, and that in itself makes this place worth patronizing. That being said, I am getting old, and just like I was happy to eat outside because it was so loud inside, I will be happy to be in bed by midnight most weekends instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to eat fresh tacos at 4am. Nevertheless, this is likely the single greatest contribution El Diablo is making to those lucky energetic youngens that hang out into the wee hours on South Broadway.
But back to the night at hand. Our server was very friendly and attentive. The kitchen and bar, however, seemed like they weren't quite as prepared, as the food took a real (emphasize real) long time to come out, and they were out of my first two beer selections (tap selections from local brewer Del Norte). Fair enough, I'm a patient guy and we were there to relax and enjoy ourselves with friends. As soon as I had my beer, we were happy to munch on fresh tortilla chips (for two dollars and fifty cents) and dip into some familiar salsas.
The chips and salsa are served with I think the same table salsas they serve at Tambien, of which my absolute favorite is the smoky red (chipotle or chile mora?). I like it so much (and am so entirely without shame) that after running out of chips (and waiting too long for more) I started to eat some with my fork.
The menu is full of new taco choices and everything is proudly made in house and sourced locally if possible. They run around $6-7 for a plate of three taqueria-sized tacos. They do also come con copia (with two corn tortillas) and a respectable amount of filling. Below are the lamb tacos, El Diablo's take on barbacoa, I suppose, but not really. They were still very good. A creative twist on a classic with a smoky salsa and queso panela (de la canasta, or the basket).
The steak and potato tacos were quite good as well. Moist chunks of steak, crisp yet soft potatoes, mildly spicy salsa.
My wife ordered the conchinita pibil tacos. They came with black beans, thinly sliced greenbeans and were sprinkled with cheese. They were excellent, the star of our taco sampling that night.
To everyone's surprise I ordered something that wasn't tacos. The duck mole (unlike many traditional moles) was just what you might envision when you think of a mole. It was brownish, bittersweet and rich. The duck was cooked well, but the whole thing needed salt. Just a few dashes, though, brought out the rest of the complex flavors in the mole and combined with some Mission figs and sweet plantain made for a very good dish. (Though check out this duck mole.)
The desserts were amazing and quite possibly the highlight of the night. Background to foreground in the picture below was a delicious capirotada (bread pudding), three flavors of flan (horchata, chocolate Abuelita, vanilla) and a sundae with vanilla bean ice cream, roasted piñones and a habanero-caramel sauce. Each one was better than the next--starting with the sundae and ending with the bread pudding topped with dulce de leche ice cream, which I could have laid down in and rolled around in if there only would have been enough of it.
The rest of the menu recycles some classic dishes form places like Tambien: a red chicken mole, shrimp cocktail, pozole. They also have newer items like a huitlacoche quesadilla and puerco pibil (read Denveater's post for a more thorough run through the menu).
The same astute reader, who enlightened me about the devil's visit to Denver, also engaged me in a stimulating dialogue about Mexican food in Denver. He brought up the point that El Diablo falls into that ironic category of Mexican Restaurants Without Mexicans (MRWM). El Diablo, however, I pointed out, separates itself from other MRWMs by making good food, using authentic and non-mainstream dishes and executing them well.
The same astute reader, who enlightened me about the devil's visit to Denver, also engaged me in a stimulating dialogue about Mexican food in Denver. He brought up the point that El Diablo falls into that ironic category of Mexican Restaurants Without Mexicans (MRWM). El Diablo, however, I pointed out, separates itself from other MRWMs by making good food, using authentic and non-mainstream dishes and executing them well.
South Broadway has been waiting for something like this for years: a restaurant that serves Mexican food worthy of discerning Mexican food lovers like myself, yet hip enough for the typical SoBo hipster and equipped with canned PBR for the old-school Broadway drunks. El Diablo has good food, there is no doubt about it, but it will always fall into that category of restaurants brining mostly Mexican food to mostly non-Mexican diners.
I'm not sure where that debate takes me. I don't think El Diablo is the devil, and I'd rather that Joe Average Hipster learns to like Mexican food from a place like this, and maybe stops calling Hacienda Colorado "Mexican Food" at all. But I do think it is a little sad that people will flock to places like El Diablo and give it rave reviews (although deservedly--it really is quite good), while many other places I've eaten and written about are better-- only more obscure... and more Mexican. Stayed tuned, as I have one of those places coming up.


text: Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 8.1 June 9, '14 Comments [31] Posted in Sponsored By This is an "updated for Windows 8.1" version of my popular original article Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7. I've got a 256 gig C: drive that is an SSD, but things add up and I've noticed that in the last week or so I've only got about 20 gigs free and it was feeling cramped. A few hours later, I have 80G free. Here's how. Warranty: There is none. Please read carefully and with all things you find on a random blog, be careful because you have no one to blame but yourself. However, if you take a few minutes, read carefully and do even a few of these tips or just run Disk Cleanup, you'll get lots of space back. Press Windows Key + W and type "Free up." You'll see a few options. We're going to run two things. First "Free up disk space on this PC" which runs full screen as a "modern app." From here you can see how much space your Windows Store apps take up, as well as pictures, Videos, etc. You can also empty your recycle bin from here. It'll also give you a decent idea of how your personal files take up space. If you click "See my app sizes" you'll go to this screen where you can quickly uninstall apps. I don't bother with anything under 100 megs. Now, run "Free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files" which is the Disk Cleanup desktop app. This app is your main line of defense and lists all kinds of things it can clean up. Be sure to click the "Clean up system files" option to run Disk Cleanup as Administrator. This will allow it to find and identify a lot more files for cleanup. When you run Disk Cleanup as admin, as I have below, it is able to cleanup after Windows Update files. Note the difference between the screenshot above (run normally) and the one below (after clicking "Cleanup System files." It's found 238 megs of files from Windows Update that aren't needed. You may find lots more. Set your Windows Store Mail app to only download a month of mail. See how mail above uses 514 megs of space? That's because I told it to download all my mail. From within the Windows 8.1 mail application, press Ctrl-C, then click Settings, then go to Accounts and under Options for your account change the "Download Email from..." option to the last month, or even less. Disable Hibernate - I have a desktop, and I prefer just three power states, sleeping, on or off. I don't use Hibernate. Plus, I have 12 gigs of RAM, and hibernation uses as much disk space as you have RAM. From an administrative command prompt, type "powercfg -h off" to get that space back. Got me back 12 gigs. It's up to you. Don't turn it off if you use the feature. Virtual Memory - If you've got 8 or more gigs of RAM, it's likely that Windows has allocated more Virtual Memory as a file on disk than needed. It's not bad, and it's not a bug, it's just conservative. For example, I have 12 gigs of RAM and Windows has allocated a 12 gig "swap file." Interestingly, it's recommending (not sure if that's to me, or to itself) that I have only 5 gigs. Boom, change it manually and I get 7 gigs free. Not a big deal with a 500 gig drive, but a HUGE deal on a 128 gig SSD. Type Windows Key+W, then "Advanced System Settings" and enter. From here, go to Performance Settings, then Advanced. Under Virtual Memory, click Change. This is usually managed for you. Change it only if you feel you know what you're doing. Here I've moved it to my D: drive, opening up space for my smaller C: drive. %TEMP% Files - Even though Disk Cleanup is great, sometimes for whatever reason it doesn't always get stuff out of the TEMP folder. I recommend you try to delete the TEMP folder. I do this from the command line. Open up an administrative console, type "cd /d %TEMP%" (without the quotes, of course). Then, go up one folder with "cd .." and type "rd /s temp" Do be warned, this command says to TRY to delete the whole folder and everything underneath it. It's very unambiguous. If you don't feel comfortable, don't do it. If you feel in over your head, don't do it. If it screws up your computer, don't email me. Next, I do a "dir temp" to see if the folder really got deleted. It usually doesn't because almost always some other program has a temp file open and the command can't get remove everything. If it DOES remove the folder, just "md temp" to get it back fresh and empty. This got me back 12 gigs. I'm sure you'll be surprised and get lots back. Delete your Browser Cache - Whether you use Chrome, IE or Firefox, your browser is saving probably a gig or more of temporary files. Consider clearing it out manually (or use the CCleaner mentioned below) occasionally or move the cache from your browser's settings to another drive with more space. Clean up System Restore - Windows keeps backups of lots of system files every time something major (driver installation, some software installations, etc) happens, and after a while this can take up lots of space. It uses a service/subsystem called ShadowCopies and can be administered with a tool called vssadmin. Now, the EASIEST way to handle this is just to run Disk Cleanup, then click More Options and "Clean up…" which will delete all but the most recent System Restore data. That's what I did. That got me back lots of space back on my C: drive. You can also go to System Properties, then System Protection, then Configure and not only control how much space to allow for System Protection but also delete preview restore points as seen in the screenshot at left. Alternatively, you can use the vssadmin tool from an admin command prompt to to do important things. One, you can set a max size for the System Restore to get. Two, you can set an alternative drive. For example, you could have the D: drive be responsible for System Restore for the C: drive. You can use the commands like this. Note that you can put whatever drive letters you have in there. I ran it for each of my three drives. Note that this isn't just used for System Restore, it's also used for the "Previous Versions" feature of Windows that keeps some number of Shadow Backups in case you delete something and didn't mean it. Kind of a mini, local time machine. Point is, this isn't a feature you probably want off, just one you want kept to a max. Here's the command line I used. Your mileage may vary. vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /On=C: /For=C: /MaxSize=15GB Understand what's taking up all that space with SpaceSniffer or WinDirStat or TreeSize Free. - I've used a large number of Windows Folder Size checkers, and the one I keep coming back to is WinDirStat. WinDirStat is oldish but is Open Source, and it works great in Windows. It's wonderfully multi-threaded and is generally fabulous. It'll help you find those crazy large log files you've forgotten about deep in %APPDATA%. It saved me 10 gigs of random goo. SpaceSniffer is also amazing and really lets you drill into what's going on space-wise in your disk. Remove Old Stuff - Just go into Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features and tidy up. There's likely a pile of old crap in there that's taking up space. I removed some Games and Game Demos and got back 5 gigs. Be sure to SORT by size to find big stuff AND sort by "installed on" to find old stuff you've forgotten! Also note the "Total size" at the bottom that no one notices. This is the total size of Desktop apps, not Windows Store apps. Uninstall anything evil - If you want to get a quick look at what's on a machine and uninstall LOTS of stuff quickly, look no further than NirSoft's My Uninstaller (download). Remove Toolbars (they think they need them and they never do and won't miss them), and anything that looks like it might destabilize their system. I check out toolbars, add-ins, etc Wasteful TempFiles/ScratchFiles Settings in Popular Programs - Most programs that need scratch space have a way to set a ceiling on that Max Space. Go into Internet Explorer or Firefox, into the options and delete the Temporary Internet Files. Set a reasonable size like 250 megs or 500 megs. I've seen those cache sizes set to gigs. If you've got a speedy connection to the internet, that's just overkill. Check other programs like Adobe Photoshop and other editors and see where they store their temporary files and how large they've become. I used SpaceSniffer (mentioned above) and was shocked to find 5 gigs of old temp files from a year ago in little used programs. Podcast Apps, especially iTunes - If you've configured iTunes to automatically download podcasts, be aware that these can app up if you use the default settings. Set your podcasts to keep only the last episode or last few, rather than 10 or more unlistened-to files. NTFS Compression - That's right, baby, Stacker (kidding). This is a great feature of NTFS that more people should use. If you've got a bunch of folders with old crap in them, but you don't want to delete them, compress. If you've got a folder that fills up with text files or other easily compressed and frequently access stuff, compress 'em. I typically compress any and all folders that are infrequently accessed, but I'm not ready to toss. 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DistanceIn the city
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Alternative name Le Spot
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amis surfeurs - Beaucoup de surfeurs qui viennent au spot du Moule ont été hébergés chez nous et ont été très satisfaits, vous pouvez voir leurs commentaires sur notre site,page "livre d'or": http://www.guadeloupevacancesloc.fr/livredor.html
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Floridian surfer coming over from Dominical - I will be returning to Dominica again this year and maybe my board will make it this time (long story). Anyway after I explore Dominica some more I would like to come by ferry to Guadelupe any insight on breaks,places to stay and transport,as well as, any mysto spots on Dominica would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Blake
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help me please - I'd like to leave in guadeloupe to work and surf for a year so if someone did it before could you give me infomations about the people, cost of the life, is it easy to found a place to leave there, how to found a job ....Thanks a lot and I hope to see you soon
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Nowadays, some young students are let to study abroad by their parents. However it has some negative psychological effects, it is totally is an effective improvement in their living skills. The aforementioned will be enlightened more.
In the first place, both depression and anxiety can be mentioned as two worst effects of inhabiting and studying abroad especially during adolescence period. The most important reason is that youth have more sensitive spirits therefore they need more attention and support than adults. Moreover, studying can be a stressful process that creates more psychological pressure on students. As a result, students maybe faced with educational failure during their college. According to recent research that has been carried out in UCL University, educational performance of student mostly is being threatened by depression and anxiety. It is suggested by experts that young students especially who live independently should use relaxation techniques, do exercises and keep a close relationship with their parents to avoid detrimental aspects of going abroad.
Aside from few negative effects, continuing education in a foreign city or country is a unique and perfect experience. Youth learn how to react to social challenges, how to treat people in real world and gain a great deal of knowledge about living methods. As they experience living alone, they have to solve their social and personal problems solitarily. Therefore, their mental abilities like social problem solving and self confidence are going to be improved. Not only social and psychological abilities will be influenced but also their economical and financial managing abilities will be organized more effective, and of course this is not all.
To put the whole issue in a nutshell, I myself to a great extent agree with the idea of studying abroad because of the fact that its merits of considerably are more.


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Vibe brings people, projects, and processes together in one secure place to enhance team productivity—no matter where the team is or what devices they use.
What's New in Vibe 4.0.2?
More intuitive sharing, a redesigned interface, folder content to CSV export, filter and pinning enhancements, and Vibe desktop and mobile app improvements.
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Flexible productivity at your fingertips. From one location, your teams can manage, discuss, create, edit, and respond to each other using a wide variety of tools.
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Augment or replace an existing intranet. With drag-and-drop ease, your teams can create custom landing pages and manage their content–all on their own. Dynamic interactions blossom through shared documents, surveys, blogs, and business-focused micro-blogging, all without spending weeks or months setting up pages.
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Hello there!
Even though I haven't been writing in this blog very much during the last moths, I had the chance to read many new (and old) interesting blog posts, articles and tutorial about Erlang.
Some of the stuff I had the chance to read was really well done and inspiring, therefore I would like to share these contents with you. In this blog post of mine I am going to make a list of the 4 articles that I loved most, with a brief description for each of team. Let's start then!
Interesting Erlang stuff you should take a look at!
Here is my brief list; as I did in one of my previous blog posts I would like to remember that the order of the links is totally random!
- Create and Deploy Your Erlang/Cowboy Application on Heroku in 30 Minutes: In this blog post, Roberto Aloi explains how to create and deploy easily a web application written using Erlang and Cowboy. I liked this article very much: Roberto is one of the most famous Erlangers out there and even though the application he presents is really easy it's always a pleasure to read some of his code. Moreover the part related to deploy focuses on Heroku the well known cloud platform, showing how easy it is to deploy our Erlang application there.
- Continuous Integration for Erlang With Travis-CI: continuous integration (CI) is a powerful tool. While I was searching for a good CI service to be used with one of my Erlang projects I ended up reading this nice blog post by Ward Bekker. In his tutorial Ward explains briefly what are the main tool we have in Erlang to automate our tests and teaches how to connect a public GitHub repository to Travis-CI. I really liked this blog post, and if you are new to CI I suggest you to read as well this article by Martin Fowler: Continuous Integration.
- Meck and Eunit Best Practices: TDD and testing in general are one of the things I am trying to learn more in these months. Even though this post by David Reid is not very recent (2011) I suggest you to read it if you want to learn more about Meck, the most famous Erlang mocking library written by Adam Lindberg. Once more, if you are new to mocking and so on, I suggest you once more to read a great article by Martin Fowler: Mocks Aren't Stubs.
- A Week with Elixir: That's true, Elixir is not Erlang, but I think we all should read what the great Joe Armstrong thinks about this new interesting language written by José Valim. In his blog post Joe gives his impressions about Elixir and its syntax, providing code samples and really wonderful insights. If you want to know more about Elixir you can go to the official web page or consider buying this book by Dave Thomas.
And that's all folks! I hope you will enjoy these stuff as much as I did!


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We know RealID is here to stay, both ingame and in the future in relation to additional optional features.
I need to point out that I don't mind the concept of AnID, I'm just not all that keen on RealID, still, in it's current form.
This comes from the "optional" part of RealID.
- It's an option to use it or not.
- It's an option to apply parental controls to your (maybe adult) account, or not.
Which really comes down to:
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Second arrest made in Sikh temple riot
Dozens seen fighting outside Yuba City Sikh temple
A second arrest has been made following a riot at the Sikh temple in Yuba City earlier this month.
Parminder Kooner, 47, turned himself in to the Sutter County Sheriff's Department on Monday.
Deputies had been looking for Kooner, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Investigators believe Kooner stabbed Ajaib Malhi, 30, in the back during the melee in the temple parking lot Nov. 10.
Kooner is being held without bail.
Last week, a 43-year-old temple director was also arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Mangal Sanghera of Yuba City remains in jail, accused of stabbing Bilbir Bains, 46, in the stomach.
Officials said that Sanghera was also hit in the head with a shovel during the fight.
When Sutter County sheriff's deputies arrived at the temple, they found about three dozen people fighting, some with weapons that included sticks, knives, shovels and metal bars.
Members of the Sikh community told KCRA 3 the violence resulted from an ongoing power struggle for control of the temple and its money.
"If the government does not get involved, someone will be killed," said Didar Bains, the temple's founder.
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The Best NES Fighting Games
List Rules Games don't have to be console exclusive, as long as they were released for Nintendo Entertainment System at some point.
If you owned a NES at any time during your life, then it's safe to say there were probably a few fighting games in your collection. With challenging combos and finishing moves to pull off, fighting games are some of the best multiplayer games you can get your hands on. Franchises like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat made the genre famous, but today there are a plethora of others that are just as fun. With so many great options to choose from, there was never a shortage of games to play for fans of the genre. Since some games were much better than others, we've decided to rank the best NES fighting games of all time.This list will feature the most popular and best selling fighting games that were released for NES. While many of these games were console exclusive, we're allowing non-exclusives to be a part of the list as well. Vote for your favorite items on this poll, including River City Ransom, Punch-Out!! and more. Vote for your favorite video games below, and feel free to add any that you think deserve to be on the list.


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A San Francisco abalone diver died in a coastal cave near Elk Sunday, June 29. The same ocean conditions that caused his death delayed recovery of the body of Feng Chang Wei, 44, of San Francisco, until early Tuesday morning.
The Mendocino County Sheriff"s Office said a group of five friends went abalone diving in the area of Saint Anthony"s Point Sunday morning when the strong current and rough conditions began pushing them into a sea cave. "Several of the men clung to the rocks trying to avoid being pulled into the cave," the MCSO reported.
Wei was struck by a wave and pushed into the cave, the MCSO reported. A large wave knocked Wei into the roof of the cave, rendering him unconscious. His friends entered the cave and tried to rescue him, but the conditions forced them to swim out to save their own lives, the MCSO reported.
It took the group an hour to get out of the water, up the cliffs and find a phone to call for help, said John Ross, Elk Volunteer Fire Department assistant chief.
Agencies that responded included Elk VFD, Elk Ambulance, Mendocino County Sheriff"s Office Search and Rescue, Mendocino Volunteer Fire Department, a Cal Fire engine and helicopter, Mendocino Coast District Hospital Ambulance, a United States Coast Guard boat and helicopter, California Department of Fish and Wildlife and CALSTAR.
Helicopters, boats and rescue divers searched all day Sunday, but could not find Wei.
During the search, the Coast Guard helicopter hoisted down a rescue swimmer to the mouths of all the sea caves in the area to make visual searches, said Brian Ward, public affairs officer for USCG Humboldt Sector. He said the rescue swimmer could not see Wei in any of the caves.
A rough ocean and high tide cut short recovery efforts on Sunday.
On Monday, MCSO Search and Rescue returned to the location, with the assistance of Elk Volunteer Fire Department, to see if it was safe for divers to enter the water, the MCSO said. The SAR dive team found the ocean was still too dangerous, so they searched nearby beaches and the cove visually from land.
They were unable to locate Wei.
MCSO SAR attempted another recovery early Tuesday morning during low tide. Two SAR dive team members returned to the cave where Wei was last seen.
At around 9 a.m., the dive team located Wei still in the cave and confirmed he was dead. Wei"s body was transported to Fort Bragg where family members made a positive identification, the MCSO said.
The cause of death was not obvious at the time Wei"s body was recovered and is pending completion of an autopsy and toxicology screening.
Third fatality
Wei"s death is the third abalone-related incident in five weeks on the Mendocino Coast. A diver died May 31 while diving off Brewery Gulch on the south side of Mendocino Bay, and another died June 6 after falling from the cliffs on the north side of Mendocino Headlands State Park.
Ross said that he"d like to see fishermen use higher visibility wet suits and equipment, such as fluorescent colors.
Black wet suits make it difficult to see fishermen and divers in distress. When the helicopters arrived, they were able to quickly spot an Elk volunteer firefighter wearing a bright pink hat and vest in the water during the search, he said.
Abalone season is closed through July.


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The Los Angeles Kings built a Stanley Cup-winning team this past season. For 29 other franchises, the construction proceeds. By appearances, some – like the Minnesota Wild, having signed Zach Parise and Ryan Suter – will try to do it with splashy free contracts; others – the Philadelphia Flyers come to mind – will try to do it by moving chess pieces around in trade.
What are the Capitals up to? One could say that the latest installment of construction began with the trading deadline – an opportunity to trade assets for futures, continued through the first days of the free agent signing period, and then will continue through the summer until the Caps take the ice on opening night.
So, what have they to show for this year's version of the process? Well…
In the two weeks ending with the February 27th trading deadline, the Capitals were one of four teams that did not execute any trades (Pittsburgh, Calgary, and Carolina being the others). One might have argued that with unrestricted free agents-to-be Mike Knuble, Jeff Halpern, Tomas Vokoun, and Dennis Wideman, that the Caps had assets to move to stock up of draft picks and/or prospects. Then again, on deadline day the Caps were one point out of eighth place in the Eastern Conference and three out of the lead in the Southeast Division. One could have made the counter-argument that the Caps were hardly out of the playoff race, and to sell off assets would have been tantamount to conceding the season. The Caps were left with two plausible arguments – one to sell in preparation for seasons to come, the other to buy to gird themselves for a playoff push. What they did was stand pat.
The Capitals made a number of minor transactions after the season ended that looked more like faint aftershocks of deals that might have been made at the February trading deadline. After the Caps dealt forward Chris Bourque to Boston for forward Zach Hamill, they traded two of those free agents to be. Tomas Vokoun was traded to Pittsburgh for a 2012 seventh-round draft pick, and Dennis Wideman was traded to Calgary for the rights to defenseman Jordan Henry and a 2012 fifth-round draft pick.
Those deals left the Caps with a total of 11 draft picks for the next big mile marker in the NHL calendar, the 2012 entry draft in June. One of those draft picks would be used as part of a package to fill perhaps the biggest hole in the roster, a second line center. The well-traveled 54th overall pick (from Boston to Toronto to Colorado to Washington) was packaged with prospect forward Cody Eakin for Dallas Stars center Mike Ribeiro. That would be the only deal the Caps would swing involving 2012 draft picks, using their remaining ten picks to re-stock its prospect pool.
And that brings us to the free agent signing period that started on July 1st. The Capitals have not generally been swimmers in the deep end of the pool of free agents, so any thought of the club signing either of the prizes of this free agent class – New Jersey forward Zach Parise and Nashville defenseman Ryan Suter – was at best idle speculation or summertime dreaming. What the Caps did do, however, was add some depth. Forward Joey Crabb, formerly of the Toronto Maple Leafs, was signed on July 2nd. Ditto defenseman Garrett Stafford out of the Montreal Canadiens organization on July 2nd, defenseman Jack Hillen out of the Nashville Predators organization on July 3rd, and center Ryan Stoa on July 7th out of the Colorado Avalanche organization.
To that add the re-signings of Capitals' properties Kevin Marshall, Jay Beagle, and Mathieu Perreault, plus the earlier re-signing of forward Mike Carman on June 29th and goaltender Dany Sabourin on May 30th, and it made for a relatively quiet beginning of the summer for the Capitals. The ins-and outs so far…
Taken individually, one could argue that at the trading deadline the Caps were in the midst of a playoff fight and did not have a compelling reason to effectively concede the 2011-2012 season by selling off assets such as Dennis Wideman, Tomas Vokoun, Mike Knuble, or Jeff Halpern (or Alexander Semin, for that matter). One could argue that the 2012 draft class being not especially noteworthy, the Capitals did not have a compelling reason to bundle draft picks or prospects with the aim of jumping into the top-five from their position at 11th or 16th overall in the first round. One could argue that as a rule, unrestricted free agents are overpriced relative to production. Minnesota had its reasons for signing Zach Parise and Ryan Suter to matching 13-year/$98 million contracts, but unless the Wild are contending for a Stanley Cup – and soon – those contracts are not going to look nearly as good on, say, July 4, 2014 than they looked on this past July 4th when they were signed.
There are 95 days from July 9th to opening night on October 12th. The Caps have added an important piece and filled a persistent hole with the acquisition of Mike Ribeiro. But it is not as if their immediate competition in the Southeast Division have been idle. Tampa Bay filled a hole at goaltender with the acquisition of Anders Lindback from Nashville, signed a top-four defenseman in Matt Carle from Philadelphia, and added depth with Benoit Pouliot from Boston. Carolina doubled their complement of Staals by obtaining Jordan from Pittsburgh to play with brother Eric. Winnipeg added some scoring depth with forwards Olli Jokinen and Alexei Ponikarovsky, and added depth at goaltender with Jonas Gustavsson acquired from Toronto (edit: no they didn't...as a reader helpfully points out, The Monster is in Motown with the Red Wings).
In the end, we are still at the beginning of the summer. But while taken individually one could argue for the lack of action taken by the Caps since February to upgrade the parent roster, the club is now left with "trades" as the remaining tool to improve the roster (unless you are holding out hope that Phoenix' Shane Doan will exchange one shade of red for another and sign a contract with the Capitals). And one has to think that the Caps will do something in trade, because if they do not, the roster they have at the moment (the biggest change being Mike Ribeiro in and Alexander Semin out) is not likely to be considered a favorite to win the Southeast Division, let alone be considered a favorite to go deep into the 2013 playoffs. Don't think the rest of the summer won't be interesting.


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NEA Health Information Network and Sprint expand Internet safety resources for educators and parents
New website and Spanish language resources kick off second year of raising internet safety awareness
WASHINGTON - January 13, 2009 -
The National Education Association's Health Information Network (NEA HIN) and Sprint (NYSE:S) renewed their Internet safety partnership by announcing expanded resources to help educators and parents guide young teens in their use of social technology and Spanish language resources to raise Internet safety awareness in Hispanic communities. This is the second year of NEA HIN's partnership with Sprint to bring these important resources to young people and the adults in their lives.
Bnetsavvy.org, is a comprehensive Web site where educators and parents can find Internet safety information, classroom tools, news stories, message boards, and articles written by experts, educators, parents, and teens on topics that cover the spectrum of social technology from social networking sites to cyberbullying and online gaming. Educators and parents can also subscribe to bNetS@vvy, a bimonthly e-newsletter offering the latest news and resources on Internet safety.
Sprint has committed $350,000 to the expansion of these resources in its second year of the Internet safety partnership with NEA HIN. Sprint continues to work with NEA HIN to help educators and parents learn more about the risks and opportunities of technology and gain access to tools that would help young people safely navigate their digital world.
"NEA HIN is excited to continue our partnership with Sprint. Our expanded bNetSavvy Web site and continuation of the bNetS@vvy e-newsletter will provide educators and parents with an invaluable tool to help them keep kids safer and more savvy when using technology," said Jerry Newberry, executive director, NEA HIN. "In addition, the continued emphasis on Spanish language resources is essential to making these resources reach as wide an audience as possible. Sprint is to be commended for its commitment to keeping kids safer and tech savvy," continued Newberry.
"We are thrilled to continue our partnership with NEA HIN and are excited about the new resources that we are bringing to parents and educators," said Debby Ballard, director of Community Relations for Sprint. "In this ever growing digital world, adults must educate themselves about what children are doing online. At Sprint, we are committed to providing educational resources to parents and educators to enable the conversations about Internet safety, and bNetSavvy is one way we are doing that."
Bnetsavvy.org is a key part of Sprint's 4NetSafetySM program. 4NetSafety provides children, teachers, parents, guardians and other adults with the tools and information they need so youth, particularly those in the susceptible "tween" range, can grow up using the Internet more safely. To learn more about 4NetSafety, please visit www.4NetSafety.com.
All 4NetSafety funding is provided through Sprint Project Connect, Sprint's long-running phone recycling program. Sprint Project Connect accepts wireless phones and accessories of any make and model, and from any carrier. Anyone wishing to support 4NetSafety and dispose of their old phone in an environmentally safe manner is encouraged to visit a Sprint Store or go online to www.sprint.com/projectconnect to print a postage-paid mailing label.
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Since its inception, NEA HIN has addressed numerous health and safety related issues that affect NEA members and students, including chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, breast and cervical cancer, teen pregnancy, mental wellness, physical activity and nutrition, school safety, and school environmental quality, including asthma and indoor air quality.
As new health and safety issues arise, HIN develops initiatives to address them, always with an eye to selecting those topics that are responsive to the expressed interests and concerns of NEA members.
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"Not that long ago, there were nights I went to sleep in strange places praying I wouldn't wake up. After another night of bad decisions, I'd lie down with my heart speeding inside my chest like it was about to burst through my skin. My thinking was clouded, and my talent was one day closer to being totally wasted."
"I prayed to be spared another day of guilt and depression and addiction. I couldn't continue living the life of a crack addict, and I couldn't stop, either. It was a horrible downward spiral that I had to pull out of, or die. I lay there – in a hot and dirty trailer in the North Carolina countryside, in a stranger's house, in the cab of my pickup – and prayed the Lord would take me away from the nightmare my life had become."
Josh Hamilton, the top pick of the 1999 baseball draft, wrote those words four years ago, in ESPN the Magazine, after he finally reached the big leagues. Hamilton had nearly drained his talent down a crack pipe. "I'm proof that hope is never lost," Hamilton wrote.
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Although Hamilton completed a remarkable, inspiring comeback — he won the 2010 American League MVP award — staying sober has not been easy for him. In 2009, pictures of an intoxicated Hamilton emerged online. He apologized. As the Rangers advanced through the 2010 playoffs, all the way to the World Series, teammates doused him with ginger ale, instead of beer, during postgame celebrations. One Rangers coach keeps a constant eye on him, making sure Hamilton doesn't slip.
An unspeakable tragedy unfolded in Arlington, Texas last night. Shannon Stone, a firefighter from Brownwood, Texas, leaned over a left-field railing to catch a foul ball that Hamilton casually tossed into the crowd. This ritual — the big leaguer lobbing a ball into the stands, letting a fan go home happy — is ballpark tradition, like peanuts and Cracker Jack.
But in this case, Stone fell over that railing, and plunged 2o-feet onto a concrete area behind a scoreboard wall. Witnesses saw Stone bleeding from his head. Stone died, from cardiac arrest, on the way to the hospital. Stone's young son was at the game with his father, and witnessed his fall.
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You feel for so many people here. First and foremost, you feel for the Stone family. A father was trying to catch a ball for his kid, like so many dads before him, and paid an unfathomable price. You feel for the kid who lost his dad. You feel for the witnesses — who knows how many times that scene will unfold, unprompted, in their minds?
And you've got to feel for Hamilton. After the game, Rangers president Nolan Ryan said Hamilton was "very distraught" over the accident. Hamilton has overcome so many challenges, and the one facing him now will be no less difficult. Hamilton is not responsible for Stone's death, but sadly, he played a hand in it. What if Hamilton threw the ball just a little further into the crowd? What if he just tossed that particular ball aside? You can't help but ask these painful "what ifs," and Hamilton is likely asking these questions of himself. It's unfair for any man to bear that burden.
Let's hope that the Stone family copes with this tragedy, as best as they humanly can. And let's hope that Hamilton battles this hardship with the same strength, courage, and humility that he has battled so many others.


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Puzzle of the Day - Egyptian Pyramid
For those of you who are passionate about history and archeology, this week's jigsaw puzzle of the day should get your attention. This 3D puzzle measures 8 by 8 inches at the base, and consists of 80 pieces, specially shaped to fit together into a pyramid shape. Each side features images representing four Egyptian Pharaohs, such as King Tut, Khufu, Cleopatra and Nefertiti. The Egyptian Pyramids were ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures built as tombs for Egypt's Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. The pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest of all Egyptian pyramids and the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence. The pyramid builders were not slaves or foreigners as some people might think. Some of the builders were permanent employees of the pharaoh. Others were conscripted for a limited time from local villages. As a reward they were given tax breaks, shelter, food and clothing. The 3D Egyptian Pyramid puzzle by Master Pieces will not require too much manual labor to complete, and you probably won't get a tax break for it, but it certainly is a challenge. When it is finished, you may even want to keep it assembled as a desk ornament and a trophy of your puzzle superiority.


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Residential Home
Residential homes are any place, facility, or home operated by any institution, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group to provide full-time care, 24 hours per day, for more than four children, who may remain at the facility in accordance with R.S. 46:1403.1, who are not related to the operators and, except as provided in this Paragraph, whose parents or guardians are not residents of the same facility, with or without transfer of custody. However, a child of a person who is a resident of a residential home may reside with that parent at the same facility.
Maternity Home
Maternity homes are any place in which any person, society, agency, corporation, or facility receives, treats or cares for within a period of six months, more than one illegitimately pregnant woman, either before, during or within two weeks after childbirth. This definition shall not include any place or facility which receives and provides services for women who receive maternity care in the home of a relative within the sixth degree of kindred, computed according to civil law, or general or special hospitals in which maternity treatment and care is part of the medical services performed and the care of children only brief and incidental.
Child Placing Agencies with Subprograms of:
- Foster Care Services - a child placing agency that places children into an approved family foster home for a planned period of substitute care when their own families cannot or will not care for them. Substitute Family Care Programs are no longer licensed by the Department of Children & Family Services
- Adoption Services - a child-placing agency that places children in a family household of one or more persons that has been approved by the agency to accept a child for adoption.
- Transitional Placing Services - a program that places youth, at least 16 years of age, in an independent living situation supervised by a provider with the goal of preparing the youth for living independently without supervision.
Juvenile Detention Facility
Juvenile detention facilities provide temporary safe and secure custody of youth during the pendency of juvenile proceedings when detention is the least restrictive alternative available to secure the appearance of the youth in court or to protect the safety of the child or the public, as described in R.S. 15:1110.
Child Day Care Center Licensing
As a reminder, all of DCFS child care facility licensing functions transferred to the Louisiana Department of Education (LDE) on October 1, 2014. This is in conjunction with Act 868 of the 2014 Legislative session.
Please visit the Louisiana Department of Education's website for additional information.
Facilities Licensed by DCFS
View a list of licensed facilities to search by parish, facility name, license number or license type.