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Matthew is tasked with staging a condo in a prestigious new building -- the tallest in the city. The view is incredible, but it's not the first thing people notice.
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The Penthouse
Matthew must stage an opulent, two-story penthouse suite that belongs to a wealthy entrepreneur.
Follow the course of 20th century rescue missions, and reveals the strategies that keep fighting forces alive. Witness the largest rescue mission in history when a volunteer armada rescues trapped soldiers at Dunkirk in WWII.
The Admirals
The story of two of history's greatest admirals, Japan's Isoroku Yamamoto and the United States' Chester Nimitz, and how they led their fleets in the battle for the Pacific in World War II.
Iceberg Cowboys
Barry Kennedy travels to the remote reaches of Newfoundland's Iceberg Alley and goes on a hunt with a very special group of mariners known as Iceberg Cowboys.
Cold Wheels
Barry Kennedy is about to do something that no sane driving instructor would ever advise... jumping on the brakes at high speed on sheer glare ice.
Wildlife Vet
Barry Kennedy gets his hands dirty (really dirty) when he assists Dr. Michelle Oakley as she does a full bison autopsy out in the wild. Watch them meet the challenges of handling big game and big chills at the same time.
The Gunboats
Hear the dramatic stories of the ships that go where the large ones can't. Witness the daring, dramatic rescue of General MacArthur by a squadron of PT boats in WWII. Relive the dangerous gunboat patrols through the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
Ice Pilots
Barry Kennedy heads north with the bush pilots whose skill and fearlessness makes survival possible for countless others living in the remote north. Landing on frozen lakes and rivers, pilots fly in supplies and fly out the injured.
A Tale Of Two Condos
Mother and daughter duo Maureen and Bridget are challenged to stage not one, but two cramped condos simultaneously! At 465 and 797 square feet respectively, prospective buyers are going to have a difficult time imagining how to live there.
Rancher Revival
Bridget and Brent team up to stage a house in desperate need of an update. With '70s-style wood paneling, mauve carpets and embossed floral wallpaper, the stagers certainly have their work cut out for them
Great Carrier Battles Of WWII
Watch the aircraft carrier's rise to dominance during crucial engagements of WWII. From the attack on Italian battleships anchored at Taranto to Pearl Harbour to the Doolittle Raids.
Empty Nest Syndrome
If Bonnie really wanted to sell her house, it would be sold. Instead, she fired her first two agents, and then tried selling it herself. With her daughter away at university, maybe this time she'll be able to let go.
Carrier Victory
The story of the strategic change in the aircraft carrier's role as support vessel prior to World War II. Watch as the Japanese and Americans race for supremacy of this new offensive weapon.
Dog Musher
We go to the dogs when we visit Frank Turner of Muktuk Adventures to learn what dog mushing is all about. In addition to the dog mushing, Barry gets a taste of what it's like to care for over 100 irrepressible snow-loving sled dogs.
The story of what it means to be a Marine - and what it takes. Follow recruits as they endure the institution of "boot camp" and find out why it's so tough.
The Destroyers
The greatest triumphs of these ships in 20th century naval battles. See the destroyer used in every theatre in WWII, from shore bombardment at the beaches in Normandy on D-Day to fending off Kamikaze attacks at Okinawa.
Amphibious Assault
Recount dramatic shore assaults from the disaster of Gallipoli to the massive D-Day invasion of WWII.
Bringing It Home
Stager, Dina turns a critical eye toward her own home, as she prepares the four-bedroom property for sale.
Child's Play
Matthew's skills are put to the test when he faces a new challenge in his career: how to stage a nursery occupied by an 18-month old toddler!
Pharma Sutra
This is the story of the search for the female equivalent of Viagra. Meet the strong characters, the women, the schemers, radicals, and brainiacs behind one of the biggest drug stories of the century.
The Feng Shui Fuss
Mother and daughter design team Maureen and Bridget have four days to bring definition and flow to an empty penthouse.
Them's Fightin' Words
For the first time, stagers Bridget and Matthew must work together to stage an empty 3200 square foot house into an attractive family home.
Ice Hotel
It's like the biggest snow fort you ever built! We join Barry and the Ice Hotel crew in Quebec as they construct this architectural wonder out of nothing but frozen H2O. The team must work night and day to get ready for the grand opening!
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The Museum Of Akhalkalak
Posted 10 April 2005 - 10:58 PM
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The Akhalqalaq Museum of Regional Studies is the only one in the Akhalqalaq
region. With its unique exhibits it carries out a special role in the
Javakhq cultural life.
There are five parts in the Museum - friendship of nations, Javakhq history,
Javakhq ethnography, war glory, the Soviet period and that of intellectuals.
One of the unique exhibits of the Museum is the sun calendar. At the same
time it must be mentioned that because of ignorance and absence of financing
exhibits are disappearing from the Museum. During the 70s the copper cannons
of Paskevich's time disappeared from the Museum.
Hakob Hambaryan, head of the Museum mentions that if there is a small
possibility of state care towards the Museum, they can not only protect what
is left, but find the lost exhibits and bring new ones to the Museum.
According to the agency "A-info", the state of the Museum building is much
graver. It was built in 1830s and is now considered subject for
deconstructing, and it can be destroyed any time. Mels Mahtesyan, deputy
governor of the Akhalqalaq region mentions that the reconstructing of the
building is meaningless and the Museum needs a new building. The directors
of the Museum have no hope of getting help from the state. And the regional
deputy governor hoped that thee Javakhqians living in Moscow will try to
save the only museum of the Akhalqalaq region.
Posted 08 July 2016 - 11:19 AM
5000-year-old settlement discovered in Chobaret village, Samtskhe-Javakhk
Cultural settlement of river Araks has been discovered in Chobaret village, Samtskhe-Javakhk, akhaltskha.net reports
According to the source, the artefacts date back to mid-4th century BC. The settlement has a history of more than 5000 years.
According to Aspindza Municipality, this site has been a subject for archaeological excavations. The research is conducted with the efforts of Georgian National Museum and the city of Melbourne, Australia.
Stone buildings, living and utility quarters, barns, fireplaces and various tableware tools have been discovered during the excavations.
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BEIRUT - Before any money changed hands, the Lebanese players were given detailed instructions on how to rig football matches. Once they'd carried out the fix, they went to a Beirut hotel to collect their reward — payments ranging from $8,000 to $12,000 per match.
The discovery last month that 24 players — including six involved in World Cup qualifying matches — had been implicated in cheating has shocked Lebanon, an Arab country of 4 million where football has helped unite the deeply divided population still recovering from 15 years of sectarian war that left the place in ruins when it ended in 1990.
"It was match-fixing at its highest level," said Asaad Saeed Saeed, a Lebanese lawyer who helped investigate the scandal that stretches well beyond the Middle East.
The players' roles were exposed by a three-member investigation committee of the Lebanon Football Association.
The investigators were led by Jordanian Fadi Zreiqat, general secretary of the West Asian Football Federation. The committee interviewed 65 people, including 44 players, 18 club officials and three referees.
"Player after player came in front of us, and told us when and how he was approached, for which game he was asked to act, how much money they offered and who gave him the money," Saeed, who served on Zreiqat's panel, told The Associated Press in an interview in Beirut.
More than 170 hours of interviews have been recorded and transcribed as part of a report handed over to Lebanese FA officials, along with recommended sanctions.
"The players said the money paid for fixing international matches, including Asian games, was from $8,000 to $12,000 for one game, depending on the importance of the match, the position of the player and his ability to manipulate the result," Saeed said.
The players told the investigators of the detailed instructions they received on how to achieve the fixed results.
"Sometimes they told the players how to play, and said they should do a specific move or that they should move around in a certain way during the game," Saeed said, adding that all the people questioned were required to take an oath, either on the Qur'an or the Bible, promising to tell the truth.
"Some said they were told to play in a way to get a yellow card or a red card to be sent off and some even said they were instructed to make sure they stay off the field by pretending they were sick or injured."
Saeed said three names repeatedly came up in the testimony of those players who admitted to being part of the match-fixing plot: Lebanon internationals Ramez Dayoub and Mahmoud al-Ali and club official Fadi Fneish.
Midfielder Dayoub has played for Selangor in Malaysia, and striker al-Ali has played for Persiba Balikpapan in Indonesia. Fneish is an official with Beirut-based Al Ahed club who also served as a translator for Lebanon's national team.
"The players said one of those three persons either talked to them (about fixing) or gave them the money after the deal," Saeed said.
Some players said they were approached in the dressing room before matches at different stadiums, although most plots were developed and payments made in one of three hotels in Beirut, Saeed said.
When investigators interviewed Dayoub, al-Ali and Fneish, all three denied the allegations.
"They were the only ones who said they know nothing, absolutely nothing about such things as buying and selling matches and said they were not involved in any conspiracy in football," Saeed said. "By saying they have never even heard of match-fixing, we believed they were like (criminals) denying the crime even though all data and evidence we collected showed they were involved."
Subsequently, the three men received the harshest punishments from Lebanon's FA: Dayoub, al-Ali and Fneish were banned for life and each fined $15,000. FIFA, football's international governing body, was asked to extend the ban worldwide.
Dayoub and al-Ali also publicly denied any involvement in match-fixing and are appealing their bans. Neither of the two players responded to attempts by the AP to seek comment, nor did a lawyer representing them.
The Asian Football Confederation said it reviewed a summary of the report from the investigation in Lebanon, but found no evidence that Dayoub played a role in helping Qatar beat Lebanon in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match.
The Lebanon investigation focused on finding the match-fixing ring leaders and active participants, not trying to discover which and how many matches were rigged.
"The committee hopes the results of this investigation will close the file of match-fixing permanently and turn the page in Lebanon's football," said Zreiqat, the chief investigator.
Saeed said he wished the committee could probe further, saying investigators should have been given the authority to look into the players' bank accounts and video records of the hotels to find material evidence. Under Lebanese laws, they were not allowed to look at either, leaving the panel to recommend sanctions based on testimony of players, officials and referees.
"We are fully aware that we did not extinguish the problem, but at least we stopped it from spreading," Saeed said. "I wish we had the powers to go further and investigate deeper to find out who is the big boss here. We've established that the three are involved, but there is someone above them and we don't know who that is."
Lebanon has never qualified for the World Cup. And the only time the country qualified for a continental tournament was in 2000 when Lebanon hosted the Asian Cup in Beirut.
There is no professional football competition in Lebanon and domestic clubs tend to be tied to political parties that are deeply rooted in the country's various Muslim and Christian sects.
While the quality of the domestic league is poor, Lebanese fans have rallied behind the national team which has, under German coach Theo Buecker, beaten stronger teams including Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in the past year and even Asian heavyweights like South Korea and Iran.
With the national team finally translating some of the passion for football into quality on the pitch, the match-fixing scandal came as a huge blow.
"Personally, I am very disappointed with a couple of guys I really trusted," Buecker was quoted as saying by Gulf daily Sport360. "I was putting a lot of effort, a lot of time a lot of work into making a path in this country, and some really stupid idiots have destroyed everything."
The scandal also hit the team's morale ahead of a World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan this week (March 26), contributing to a 1-0 loss in Tashkent. Lebanon did beat Thailand 5-2 in Beirut on March 22 in qualifying for the 2015 Asian Cup.
The win over Thailand was a boost for the players and disappointed fans, although revelations of cheating and corruption were still too raw for many to forgive.
Some are convinced the loss in Qatar reached far beyond football and almost amounted to treason.
"It was horrible, just horrible for the fans," said Charbel Krayem, a football writer for Al Akhbar newspaper in Beirut.
The fans "felt bad because the players had no problems getting paid for selling a match, selling the game and selling their country."
Also striking was the fact that among the sanctioned players, six were players on Lebanon's Under-21 team.
"The revelation that Lebanon is raising a bunch of gamblers, who would one day wear the national jersey is the most sickening for me," Krayem told the AP.
Dayoub's and al-Ali's families were shocked by the punishment and said in recent interviews with Al Arabiya satellite TV channel the allegations were unproven.
Both players come from modest backgrounds. Al-Ali's mother said her son does not even own a house. She said the player, his wife and their five children live with them in northern Lebanon where clashes between Lebanese factions on the opposing sides in Syria's civil war frequently erupt, putting civilians in crossfire.
"If Mahmoud has properties and I don't know what else, we'll leave," said al-Ali's father, a coffee vendor. "What would be the problem if there is all this money? Why would we sit in danger?"
Dayoub's mother said the ban was unjust and ruined her son's future.
"Ramez does not have (bad) morals at all," she said. "I am his mother, one of the closest people to him, I would have felt something. If my son had in fact done what they say, I will be the first one to call for him to be punished."


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NASHVILLE --- Despite getting off to a slow start, the Tennessee State University women's basketball team defeated Murray State, 72-65, to pick up its fifth straight home win Monday night in the Gentry Center.
Tennessee State (10-14, 7-4 OVC) led by as many as 18 points and had to hold off a late Murray State (8-14, 1-9 OVC) rally in the victory.
Chelsea Hudson led all TSU scorers with 16 points while Jayda Johnson scored 11. Briana Morrow and Jemilah Leonard each finished with 10 points.
Murray State was paced by Jessica Winfrey's 17 points while Taylor Porter (14) and Janssen Starks (11) also posted double-figures.
Without its starting point guard the TSU offense was stagnant early on. Midway through the opening frame, the teams had played to an 11-11 tie.
Over the next six minutes there were three ties and four lead changes. TSU was trailing, 20-19, when the Lady Tigers used a 14-1 run, fueled by six points from Briana Morrow, to capture a 34-21 advantage.
With 34 seconds on the clock, Murray State scored after going five minutes without a bucket before TSU went into halftime with a, 36-24, led.
TSU opened up the second half with six unanswered points but MSU responded with a rally and cut the deficit down to 49-40.
On the next possession, Jemilah Leonard buried a triple to put the Lady Tigers back on top by double-digits. TSU went ahead, 63-47, when I'mani Davis scored on a break-away lay-up at the 6:21 mark but the visitors wouldn't go away.
The Racers went on a 14-3 run to slice the Lady Tiger lead down to just, 66-61, with less than three minutes remaining.
TSU was leading, 68-63, when Murray State was forced to foul.
The Lady Tigers were able to make enough free-throws to keep the Racers at bay.
Tennessee State returns to action on Saturday, Feb.15 across town at Belmont. Game is scheduled for 5 p.m. in the Curb Event Center.


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The Testimony of Creation
As we see in today's passage, the Old Testament develops the theme of creation to show us that God is the true sovereign over all. The applications of this idea are too numerous to mention, but they include the fact ...Read More
God Creates the Universe
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For Our Instruction
What is your attitude toward the Old Testament? Do you treasure it as the very Word of the living God? Do you avoid reading it because you find its stories and laws perplexing at times? Are you hungry to learn ...Read More
Stunting Worship
Reflect on ways you might involve your physical senses in worshiping God in your private devotions.Read More
Respecting God's Judgment
Eli said: "It is the Lord. Let Him do what seems good to Him." Can you make this affirmation from the depths of your heart in difficult times as well as good times?Read More
To Be Continued
The history of Israel — the history of all those who by faith in Jesus alone are reckoned as God's people — continues today. The story did not end when God closed the canon of Scripture, the church continues to ...Read More
The Worship of a Servant
We are good at asking the Lord to give us certain things, but are we equally adept at thanking Him when He answers our prayers? Perhaps one reason why we forget to worship Him for His blessings is that we ...Read More
The Tower of Babel
Matthew Henry comments, "Those who aim at a great name commonly come off with a bad name." In our sin, all of us want to promote our fame at the expense of humble service to the Lord. How do you ...Read More
The Table of Nations
Even though God's blessing rests upon Shem's line, the separation of humanity into different peoples and cultures as judgment for sin (Gen. 11:1–9) serves His purposes. The Lord is the One who allows any society to flourish, and we can ...Read More
Noah Found Favor
God knows our actions in advance from all eternity as part of His hidden will (Deut. 29:29), and He brings His secret will to pass by first announcing an intention and then moving us to respond. But we are not ...Read More


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Make these four decorative boxes (a ribbon, star, apple and bus) for gifts or party favors.
Size of boxes: 1.75 in. x 1.75 in. (when using the PDF printables)
(approx. 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm)
Baby shower boxes
Mini dollhouse
Ribbon handle boxes
Lighthouse gift box/ tea light holder
Tea time
House warming set
Creativity fills the heart and I hope that you will find that this is true with all A Little Hut projects.
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Vespa in Great Neck: Sporting dinner in Great Neck
Maybe I'm too competitive but I often consider dining a sport where each course constitutes a round with a winner and a loser. At a recent meal at Vespa, I placed in the middle
Vespa Cibobuono, which has stood at the corner of Northern Boulevard and Great Neck Road since 1992, closed for a while last year for renovations and reopened in October 2012. Not much has changed; it's still a friendly neighborhood spot that doesn't stray too far from the Long Island Italian pack — right down to the desultory vegetable garnish adding color (and not much else) to each main dish. (The wine list, however, is several cuts above average; credit the owner, a native of the Piedmont, arguably Italy's greatest winemaking region.)
My friend Joe won the first course. His funghi trifolati was a savory mélange of sauteed mushrooms. Two pureed soups, one of carrot, one of fennel and zucchini were fine. My salad came in last: an enormous quantity of blandly dressed arugula with some sliced mushrooms and shards of Parmesan.
Joe took the main course too, with excellent grilled galletto, Cornish hen, which the menu described as semi free range. (A fascinating image, but I think they meant semi-boned, free range.) I did pretty well with veal scaloppine topped with chopped radicchio and peas — a new one on me, and very tasty. Venetian-style liver and onions wasn't going to make any converts, but pleased my liver-and-onion-loving companion. Joe's wife was the loser here: she had a huge helping of overcooked orecchiette with thin slices of sausage, the kind of dish that makes you feel guilty that you didn't stay at home and cook it yourself.
Vespa Cibobuono is at 96 Northern Blvd., Great Neck, 516-829-0005.


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THERE is a new crew onboard which will try to sail Fiji's sugar industry to better days. But with the same age-old equipment and archaic farming methods, will the industry be saved by the millions of dollars now being poured into Fiji Sugar Corporation's coffers?
We have heard so many times that the industry is at a crossroad and in trouble. These are attributed to dwindling cane production, milling and transportation inefficiencies and cash flow problems within FSC. In its 2017 annual report, FSC auditors bluntly stated: "The financial statements indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that cast significant doubt about the Corporation's ability to continue as a going concern."
The Corporation has been incurring significant losses during recent years. For the year ending 31 May 2017, FSC incurred an operating loss of USD19.2m and net loss of USD21.8m. The Corporation is also not generating adequate cash flows to meet all its commitments and obligations as and when they fall due, said the auditors.
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IT'S been a year since Tropical Cyclone Winston roared through Rakiraki in north-western Fiji leaving a trail of destruction and suffering in the small township.
While the recovery is slow, Winston has left one group of people in such a state that it's breaking up families and taking an economic toll on Rakiraki's future. The Penang sugar mill established in 1878 lies dead now. Winston caused extensive damage to the mill and its current owner, the Fiji Sugar Corporation, is yet to announce what will happen to the facility.
At the time of closure in February 2016, around 300 workers were employed at the mill. Now, close to two thirds of those employees have been moved to other mills or have resigned. Before Winston came and in order to save money, FSC was already talking about reducing operations at the Penang mill by turning it into a syrup factory.
"This is the corporation's way of saving money for other investments and utilising our own assets to produce good quality sugar. The main reason we are going to produce only syrup at Penang mill is that instead of spending...
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NBC New York—People expected the federal government shutdown to have a lot of negative effects, such as cuts to senior benefits, employee furloughs and national parks closures. But who could've predicted that Halloween would be taking a hit as well?
According to the NFA, the shutdown and overall state of the economy will be weighing on shoppers' minds going into the spooky season.
This year, overall sales are predicted to reach $6.9 billion, dropping 13 percent from 2012.
Last year, the average Halloween enthusiast spent about $80 on costumes, candy and merchandise. This year, shoppers are estimated to spend only $75 on holiday items.
Halloween—which has traditionally been the kick-starter for the holiday shopping season—is the second biggest holiday for decorating and partying next to Christmas.
Retail analyst Jeff Green said that disappointing back-to-school sales gave a glimpse into the less-than-stellar holiday shopping figures predicted by the NFA.
"The disappointed back-to-school sales, coupled with the threat of this government shutdown, has really affected the mood," Green told The Herald-Tribune. "Even though consumers were dealing with a lot of extraneous things in 2012, the mood felt better than it does this year."
About a quarter of consumers said that the state of the economy would impact their Halloween spending plans this year, according to NFA data.
But with some stores stocking their shelves as early as two months in advance, there is still time to see if the predictions come true. More than one third of the 158 million Halloween consumers that will open their wallets this season started buying before Oct. 1, according to NFA.
"Halloween will be far from a bust this year," said Matthew Shay, chief executive of the National Retail Federation. "After a long summer, the arrival of fall will put millions of Americans in the spirit to partake in traditional and festive activities."
Major Halloween retailers are hoping the same. Halloween pop-up stores, which take over vacant spaces temporarily for the holiday season, are opening in record numbers this year. Spirit Halloween is opening 1,050 stores nationwide, the largest number of pop-ups in the company's 30-year history, according to spokeswoman Lisa Barr.
"It's only Oct.1. It's hard to know what the season is going to be like," Barr said. "The number of stores we operate have increased more than 5 percent over the last year—that's a good sign for us."
Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us still plan to boost the number of seasonal employees they bring onboard, while some companies like Target, plan on trimming their holiday hiring in anticipation of the grim sales.
While predictions vary on whether the government shutdown will truly put a damper on this holiday season, the reality is that most individual retailers rely on holiday shoppers for about 40 percent of their annual revenue. Overall, holiday sales account for 20 percent of the entire retail industry's income.
Even smaller business owners are crossing their fingers and keeping a close eye on the numbers. Tom Ritchie, owner of a local Halloween and party supply chain in Port City, Florida, about 100 miles south of Tampa, is optimistic that sales won't dwindle.
"Halloween is on a Thursday night this year, which is the second best day behind a weekend night," Ritchie said.
"So parties will carry over into the weekend in November. We expect to see a lot of kids and adults celebrating this year."


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Although the current global business climate is showing signs of volatility, with various geopolitical circumstances such as a potential no-deal Brexit, the trade war between the US and China and a potential economic slowdown in Germany all affecting business confidence, the Irish economy continues to succeed. The recent quarterly report by
One trend which has experienced significant growth in terms of the modern workplace is that of coworking spaces.
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Tales (tails?) from the life of Axel, a naughty but lovable wire-haired three year old fox terrier living in Philadelphia, USA. Not an ordinary dog - Axel is very opinionated, especially on issues pertaining to animal welfare and human silliness.


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Jewish holy book.
A Targum is a translation of part of the Bible into Aramaic. Most targums are not literal translations but paraphrases incorporating commentary and amplifications. There are three extant targums on the Pentateuch (Onkelos, Jonathan and Neofiti), two on Esther and one on most other books of the Hebrew Bible.
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The Aramaic BibleEdit
The Aramaic Bible (translation of Targums into English, in 22 volumes) pub. T & T Clark
- The Earth was without form and void, desolate of people and empty of all animals
- Targum Jonathan for Genesis 1, 2 amplifying "The Earth was without form and void"
- And God called the light Day, and he made it so that the inhabitants of the world might labour during it
- Targum Jonathan for Genesis 1, 5 amplifying "And God called the light Day"
- God blessed the seventh day, more than all the days of the week
- Targum Jonathan for Genesis 2, 3
- Make for yourself sharp scalpels, and circumcise the sons of Israel
- Joshua 5, 2 improving on "flint knives"
- And the soul of my master will be hidden in the treasury of life before the Lord our God
- I Samuel 25, 29: Translator's comment is "Targum inserts belief in afterlife"
- Learn good conduct at all times and in love of it you will grow ever stronger.
- Proverbs 5:19
- Let him who is honoured be meek.
- Proverbs 15:33
- His flesh became soft like turnip from fear.
- Ruth 3, 8 amplifying "he was afraid"


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American Chopper: Mark Buehrle Bike (60 minutes)
OCC has been commissioned to build a bike for Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox. Mark pitched a perfect game, and his wife wants to surprise him with a special gift, an OCC chopper. Jr. continues working on a project for his biggest client Coleman.
The Buehrle episode will be repeated tonight at 10 pm CT and next Thursday (November 26) Thursday December 3 at 7 pm CT.
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Posted by Zel Allen's nutgourmet on December 4, 2011
Garlic and chestnuts might seem like an unlikely pairing, but wait 'till you taste this awesome and easy, buttery spread. It has become so addictive I simply can't keep my fingers out of the bowl.
Unfortunately, the little bowl of creamy, brown chestnut butter is not very photogenic so I hope you'll take your palate on this trip instead of your eyes.
In my home, life becomes rosier when chestnuts are on the holiday menu. I can say with confidence that this savory chestnut butter has no equal. With the addition of a bit of kitchen sorcery and a whirl in the food processor, naturally sweet and starchy chestnuts become transformed into an irresistible creamy spread that stands out on any variety of bread or cracker. I love the spread as a filling for celery sticks or spread on carrot, turnip, or Persian cucumber slices.
You can take this spread in a different direction by replacing the onions, garlic, and salt with cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract, and a smidgeon of maple syrup to create a sweet spread or filling for baked goods. You can even stuff it into dates and top with a walnut half or a slice of Spanish olive. No doubt, creative cooks will find tons of other reasons to lick this savory-sweet chestnut butter off their fingers.
The chestnut butter is a good keeper and retains its flavor for up to 5 days in the refrigerator.
For directions on cooking and peeling chestnuts, scroll down to the previous post and you'll find step-by-step photos and directions. You can even skip the cooking and peeling by buying cooked and peeled chestnuts in jars or vacuum sealed packages during this holiday season.
Garlicky Chestnut Butter
Yield: 1 cup
1/3 cup chopped onions
2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
1/8 teaspoon dried thyme
1 cup cooked and peeled coarsely chopped chestnuts
3 tablespoons water
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 small sprig parsley
1. Combine the onions, garlic, olive oil, and thyme in a skillet and cook and stir over medium-high heat for about 3 to 5 minutes or until the onions are softened. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons of water if needed to prevent burning. Add the chestnuts and cook and stir for 1 to 2 minutes longer.
2. Transfer the mixture to the food processor, add the water and salt, and process until smooth and creamy. Spoon the Garlicky Chestnut Butter into an attractive serving bowl, garnish with the parsley, and provide a spreading knife.
If you love garlic, you'll go nuts over this quick-to-assemble spread. Please do let me know if you come up with interesting ways to enjoy it, and I'll gladly share your suggestions on this blog.– Zel


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- Prayer and Worship
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1A song of ascents.
Viciously have they attacked me from my youth,
let Israel say now.a
2Viciously have they attacked me from my youth,b
yet they have not prevailed against me.
3Upon my back the plowers plowed,
as they traced their long furrows.c
4But the just LORD cut me free
from the ropes of the wicked.*
5May they recoil in disgrace,
all who hate Zion.
6May they be like grass on the rooftops*
withered in early growth,d
7Never to fill the reaper's hands,
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8And with none passing by to call out:
"The blessing of the LORD be upon you!*
We bless you in the name of the LORD!"e
* [Psalm 129] A Psalm giving thanks for God's many rescues of Israel over the long course of their history (Ps 129:1–4); the people pray that their oppressors never know the joy of harvest (Ps 129:5–8).
* [129:4] The ropes of the wicked: usually understood as the rope for yoking animals to the plow. If it is severed, the plowing (cf. Ps 129:3) comes to a halt.
* [129:6] Like grass on the rooftops: after the spring rains, grass would sprout from the coat of mud with which the flat roofs of simple houses were covered, but when the dry summer began there was no moisture in the thin roof-covering to sustain the grass.
* [129:8] The blessing of the LORD be upon you: harvesters greeted one another with such blessings, cf. Ru 2:4.
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Childless Japanese couples look for bargains in Asia
In January, Diet member Seiko Noda gave birth to a baby boy after years of medical treatments to help her become pregnant. The baby was the product of a third-party ovum that was acquired in the United States, fertilized with her partner's sperm and then implanted in her uterus. Though the media initially reported the delivery as being problem-free and both mother and child coming through with flying colors, since then other reports have revealed that the boy is still in the hospital with serious health problems. The egg donor is said to be a young woman, but Noda is 50 and the older the mother is the higher the probability that there will be complications during gestation.
Noda could have reduced the chances of complications if she had opted to use a surrogate mother, but in that case the Japanese authorities would not have recognized the child as hers, which was a very important consideration for her. Nevertheless, surrogacy is becoming an increasingly popular alternative for Japanese couples who cannot conceive on their own and are not partial to adopting (which is almost all of them, since adoption of infants is, for reasons both cultural and legal, not as popular in Japan as it is in the West).
The problem is that there is no Japanese law regulating surrogacy, and the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology disapproves of the therapy in principle. At least one doctor has bucked the society, however, and offers therapy to women who can't have children on their own, but reportedly the surrogate mothers he uses have to be related to the patients. The principal recourse for Japanese women who want to use this method is America, where it costs anywhere from $20,000 to $120,000 depending on what the surrogate mother requests for her nine months of service.


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Have you heard of Raynaud's?
Raynaud's phenomenon occurs when certain body parts, such as the fingers and toes, are exposed to cold. (Stress can sometimes be a trigger too). The artery in that body part will constrict abnormally (vasospasm), cutting off the blood flow.
Once the affected digit is rewarmed, it often turns reddish in color as the blood flow returns.
When there is no obvious cause to Raynauds, it's called Primary Raynaud's disease.
When there is another disease causing it, it is called Secondary Raynaud's phenomenon.
Here are some common causes:
- Scleroderma*
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosis*
- Rheumatoid Arthritis*
- Sjogren's Syndrome*
- Buerger's Disease
- Atherosclerosis
- Vibration induced (Jackhammer's disease)
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Cancer
- Hypothyroidism
- Multiple Sclerosis.
Believe me, there are a lot more of these!
Immediate rewarming is the first treatment. There are several types of medication that can be used as to prevent the episodes, such as calcium channel blockers or other vasodilators to keep the arteries from constricting. Other methods, such as using prostaglandins or blocking the nerves that lead to vasospasm, can also be used in severe cases.
I'm pretty sure I have primary Raynaud's affecting my left second toe. It's become a Nebraskan thermometer. As soon as it hits about 10 degrees, my toe tell me by going paper-white.
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Classroom Management: More Than a Bag of Tricks
Cindy, a well-educated and highly qualified recent graduate pursuing a 4th grade teaching position, has a ready response for the principal's interview question, "How do you plan to manage your classroom?" She confidently replies, "I plan to develop a system where students will earn points for good behavior during the week and receive tickets to enter a raffle for prizes at the end of the week."
Across the country this spring, thousands of graduates from hundreds of teacher-education programs will enthusiastically prepare for the job search in hopes of landing a teaching position for September in a difficult market. And like Cindy, they'll be asked a question or two about classroom management during their interviews. Many prospective teachers will respond with answers similar to hers, expressing a plan that uses an extrinsic-reward based system.
This plan, while not uncommon, unfortunately conveys a narrow view of classroom management. With her answer, Cindy implies that she equates effective classroom management with bribing students to behave appropriately. However, students deserve to be held to a higher behavioral expectation than bribery confers. After all, don't we want students to develop into independent, critical thinkers who are capable of self-regulating their own behavior? How will that be possible if they are continuously bribed to behave or participate in academic activities?
Teacher-Prep Problem
However inadequate her answer may be, Cindy's lack of understanding about effective classroom management is not her fault. Her response is indicative of a larger issue—the lack of training in classroom management in teacher education programs. Despite the importance of effective classroom management, the majority of teacher-preparation programs still do not require or even offer a course with an explicit focus on this topic, according to the Handbook of Classroom Management. As a result, beginning teachers continuously cite classroom management as their No. 1 concern. In fact, according to researchers Richard Ingersoll and Thomas M. Smith, 40 percent of beginning teachers leave the profession within the first five years, and concerns about student discipline problems are second only to poor salary as the reasons cited for their dissatisfaction with teaching.
Considering these statistics, it's critical to examine the reasons for the lack of training in classroom management. One of the primary reasons is that many educators often think of classroom management as no more than "a bag of tricks." A quick search for the term classroom management on the rapidly growing Pinterest, a virtual pinboard-style social photo sharing website that's popular with teachers, provides evidence of this mentality. The majority of pins, as they are called, related to classroom management are of "bag of trick" type techniques or "cutesy," extrinsic-reward based systems. For example, a popular image is an empty Windex bottle that has been decorated and labeled with the phrase "quiet spray," implying that a teacher can spritz her class and magically they will all quiet down. There are also numerous images of school stores that represent systems where students earn play money for exhibiting appropriate behavior (and possibly pay fines for misbehavior) and purchase various prizes. These images perpetuate a limited and faulty mindset about classroom management.
Another reason for the lack of training in classroom management is the common belief that classroom management can't be taught. Rather, many believe, management is something that you just have to learn through experience. That is simply not the case. In the Handbook of Classroom Management, teacher educator and researcher Jere Brophy states, "Classroom management can be counted among the major success stories of educational research in the 20th century." As a result, we now have a set of well-established research-based principles and strategies used by effective classroom managers that can be taught, observed, and emulated.
Prevention Is Key
In order to place highly effective teachers in every classroom across the country, it is essential that we address this issue and help teachers develop an understanding of classroom management. So, if classroom management is not a "bag of tricks," what is it? According to Carol Weinstein, author of Elementary Classroom Management: Lessons from Research and Practice, classroom management includes all the actions teachers take to develop an environment conducive to social, emotional, and academic learning. These actions include: 1) organizing the physical environment; 2) creating rules and routines; 3) establishing caring relationships; 4) planning and implementing engaging instruction; and 5) addressing discipline issues.
Effective classroom managers spend time planning and implementing specific strategies to address each of these key areas. For example, research conducted by teacher-educators Edmund T. Emmer, Carolyn M. Evertson, and Linda M. Anderson demonstrate the importance of spending time during the first three weeks of school teaching and demonstrating the classroom rules and routines so that expectations about student behavior are clearly communicated. In addition, effective managers spend time developing relationships with students by getting to know their academic strengths and weaknesses, learning about students' interests outside of school, holding high expectations for students, sending positive notes or emails home to students' parents to make them aware of their accomplishments, etc. These tasks require thoughtful and purposeful planning rather than a quick "bag of tricks" approach.
Central to developing and implementing an effective classroom management plan is the understanding that the majority of these actions are ones teachers take to prevent behavior problems from occurring. In other words, if teachers proactively address each of the key areas of classroom managment, they will actually minimize the amount of misbehavior that occurs. The idea that prevention is key to classroom management is not new. Jacob Kounin conducted classic research on this in 1970 and Emmer, Evertson, and Anderson did so in 1980. Yet, it is fascinating that these classic, powerful research findings are still overshadowed by this misguided "bag of tricks" mentality. In truth, if teachers are knowledgeable and develop a repertoire of research-based, effective strategies in each key area, they will prevent misbehavior and, ultimately, find little need to develop a "bag of tricks" or use an extrinsic-reward system.
The bottom line is that effective classroom management sets the stage for learning. Without an orderly environment, classrooms are disorganized, chaotic, and not conducive to effective instruction. Therefore, it is imperative that educators combat this "bag of tricks" mentality and develop a thorough understanding of the process of classroom management. Only then will we have accomplished the real first step toward placing a highly effective teacher in every classroom.
A different version of this piece originally appeared in The NJEA Review. It is reprinted here with permission.
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By a ratio of 71 percent to 29 percent, respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll support a plan that would allow State University of New York campuses to increase tuition up to 5 percent annually for five years. SUNY's research universities in Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook could raise their tuition by as much as 8 percent annually.
SUNY's in-state undergraduate tuition—currently $4,970 a year—is one of the lowest among public colleges and universities nationwide. The plan introduced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week includes expanded assistance to lower-income students.
Over the past two decades, SUNY has seen periods of no change in tuition followed by large increases, which have averaged out to an annual increase of 6.7 percent, the governor said.
"This bill brings rationality to the SUNY tuition system," he said, "by allowing students and parents to reasonably plan for college expenses, instead of being subject to dramatic tuition increases and uncertainty."
SUNY officials and the SUNY Student Assembly support the plan.
Roughly 550 readers participated in this week's poll, which was conducted June 13 and 14.
Do you support or oppose Gov. Andrew Cuomo's five-year SUNY tuition hike plan?
Support: 71%
Oppose: 29%
Here are some comments from readers:
Can we wait until next year? My kid graduates next May.
—Bill Lanigan
The whole idea of public colleges is to make education accessible to all New Yorkers. They were never meant to be major research universities; the country has plenty of those already. SUNY should return to its roots by hiring professors who teach instead of writing articles for academic journals no one reads. You could avoid tuition hikes all together if the SUNY faculty spent more time in the classroom. The SUNY system is yet another example of a public program run amok, losing sight of its purpose of serving the public.
—Bob Sarbane
Cuomo supports a "progressive education tax" in this proposal but resists any similar approach to New York State's wealthiest. Why is he so popular again?
—Tom Gillett, NYSUT
I oppose it only because we are in an economic struggle; people do not have jobs, but prices continue to increase on almost everything we buy for day-to-day use. How are people going to afford sending their kids to college with these increases when they cannot afford it now?
—Joseph Blank, StormFrog Inc.
SUNY is one of the lowest-priced yet highest-quality state education systems in the country. As we teach our young people about the "value" of a college education, that "value" also includes cost of attendance. Experience has shown there are numerous resources available to those who have the drive and aptitude to succeed in college, yet may lack the funds. Just as a car owner would likely take more care and prudence with a BMW than with a Chevy Nova, hopefully our college students will appreciate the time and money invested in a college education and strive to maximize their return by succeeding in and after college.
—David McIntyre
I have been paying taxes in this state since I started working at age 16. Now I have two going into college and one on deck. It irks me to think that by the time my third is in college, the tuition will likely be 25 percent higher. I may have had a different opinion here if the timing was different, but I think the problem is on the spending side and not the income side.
—David Fiegel, Blackbird Asset Services LLC
The governor is doing what needs to be done to close our irresponsible deficits. However, SUNY should be looking for ways to economize—like higher course loads per instructor, more rational retirement benefits and testing opportunities to deliver some courses electronically.
—Bob Worden, Penn Yan
Well done, Mr. Cuomo. When the average private school is charging $30,000 (and even at that rate they are receiving government subsidies), it isn't hard to figure out that the average taxpayer is throwing in a healthy chunk of change to send other people's kids to SUNY schools.
—Devon Michaels, Chili
The short answer is that I support any plan that keeps our SUNY system providing our New York State residents with excellent higher education. However, the longer answer is that I also support a plan that provides audit/watchdog oversight to our SUNY system. I support tuition costs that are spent smartly. By the way, other than the governor stating that this tuition hike is so our students can budget education costs better, has he told the taxpayers and the students why a hike is needed and made a case for higher costs within the SUNY system?
—Jay Birnbaum
At this point in time, I say any SUNY increases in costs should be covered by an equal decrease in welfare benefits. Same pool of money, different use of it. Any other government deficits should be handled the same way—any shortfall should be made up by drawing the money from the welfare budget. Do you think any politician has given serious consideration to what's going to happen as we keep incurring a 50 percent high school dropout rate year after year? Aren't jobs tight enough already? How are these people going to contribute to society? If they can't even "survive" high school, how the heck are they going to hold a job? Raise a family—because you know they'll have kids. And so on and so on. The time is now to break the cycle. To promote high school graduation rates and increase eligibility for the SUNY system, tie welfare benefits to graduation rates. High school students who are truant, flunking, disruptive or on drugs cause parents on welfare to be denied benefits. Wow, there's a thought! I bet you wouldn't need a "program" to teach parenting then! Stop blaming the education system and realize that the education process begins in the home. Then implement a five-year program to eliminate welfare altogether by reducing benefits 20 percent a year until it's gone. Include all social programs that do not directly serve the taxpayers paying into the system. The first step should be to drug test all recipients of government money. From welfare recipients to government employees. Any evidence of drug use means immediate denial of money and benefits for welfare recipients and immediate firing of government employees, forfeiting all seniority and benefits, including retirement. No bargaining allowed. Period. Get "help" on your own. People who are stuck in the welfare system as a lifestyle will either move or find jobs. That simple! NYS will become the "Empire State" again—overnight! Crime will go down, education will improve, money for government employment and pensions will miraculously appear. There will be enough money for police (and less need for them), fire, medical services and infrastructure. SUNY could be free! Deport the illegals and discover another cash cow. It isn't that there is not enough money… it is what we're doing with the money. So, drug test, eliminate welfare, deport illegals, and SUNY could be free. No increase in tuition! Why do our politicians feel compelled to penalize workers and achievers? Wouldn't you agree that the people that are the source of the money, the taxpayer, should get to dictate how it is spent? Why do politicians allow the people that don't pay taxes (or their wages and that of their staff) determine how any tax money is spent? Is this equation upside down, or is it me? As a taxpayer, if you were given the opportunity to determine if your dollars provide welfare benefits or SUNY tuition, which would you choose? Quit being the "silent majority" and get involved! It is your money.
—Frank Farquare
How can we support or oppose this without having the facts in front of us? Does the SUNY system have a surplus? If yes, I do not support any increase.
—Ron Borden
If it's true that out-of-state students can attend at the same rate or a very low rate, then this should be adjusted upward as well as incrementally increased. Is it true that any out-of-state premium goes into the state's general funds? It should go to offset in-state tuition.
—R. Polhemus, Mendon
Its time has come.
—Jim Duke, Victor
As with many of your Snap Polls, my response is not as simple as "Support" or "Oppose." I support Gov. Cuomo's five-year tuition hike plan ONLY IF he does something to make the interest rates on student loans more reasonable. Our priorities are misplaced when student loan interest rates are higher than home equity loan rates. If Gov. Cuomo thinks "we can reasonably plan for college expenses, instead of being subject to dramatic tuition increases and uncertainty," apparently he doesn't count those families that have been financially affected by the recent recession.
—Larry Maggio, CPIM CSCP
I feel that the tuition increases for college are far preferable to further cuts in education for grades 1 through 12. Our society continues to place college in the "optional" class, although we all know that without it our kids are behind the economic curve. I believe that Gov. Cuomo is on the right track, having the increases programmed into the budget over five years as parents can, in fact, plan more efficiently. However, I also think that there should be a state-sponsored savings plan like an educational 401(k) that would allow at least part of the tuition to be saved (and spent) tax-free. I realize that may seem contradictory, but we have to make every effort to support higher education. Otherwise, we'll only get further behind.
—Rick Bradley
I support this even though I am a SUNY Empire State College student at the moment. I feel my college in the SUNY system will not raise tuition much since it is an online school and costs have not risen. However, since the larger schools with more overhead are going to be eating up more of the dollars from the state, they definitely need to raise their rates so as they don't take more of the pie from my school. The biggest thing SUNY needs to do is charge much more for out-of-state students. They do not charge nearly enough for people who come to New York to use SUNY schools. In fact, due to SUNY's great reputation and cheaper costs than other state schools, it drives massive people to come to our schools. This competition pushes residents out of the spots for schools that we pay taxes for. Residents should have first choice, and if there are spots leftover, out-of-state people can then join and pay more than double what we pay.
—Eric Cornwell, Weco Manufacturing
The real question should be: "Why does the Legislature have anything to do with tuition at the SUNY System?" Don't ever forget the power of the purse carries with it the power to control.
—John Biemiller
I support a SUNY tuition increase for out of state students only. Why should NYS continue to subsidize these folks?
—Mike Moser, president, MyFleetDept.com
Educating our population is THE most important way out of our economic woes. The Talent Dividend research by CEOs for Cities finds, "Increasing educational attainment, measured by raising the four-year college attainment rate by one percentage point in each of the 51 largest metropolitan areas, would be associated with an increase in per capita income of $124 billion per year for the nation." Raising tuition and fees cuts the options for more and more of our young people, particularly the middle class. Programs exist for lower-income residents, it is the group in the middle who cannot afford college.
—Lisa Dahl
I support this initiative from a "different perspective." I do not think anyone can disagree that SUNY costs are going up and so must tuition. I trust that SUNY will keep their "mission" in mind, to provide a high-quality education at a reasonable cost. My main rationale is that it should not take an act of the legislature and governor to allow SUNY to make realistic cost adjustments. The legislature and governor have other things to do and we can see that they do not get done as much as they should. SUNY tuition should not be subject to the "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" approach to governing that seems to pervade our state. If SUNY costs get too far out of line then, the legislature/governor can get involved to make a correction. But let's leave the regular operation of SUNY to SUNY.
—Jim Baker, Honeoye Falls
This will allow for growth of SUNY and for planned expenses for families, instead of desperate raises done haphazardly.
—Ted Marks
Increased tuition will increase the growing divide between the wealthy and the poor. If I had known that New York State would become a third world country I never would have moved here. As it is, I'm ready to move out.
—Cecile Lawrence, Ph.D., ARTCALIGHT
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Have you guys heard of these browned butter brownies before? I hadn't. I only recently found out there was such a brownie when I was searching the web for alternative brownie recipes and landed on Bon Appetite's website. This recipe is from last year's February issue (yeah, I know I'm really late). I don't quite like the bitterness from unsweetened dark chocolate and was looking high and low for alternative brownie recipes. After perusing many brownie recipes I found this recipe for browned butter brownies. These are made of cocoa powder and the browned butter gives these a nutty, chewy and toffee-like flavour as opposed to the regular smooth, fudge-like brownies. The raving reviews it received from, seemingly everyone who had tried them, piqued my interest. Naturally, I wanted to try this sensational recipe and find out for myself whether these brownies are all that good as they were made out to be.
140 g butter
1 1/4 cup caster sugar
3/4 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp espresso powder
2 tsp water
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1/3 cup + 1 tbs all-purpose flour
1 cup walnuts (or chocolate chips)
Measure up the sugar, cocoa powder, water and vanilla extract and keep all of them within reach. Line a baking pan with parchment paper on the bottom and sides. Light butter it. Cut the butter required to make the brownies, into 1 inch pieces. In a medium cooking pot, melt the butter at medium heat. Continue to cook and stir the butter for about 5-6 more minutes until the butter stops foaming and white particles sink to the bottom and then bubbles will appear on top and the butter appears a nutty brown. Remove from the stove and immediately add the sugar, cocoa powder, water and the vanilla extract. Stir until well blended. Allow the mixture to cool for 5 minutes while stirring.
Then add the eggs, one at a time while the mixture is still somewhat warm, and whisk to blend after each addition. When the mixture looks thick and shiny, sieve and stir in the flour. Lastly, add the walnuts (or chocolate chips should you prefer that). I chopped the walnuts into halves and dry-roasted them a day ahead. Spoon in the brownie batter in the buttered baking pan. Bake the brownies in a preheated oven, in the bottom third at 175 C (350 F) for 30-35 minutes. Insert a skewer in the center to check whether it is ready. The skewer should come out almost clean. Take it out and allow to cool in the baking pan before cutting. But as impatient as I am, I cut them while still warm and soft, and as a result they crumbled while cutting. These are best served with a tall glass of cold milk!


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September 4, 2005
G135: Red Sox 5, Orioles 1
The half-inning took 21 minutes, and perhaps David Wells lost his rhythm. He had allowed five hits, but only two batters had reached second base. Melvin Mora and Miguel Tejada both doubled to start the Baltimore sixth. After that, Wells retired the last 12 Orioles, mixing in a lot of curveballs, allowing only two balls to leave the infield. The Fat Man finished with a complete game (8-7-1-0-4) on 114 pitches.
Wells's complete game and Matt Clement's eight innings last night gave the bullpen a much-needed rest before the team plays the Angels and Yankees over the next week.
With his one inning of work on Saturday, Mike Timlin became the first Red Sox pitcher to appear in at least 70 games for three straight seasons. The club record is 80, set by Greg Harris in 1993. Timlin: "I have arthritis in my elbow just like 90 percent of the pitchers in the major leagues, but I get past it."
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For all you Buck fans out there: today in the 9th he announced that David Wells was going for his first complete game shutout in a very long time. The score at that moment was Sox 5, O's 1.
Back in Curt Gowdy's day, the Sox on WHDH had a third-stringer named Art Gleeson who used to say things like this, but I'm pretty sure he was senile at the time.
A hack named Tom Mars who did radio for the Orioles used to do this stuff too. He once combined Sammy Stewart and Storm Davis and almost made me drive off the road by announcing that "Sammy Davis is coming in to pitch!!" My favorite of his was the tidbit that "Like most left-handers, Dennis Eckersley has a good move to first." Of course, Eck was right-handed and had no move to first at all. He would regularly have the wrong pitcher for a full inning or more, but Chuck Thompson was too busy thinking about saying: "Ain't the beer cold!" and talking about the Sox playing "Wallball" to notice. Until Jom Miller hit Baltimore, O's announcers were the worst homers and the most inept reporters I've ever heard, Hawk included.
I can live with Don Orsino.
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OAKLAND — In the latest twist in BART's tortured labor negotiations, the transit agency's directors on Thursday risked another strike by rejecting a costly paid family leave provision that they say was mistakenly included in the final contract. Union leaders slammed the move but were mum on whether they would walk off the job for the third time since July.
The BART Board of Directors voted 8-1 to accept the contract only if the unions vote to approve a revised package without the family leave perk.
No deal, countered leaders with the Amalgamated Transit and Service Employees International unions, whose members already approved the contract with the leave. They don't buy the "mistake" argument and called the board's vote illegal.
"Our members didn't have the opportunity to pick and choose what parts of the contract they liked and what they didn't like," ATU President Antonette Bryant said.
The unions aren't yet saying how they will challenge BART and what that means for the 200,000 people who ride its trains every day.
Employees have been working under the terms of the old contract since it expired June 30. But with no labor agreement, they could walk off the job for a third time. Others suggest the unions could take BART to court.
"We will be discussing the options with our attorney, and we will be in discussions with our members," said SEIU Chief Negotiator Josie Mooney after the board's decision. "How we proceed will be made public once we have had some time to consider what options are available."
Public agencies hardly ever reject contracts agreed to by their own negotiators — in whole or part — after union members have ratified them.
But BART officials said the agency simply couldn't afford to live with this mistake.
The transit system estimates the paid leave provision would cost it between $5.8 million and $44.2 million over the four years of the contract, depending on how many workers take it. The lower figure is based on the number of people who took the unpaid version last year, while the higher is if a third of the staff signed up.
Even at the bottom of the range, the dollars would mean a substantial hike in what BART put on the table in the new contract. The agency puts the cost in increased compensation of the overall contract — without the family leave clause — at $67 million.
BART board Vice President Joel Keller, of Antioch, led the move to seek a contract without the offending provision, and seven of his eight colleagues ultimately voted with him.
If he becomes board chairman in December, as expected, he said he will also appoint a board subcommittee to investigate the agency's labor negotiations process.
Neither side got everything it wanted, but the bulk of the deal "is affordable, sustainable and fair," Keller said. "We ended on a sloppy note, and that is regrettable. This turmoil could and should have been avoided."
Only BART Director Zakhary Mallett dissented in the vote, saying the contract was too generous even without the family leave provision.
Before the board went into closed session shortly after 10 a.m. to discuss the contract, union members and others implored directors to ratify it with the leave provision.
"I implore you to live up to your agreement because you cannot imagine the difficulties you will experience … and the devastation (rejection) will have on morale and the relationship between management and employees going forward," said Larry Williams, who was BART's chief labor negotiator from 1977-1997. "If you don't ratify this agreement, you ain't seen nothing yet."
United Public Workers for Action founder Steve Zeltzer accused the BART board of union busting and predicted the contract rejection would spur public employees throughout the Bay Area and the state into action. That could include AC Transit, where management and unions are midway through a cooling-off period after threatening a strike.
"If you reject this contract, you are telling every other agency that they can do the same, have negotiators come up with a deal and then say, 'The hell with it, we don't have to follow it,'" Zeltzer told the board.
Both sides agree the unions put forward the family leave provision in the spring, but the stories quickly diverge.
The agency says its negotiators repeatedly rejected the idea, but later a temporary employee erroneously prepared a tentative agreement document in July titled "Section 4.8: Family medical leave."
Eight people — three from BART management and five from the unions — would later sign the document that BART contends was mistakenly included.
BART staffers say they discovered the "mistake" during a document review Nov. 4, three days after the union members ratified the contract.
The unions dispute BART's account and insist the agency agreed to the provision and knew it was part of the contract.
As written, it provides workers at no charge six weeks of full pay for approved leave for baby bonding or to care for a sick or injured family member in addition to their vacation and sick leave.
By comparison, participants in the state disability program receive up to 55 percent of their wages, or $1,067 per week, whichever is less, for six weeks. Most employers require workers to first use accrued vacation and sick leave, and workers pay premiums for the insurance through payroll deductions.
Contact Lisa Vorderbrueggen at 925-945-4773 and follow her at Twitter.com/lvorderbrueggen.
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Of the hundreds of pages in the proposed contract between BART and members of the Amalgamated Transit and Service Employee International unions, only the family leave provision is in dispute. Here are some of the $67 million deal's financial highlights:
Source: Bay Area News Group research
Here's how BART and its two unions describe the events that unfolded in the dispute over a family leave provision the agency says was mistakenly included in the partially approved labor contracts:
May 13 — Bargaining starts between BART and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 and Service Employees International Union Local 1021.
May 30 — Family leave provision discussed in negotiation session.
June 5 — Union offers to withdraw the family leave provision in exchange for approval of a larger package.
June 6 — BART says it rejected the union's family leave provision and the larger package. Union says the family leave provision was not withdrawn.
June 24 — BART says its chief negotiator, Thomas Hock, confirmed that the family leave provision was withdrawn. Unions dispute Hock's recollection. The unions file a lawsuit in Alameda Superior Court, alleging that BART was bargaining in bad faith and engaged in unfair labor practices.
July 1-4 — BART employees strike.
July 11-19 — BART says a temporary employee erroneously typed up the family leave provision under Hock's direction as an official tentative agreement — one of many that make up the contracts as a whole — and he signed it.
August 7 — BART and unions present their cases to the Governor's Board of Inquiry after the agency requested a 60-day cooling off period. BART says the family leave provision was not included. The unions say it was part of the package.
Aug. 10 — BART makes counter offer and says the family leave provision was not in the package. Unions say they "never relied" on the attachments as they "did not accurately reflect the status" of the talks.
Aug. 11-Oct. 12 — 60-day cooling off period.
Oct. 13 — BART makes a "last, best and final" offer and says the list of tentative agreements does not include the family leave provision. Unions say that may be true but, if so, the agency didn't inform them of their decision to withdraw the section.
Oct. 18-20 — BART employees strike.
Oct. 21 — BART and unions reach a deal. ATU sends email to its workers promoting 20 aspects of the deal but not what would be a new family leave provision.
Oct. 22-28 — BART and unions hold tentative agreement checkoff sessions and exchange correspondence.
Oct. 31 — BART provides the unions with a final set of tentative agreements, which includes the family leave provision section 4.8. It was signed by five union negotiators and three agency representatives, probably back in July. BART says its inclusion was an error. Unions say it was not.
Nov. 1 — Union members ratify the contracts, including the disputed family leave provision.
Nov. 4 — BART staff reviews the tentative agreement documents, discovers the family leave provision had been included and informs the unions of the error.
Nov. 7 — BART attorney Vicki Nuetzel advises two union lawyers that the district cannot ratify the contract. "Those who were present during bargaining cannot in good faith contend that the district agreed to this proposal, and it is troubling that you have chosen to take the positions that you have," Nuetzel wrote.
Nov. 14 — BART board votes 7-1 to send staff back into negotiations, but the unions refuse. The agency estimates the family leave provision could cost the agency over the four-year contract $5.6 million to $44 million depending on how many employees take it. The unions say the low figure is far more likely based on the number of workers that went on unpaid family leave in prior years.
Nov. 21 — BART board expected to officially reject the family leave provision and send the contracts back to the unions for a new vote.


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