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Jennifer Esposito is "sick" over CBS' decision to put her on medical leave from "Blue Bloods," after her doctor advised her to take on a lesser workload to help her cope with her Celiac disease.
After calling CBS "shameful" back in October in a Twitter tirade when the network announced Esposito would be taking a leave of absence from the cop drama, Esposito has popped up again, speaking out for the first time since the incident occurred.
Jennifer Esposito's Blue Bloods leave may be permanent after she slams "Shameful" CBS
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In an interview set to air tonight on Fox News' FOX Files, the actress says CBS kept her on contract and suspended her without pay, rather than accommodating her request to work fewer days a week due to her illness, according to TV Line.
"So many things of injustice that happen in this business. It's what you sign up for....This, though, is something that is not about me, I feel," Esposito tells FOX Files. "This is about a disease that people don't understand. And what went on [here], it makes me sick."
Esposito also describes an incident in which she collapsed on set twice. "The [assistant director] came in and said, 'I'll get the medic,' and we were like, 'There is nothing [the medic can do], unless he can cure me of Celiac disease. This is what we've been trying to tell you.' They had to carry me into the car and bring me to the doctor, where I [was] for seven hours."
"Look, they have a job that they need done. I get it," Esposito says during the interview. "You don't think I can do it in the two or three days that I am offering in that...work space of eight days? Then I get it, you have to replace me. But that's not what happened. What happened was ugliness."
The actress says CBS' suspension terms prevent her from seeking employment on another network TV show, but she is free to pursue film or stage work and appear on a cable series that doesn't air in the same time slot as "Blue Bloods."
While CBS hasn't commented recently about Esposito's claims, in a statement in October the network told E! News, "Jennifer has informed us that she is only available to work on a very limited part-time schedule. As a result, she's unable to perform the demands of her role and we regretfully had to put her character on a leave of absence. She is a wonderfully talented actress and we hope that she will be able to return at some point in the future."


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The second of four Summer Technology stories. Yesterday, we posted a piece by Hugh Gilmore on using a Kindle on vacation. Tomorrow, we'll feature a piece on cutting cable.
You've probably heard a lot about "cloud" computing lately and are left wondering. What is "the cloud" anyway? And why do I want to compute with it?"
Cloud is really just a new way of talking about computing that's been around at least as long as webmail. It's performing functions – computing – online instead of on your desktop. Files are stored on Google, Yahoo, AOL or Facebook's servers, not your hard drive.
In the last five years or so, as high speed Internet has become more and more available, cloud services have caught on like crazy. Two great examples are Netflix streaming video and Facebook.
This year, there's been a lot of movement on cloud music services that allow you to get a lot more out of your Internet connection than Pandora's random playlist. My two favorites are Spotify and Google Music.
So, I managed to grab an "exclusive" invite to Spotify two days after it launched this month. Those invites were so "exclusive" that music and tech blogs were posting links to what might best be described as mass invite engines.
What is Spotify? After Google music, which also launched this summer, Spotify is the most buzzed about music service since Pandora. It started in Europe, where it gained a ton of users, and had been gearing up for a U.S. launch for the better part of the last year.
Does it live up to the hype? I think so. I've never been a big Pandora fan. I've found it really hard to plug in an artist and not land on a song I really didn't want to hear within 15 minutes. I think I've been around for Pandora hitting that sweet spot for a good hour only two or three times. Generally, a good old-fashioned iTunes genius playlist is better. And the new Google Music instant playlist is even better than that.
But with those options, I don't get to hear music I don't have (even though I have a lot). Spotify solves that problem by giving even free accounts access to a huge library of music – some 15 million songs. And you can listen to whole, unabridged albums.
I started off by plugging in Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and listened to his latest Matador record "The Brutalist Bricks" in its entirety. Every so often, Spotify will queue up a 30-second commercial. I heard several pitches to buy Amos Lee records during my first day of testing the service.
Other benefits to Spotify include the fact that you can sync the service with Facebook, where you can find your Facebook friends who have the service in a little window on the right, look at their public playlists and even recommend artists and albums.
Now there are many services that you'll need to pay to unlock. The free account gives you an amazing access to music, but it's limited to 20 hours a month of listening. Going up to $4.99 a month gives you unlimited music streaming and no commercials, and $9.99 a month gives you the ability to download tracks to your computer, smartphone or iPod touch.
Some of those features are pretty compelling, but I think that even the free service, as a means of discovering and listening to new music, is pretty valuable, too. There's a "what's new" tab in the player window that gives you the most recent releases and singles.
So you won't be able to rock Spotify day and night with a free account, but you could definitely use it to preview music you're thinking of picking up to own.
I'm going to keep the free account for now. Twenty hours a month will probably be plenty for me to try out new music. Though I can see some pretty good arguments for the paid service. With the sync-to-phone option, it's conceivable that $9.99 a month is all you'd ever have to pay to listen to what you want to listen to again. It's pretty amazing, really.
Google Music
For anyone who doesn't know, Google Music is Google's entre into mp3 storage and playback, but it's all "in the cloud." In other words, it's entirely Web based. You upload your music to Google's servers and play it on anything that can browse the Web.
I got my official invite about two weeks after the service launched and uploaded my entire library, a trimmed-down 7,000 songs (just the necessities). The set up was quick and easy. The Mac OSX version adds a music manager application to the OSX system preferences. From there you point the music manager at the file in which you store your music, and it does the rest. Any time I add music to the folder, it's automatically uploaded to Google music in the background. I don't even see it happening.
The initial upload lasted approximately 36 hours, but now my entire mp3 collection is on Google's server. So why would you need this?
The benefit is simple. Anything that has a browser can access my whole collection, a collection that is much too large to be really portable. I can stream anything I want on any computer. If I had an Android device, I'd be able to stream and cache songs for offline listening. But the service also works on my iPad where I can stream music right through the iPad's mobile browser. The interface is a bit buggy – for example you have to play, pause and then play to get an album started. But it works. It's a real convenience to be able to stream my music to anything that can get online.
But Google Music also has a few other benefits. I've used iTunes since it came out, but Apple's great little music player has become a bloated do-everything syncing service that just does too much.
Google Music is simple to use. It has a great search bar to pull up artists and albums. It creates playlists as easily and automatically as iTunes does. In fact its instant mix might be better than Apple's. Also, managing important info and cover art for each album is easier than iTunes. It's a streamlined, easy and intuitive interface, something Google seems to do really well. And it's free.
In two weeks since my invite, I've been using the service nonstop. I prefer it to iTunes simply because I like the interface better.
The only caveat for anyone considering using Google Music is that you can upload your music, but you cannot download (at least not yet — this is beta software). So far it's worked without a hiccup. I can stream music in a browser with a dozen other tabs open, including gmail and Tweetdeck.
I've read other reviewers say they wish Google had a service to buy music. I bought an album on Amazon a week ago, and it not only downloaded to my music folder locally, but uploaded right away.
So far, Google Music is terrific. If you're tired of swapping song files from one device to another, Google Music is a great way to get around that. If I had to choose between an iPhone and an Android phone (I like Apple hardware and Goolge software) Google Music just might be the killer app that would decide the whole thing for me in Android's favor.
Parts of this piece originally appeared in Pete Mazzaccaro's music blog Liner Notes, linernotes1.blogspot.com

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Mr. Speaker, today we have the very special honour of having the presence in Ottawa of Western Samoa's High Commissioner to Canada, the permanent representative of Western Samoa to the United Nations, His Excellency, the distinguished Neroni Slade.
His Excellency has just returned from Haines Junction where he addressed federal, provincial and territorial ministers of the environment on the real threat climate change poses to the very existence of Western Samoa and other small island states.
Later this afternoon he will also speak at a joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development about this critical issue.
Hence it is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to welcome to Ottawa our distinguished guest on behalf of all members of this House.


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City won't enforce ban on amplified outdoor music, but limits on hours and decibel levels remain in effect
Live music enthusiasts, business advocates and an American Civil Liberties Union representative turned out at City Hall on Tuesday to ask — and in the case of the ACLU member, warn — commissioners to change the rules on outdoor amplified music.
The ACLU representative, Michael Barfield, told the city its zoning code, which bans any amplified music in restaurants' outdoor seating areas, is unconstitutional. The local ACLU chapter previously sued Sarasota for a noise ordinance regulating music in vehicles, claiming the measure impinged on First Amendment rights.
On Tuesday, Barfield asked commissioners to "to avoid litigation and to take a serious look at the constitutionality of those provisions in your code."
Commissioners responded by asking city staff to send out an email that evening prohibiting staff members from enforcing that part of the zoning code.
"He came down here and told us we had a problem," Commissioner Shannon Snyder said, encouraging the commission to act quickly. "I don't want to be writing another check."
The Department of Neighborhood and Development Services enforces the zoning code.
The commission's decision comes a week and a half after the department's general manager, Gretchen Schneider, sent a letter to more than 200 restaurant owners citing the zoning code and said no amplified music is allowed in their outdoor seating areas, like patios and rooftops.
Schneider said she decided to send out the letter after the city received numerous complaints about amplified music. Many people did not know about the rules and have called her with questions, she said.
Part of the confusion could be because the city's zoning code regulations for outdoor music at restaurants conflicts with Sarasota's noise ordinance, which allows the amplified music during certain hours and below certain decibel levels.
City police will continue to enforce the hours and decibel levels in the city ordinance.
Many restaurants and bars offer live outdoor music during the hours that the ordinance allows, including Eat Here Sarasota, where Twinkle Schaschle Ursula Yochim, whose stage name is simply "Twinkle," performs Wednesday through Saturday. She was among the artists who attended Tuesday's meeting.
"We're all so frustrated," Yochim said. "I have just realized that my financial survival is and always has been linked to this."
"This is our town, too," Yochim said. "And my family is four generations Sarasota, full-time residents, not transients. The musicians that have had to leave to find work are brilliant sons and daughters of this town. This is ridiculous."
Sarasota resident Suzette Jones, who works at a business consulting firm, told commissioners she is a "music lover" who believes it's time to move forward with changes that embrace the local music scene.
"I'm attending mostly to show support, to have a presence and show that people like me who live downtown want live music," Jones said before the meeting. "I think there's a vocal minority. The city government doesn't hear us because we're not the complainers."
The debate over how the city should regulate sound has popped up time and again over the years. The conversation often pits people pushing for louder and later entertainment downtown against residents seeking peace.
"Most of my clients won't come to Sarasota because it's so hard to do business," Jones said. "It's these old, old, rules that don't work in today's Sarasota."
Commissioner Paul Caragiulo also called the city zoning code rules for outdoor music outdated, and said he was surprised by Schneider's letter saying they would be enforced.
"The current way that it's written in the zoning code is not acceptable and needs to be changed," Caragiulo said. "Frankly, it's just yet another sort of example of a zoning code that's better suited as an artifact in an archaeology museum."
Caragiulo began holding community discussions on the noise ordinance in October, and said he was spurred to action by This Week in Sarasota writer and local activist Anthony Paull.
Paull was one of the people asking members of the local music scene to turn out Tuesday at the commission meeting to ask for change.
On March 4, Caragiulo will present a report of what he heard from the community to the other commissioners, and said he will ask them to begin the process of changing how the city regulates noise.
Staff Writer Wade Tatangelo contributed to this story.


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Over on TechCrunch, MG Siegler says his sources have indicated that the next iPhone will be available in a gold color – not gaudy over-the-top gold, but more of a champagne hue.
In other words: don't worry. You'll apparently still hear about $4,700 24-karat iPhones and maybe even another $15 million iPhone with a black diamond as the home button. It'd be a damn shame to live in a world where super opulent iPhones didn't exist, right?
No, this rumored gold-colored iPhone sounds like it'd be available to regular people. There's some question as to whether the next iPhone will come in an iPhone 5S version and a lower-cost iPhone 5C version, the "C" possibly denoting "color," with various hues available. Perhaps the gold color would be one of them. It doesn't sound like the black and white versions of the iPhone are going anywhere, either.
In any event, I've just written more about a rumored iPhone color than should be allowed. Thanks for reading. We'll supposedly get the real details on September 10, when Apple's expected to roll out the next iPhone.
Goldfinger: The Next iPhone [TechCrunch]


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I sat down with the producer/director/writer/star Gloria Kisel-Hollis to discuss her new film, The Brentwood Connection, which will debut at the Beverly Hills Film and Television Festival this Fall.
Hi Gloria, what is The Brentwood Connection about?
The Brentwood Connection is about two divorcee socialites who lose it all and then cleverly come up with a humorous social media business plan to hopefully get back to their accustomed lives of riches and romance. Fresh out of their pathetic divorce settlements,Lana (played by me) and her best friend Ella (Tina Hillstrom) come up with a unique business idea to jump start their miserable lives. They create a "fictitious" on-line dating website to provide matchmaking services for elite wealthy suitors but in reality it is for their own personal use hoping their next business decision leads them back to a life of love, success, and billions!
Where did the idea for The Brentwood Connection come from and what was your inspiration?
The idea of The Brentwood Connection came from my personal experiences and my close friend's life. I was inspired by seeing all these wonderful women I know trying to make it happen for themselves and not finding success on what they're trying to accomplish.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your experience in the film industry
Love and life inspire me. I always follow my intuition for everything. I have lived all over the world and have a beautiful and talented daughter, Farrah Karina. who I named after working on set with Farrah Fawcett. I have been married 3 times and I dedicated a large portion of my time to working with various humanitarian and philanthropic enterprises. For a long time I had my own show in Palm Beach call Palm Beach Now with Gloria Hollis. I love to direct and produce while occasionally acting. I have produced over 10 films and hope to continue doing so.
What do you hope viewers will learn from your film?
I want women, especially women who have never believed they can make things happen for themselves, to recognize that if you have the will to make things happen you can conquer the world.
Have you used a dating service yourself? And if so, would you recommend it?
I have never used a dating service before but I have many friends who have found success with it and they have really inspiring stories.
What advice would you give to women who are still looking for love, romance, or a relationship?
I think the main thing is to Always be yourself. Go out there and be real. You'll have a happy story to tell ever after.
What are your plans for this film? Are you looking to get it into distribution
I have big plans for The Brentwood Connection. I'm taking it to all the film festivals and will do a lot of promotion for it. I also hope on getting distribution or selling it as a television series.
Are there any other projects in the works right now?
Yes , I do have other projects in the works and I am definitely looking forward to getting the next one ready soon. It will be a romantic comedy based on life in the City of Angels.
Thank you Gloria for the enlightening interviewer! I know that I can't wait for the premiere of The Brentwood Connection.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police have made a second arrest in a case of aggravated child abuse of a 1-year-old girl brought to Wolfson Children's Hospital on Friday night.
Yuri Mito, 20, was arrested Monday on a charge of failing to seek prompt medical treatment for the girl.
Police said the girl appeared to have a rib fracture, internal bleeding, and external bruises on her stomach and back. The girl underwent surgery and remained at the hospital in stable condition. She was expected to make a full recovery.
Tommy Butler, 28, was charged on Friday night with aggravated child abuse causing great bodily harm, permanent disability or disfigurement.
"These children are incredibly fragile and something like this could have been much worse," said John Harrell of the Division of Children and Families earlier this week.
Detectives have continued to investigate injuries to the girl that caused doctors to notify child protection authorities. Police have not released her relationship to the child and the mother's name was redacted from the original incident report.
The mother took the girl to the hospital Friday night and told police her daughter started getting sick and throwing up on Thursday, so she took her to the hospital. She said she didn't know where the girl's bruises came from and said they may have happened while at the girl's father's house, according to a police report.
According to police report, the mother of the 1-year-old told investigators the girl had spent the previous weekend away from home with other relatives.
DCF believes Butler is the boyfriend of the girl's mother.
"Something that concerns us, in addition to the abuse, is that this man is the boyfriend of the mother of this child. And the stats show that 67 percent of child abuse cases nationally involve a perpetrator who is the boyfriend of the mother of the child," said Harrell.
Mito has been released on $20,000 bail. Butler remained jailed Thursday on $100,000 bail, according to jail records.


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The comprehensive national study, conducted online by Harris Interactive©, focused on homeowner attitudes to their overall homes, their roofs, windows, siding, doors, trim and garage doors. Importantly, the common denominator of severe weather damage will serve as the prime motivator to homeowners who expect to replace exterior features on their home. A key finding provides insight that color availability from manufacturers on different exterior features plays a role in what brand a homeowner will purchase when they are ready to purchase replacement products. The colors that homeowners' gravitate to are influenced by their own sense of style and how the colors they choose blend with their home's surroundings.
"Quite clearly these results show us that homeowners have their eye on the sky as well as on their homes," says Ray Rosewall, CEO and president of DaVinci Roofscapes. "Severe weather that results in damage to exterior products was cited as the primary reason for potential product replacement in the majority of product categories surveyed.
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Turkey Run '07
Daytona Beach, Florida
Our man on the scene in Florida, Joe Greeves, likes to spend his Thanksgiving holiday at the Daytona International Speedway attending the Turkey Run. The event gets a little over 5,000 cars and trucks to attend, and a whopping 100,000 spectators to enjoy them all. In his search for all kinds of vehicles, Joe always does a great job of bringing back the coolest customized classic trucks for us to feature.
We asked Joe to shoot everything in sight for us. If the cover lines didn't get it across, by now it should be pretty apparent we really meant it when we said this issue is packed with truck shows. We didn't say that every truck we are showcasing would be the coolest on the block, because one look and it's easy to see a few of these trucks are a little weird. That said, they still showcase a lot of pride and hard work, not to mention a possible source for you guys to get an idea or two that could be executed better.


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If you have young kids, it's important to find out whether there's any risk that they might be exposed to lead, especially if you live in an older home. Many toys and other products from outside the United States have also been found to contain lead.
Long-term exposure to lead, a naturally occurring metal used in everything from construction materials to batteries, can cause serious health problems, particularly in young kids. Lead is toxic to everyone, but unborn babies and young children are at greatest risk for health problems from lead poisoning — their smaller, growing bodies make them more susceptible to absorbing and retaining lead.
Each year in the United States, 310,000 1- to 5-year-old kids are found to have unsafe levels of lead in their blood, which can lead to a wide range of symptoms, from headaches and stomach pain to behavioral problems and anemia (not enough healthy red blood cells). Lead also can affect a child's developing brain.
The good news is that you can protect your family from lead poisoning. Talk to your doctor about potential lead sources in your house or anywhere your kids spend long periods of time, especially if they're younger than 3 years old.
And it's important for kids at risk of exposure to undergo blood tests for lead — many people with lead poisoning show only mild symptoms or even no symptoms at all.
Whether it's inhaled, swallowed, or, more rarely, absorbed through the skin (just by touching a product that contains lead), lead can act as a poison. Exposure to high lead levels in a short period of time is called acute toxicity. Exposure to small amounts of lead over a long period of time is called chronic toxicity.
Lead is particularly dangerous because once it gets into a person's system, it is distributed throughout the body just like helpful minerals such as iron, calcium, and zinc. And lead can cause harm wherever it lands in the body. In the bloodstream, for example, it can damage red blood cells and limit their ability to carry oxygen to the organs and tissues that need it, thus causing anemia.
Most lead ends up in the bone, where it causes even more problems. Lead can interfere with the production of blood cells and the absorption of calcium that bones need to grow healthy and strong. Calcium is essential for strong bones and teeth, muscle contraction, and nerve and blood vessel function.
Lead poisoning can lead to a variety of health problems in kids, including:
Most commonly, kids get lead poisoning from lead-based paint, which was used in many U.S. homes until the late 1970s, when the government banned the manufacture of paint containing lead.
That's why kids who live in older homes are at a greater risk for lead poisoning. Also at risk are those who immigrate to the United States or are adopted from a foreign country that doesn't regulate the use of lead. Children with a history of the disorder pica (persistent and compulsive cravings to eat non-food items, like dirt, paint chips, or clay) also are at risk for lead poisoning.
Lead is also found in other environmental areas, including:
Many kids with lead poisoning don't show any signs of being sick, so it's important to eliminate lead risks at home and to have young kids tested for lead exposure.
When kids do develop symptoms of lead poisoning, they usually appear as:
These symptoms also can indicate a wide variety of other illnesses, so if your child has any of them, talk to your doctor. A blood test may be necessary to look for lead poisoning or other health problems.
Treatment for lead poisoning varies depending on how much lead is in the blood. Small amounts often can be treated rather easily; the most important part of therapy is reduction of lead exposure. Gradually, as the body naturally eliminates the lead, the level of lead in the blood will fall.
Kids with severe cases and extremely high lead levels in their blood will be hospitalized to receive a medication called a chelating agent, which chemically binds with lead, making it weaker so the body can get rid of it naturally.
Calcium, iron, and vitamin C are important parts of a healthy diet and also help to decrease the way the body absorbs lead. Your doctor may recommend your child take supplements if there's not enough intake in his or her diet.
All siblings of a child found to have lead poisoning also should be tested. Doctors will report cases of lead poisoning to the public health department.
You can protect your kids from lead poisoning by ensuring that your home is lead-free — ask your local health department about having your home evaluated for lead sources. And have your kids tested for lead exposure, particularly if when they're between 6 months and 3 years old. Kids this age spend a lot of time on the floor and try to put things in their mouths.
These tips can help you reduce the risk of lead exposure:
If you suspect that you might have lead-based paint on your walls, use a wet cloth to wipe windowsills and walls. Watch out for water damage that can make paint peel. Don't sand or heat lead-based paint because doing so increases the risk that lead will be inhaled. If the paint doesn't have many chips, a new layer of paint, paneling, or drywall will probably reduce the risk. It's best to consult a professional, especially because other precautions might be needed to contain the lead in the paint.


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Food For Life Baking Company of Corona, California is voluntarily recalling 2,241 cases of Spelt Bread (UPC# 07347200168) because they contain spelt grain which is known to be a hybrid of wheat. People who have allergies to wheat or those with Celiac Disease may run the risk of a serious or life threatening allergic reaction if they consume spelt products.
The recalled products were sold nationwide through health food distributors and natural food retailers.
Food For Life Spelt Bread is sold frozen in a 24 oz. (680g) light blue package and bears either of the two following descriptions
Food For LIfe, Wheat Alternative Spelt Bread
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Affected lot numbers are: H1847, H2042, H2136, H2435, H2872, H2974, H3224, H3460, I0485.
No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem.
The recall was initiated as a precautionary measure following an FDA investigation concluding that the product contained undeclared wheat.
This recall is being made with the knowledge and in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration.
Consumers who have purchased any of these products are urged to return them unopened to the place of purchase for a refund.
Consumers with questions may contact us toll free at: (800) 797-5090.


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"And I believe we would be wise to reconsider the effectiveness and cost of a wall along our southern border, which has adversely affected the fragile environment and vibrant cross-border culture of an entire region. Such a wall stands as a symbol of fear and intolerance. This is not what America is about and we can do better." – Harry Reid on S.9 , a bill to get rid of the fence.
Yay? I know I'm supposed to be happy, but I'm not.
That may be because this is a consolation prize for anti-fence advocates vs. shooting the federal mandate for Real ID in the head and kicking it into the dirt hole it deserves. It would be much easier for them to draft another law than reel in the powers appointed to the DHS to override state-to-federal laws as written in the Real ID Act, especially directives pertaining to the border fence.
WHO IS DEALING WITH REAL ID IN WASHINGTON? To be continued…
While trying to wipe the incredulity out of my eyes, I can't say I'm surprised at the offering. Anti border fence advocates, like Raul Grijalva, had well thought out plans for removing ACTUAL problems rather than keeping them in place as a surface placeholder for hegemony. However, when I think of Reid's open border ideas the first obstacle for his agenda is to level the playing field – which would be to make sure the borders are not sealed off.
If the U.S. doesn't come up with something better than a 3rd world border fence ( not an American idea) it won't only makes us look bad, but it shoves us further down the totem pole on foreign affairs. How much lower can we afford to go? We can handle ourselves without a meathead fence – thank you very much.
Fine. Even for Texas and Arizona and border state constitutents who are not huge fans of Mexican amnesty, they will still find immense relief from the federal intrusion on their lands, emminent domain and the decimation of their property and it's values, not to mention money freed up from the government waste.
BUT.. the real tactic here is to drive the flock of environmental supporters who have opposed Real ID to boost this legislation and then recede from repealing the whole monster of Real ID. HEY!! I see what you are doing and you are not going to win.
Stop mocking our intellect.
Can you say 10th Amendment, Michelle Malkin? States rights live whether you like it or not.


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I have been reading about the dreadful shootings in an elementary school that has resulted in so many deaths.
I really don't know what to say that will not be said by many other people. But I wonder about what goes on in the dark recesses of someone's mind that can cause them to prepare so carefully and methodically to kill so many little children.


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PALM BAY, Fla. – A Palm Bay woman says her puppy "Petey" scared off two gunman and saved her life.
Barbara Boos, 62, said late Sunday night, two gunman stormed through her front door on Southeast Wildcat Avenue, pulled her by the hair and threw her to the floor.
"I started yelling. He was pulling my hair so hard," said Boos. "He said 'I'm going to kill you if you don't tell me. Give me your money. Where's your money?'"
Boos said her 8-month-old Jack Russell terrier, Petey, came to the rescue, running from the other side of the house.
"He was jumping up and down on that guy's face," said Boos. "I don't know if he was trying to bite his face."
Petey went for one of the crook's ankles, and just like that, the two gunmen ran away.
Palm Bay police said they are still searching for the suspects.
Boos said she did not get a good look at their faces, which were covered with masks. She described the intruders as about 6 feet tall, one skinny, and the other heavy.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 20, 2013) – Two returning veterans and three newcomers highlight the U.S. Men's National Team roster for the 2013 NORCECA Men's Continental Championship on Sept. 23-28 in Langley, B.C., Canada.
The biennial NORCECA (North America, Central America and Caribbean) Championship will qualify the victor for the FIVB Grand Champions Cup on Nov. 19-24 in Japan.
|Matt Anderson receives the Molten.
Information about event tickets and the live stream ($1.99 per day or $4.99 for all) is available at langleyeventscentre.com/continentalvolleyball.
Playing with the team for the first time since the 2012 Olympic Games in London will be outside hitters Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) and Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.), both of whom won gold medals at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
Competing with the National Team for the first time in their careers will be setter Micah Christenson (Honolulu), outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and middle blocker Futi Tavana (Kalaheo, Hawaii).
"I want to continue to look at other people," U.S. Men's Head Coach John Speraw (Los Angeles) said. "The general philosophy of this summer is that I want to look at a broad number of players and see where everyone fits."
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The other seven players on the roster all had significant playing time for the U.S. Men at the 2013 FIVB World League: outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.; 2012 Olympian), middle blockers David Lee (Alpine, Calif.; 2008 gold medalist and 2012 Olympian) and Max Holt (Cincinnati), opposites Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.), setter Kyle Caldwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) and libero Erik Shoji (Honolulu).
When he was announced as the U.S. Men's head coach in March, Speraw said his first season would be devoted to assembling the best team and developing a new culture and would not focus on wins and losses.
Yet it was hard for him not to be excited when the team won four 2013 World League matches in a row.
"We were successful in that we were doing better than we expected," he said. "But then we were disappointed when we came so close (to victory) in Poland, but we didn't win. Then in Brazil, we just didn't play well. I think those environments are really challenging for players that have never been in them."
The U.S. finished 12th at World League with a 4-6 record and goes into the NORCECA Championship tied with Cuba for the No. 5 ranking in the world.
Speraw is going into NORCECA with a hopeful but practical attitude.
"I hope to see us win and qualify for the Grand Champions Cup," he said. "Aside from that, I'd like to see us improve in a number of areas that weren't particularly strong during World League. This group has improved in those areas; but we've lacked competitive opportunities this summer. I want to get out there and compete and learn."
Following World League, the U.S. Men are ranked No. 5 in the world, and tied with Cuba, which finished 13th at World League and has won the last two NORCECA Championships. Canada had a good World League, winning its pool and upsetting Russia in the Final Round before finishing fifth. Canada's world ranking improved to No. 11.
Bahamas, Cuba and Puerto Rico are in Pool B. Pool C is composed of Canada, Guatemala and Mexico.
In Pool A, the U.S. Men will open with matches against St. Lucia (ranked No. 53 in the world) at 4 p.m. PT on Sept. 23 and Dominican Republic (ranked 41 in the world) at 8 p.m. PT on Sept. 24.
The U.S. Men last won the NORCECA Championship in 2007. They finished second to Cuba in 2009 and '11. Overall, the United States has won the Men's NORCECA Championship seven times since it was first held in 1969. Cuba, the only other team to have won, has 15 titles.
2013 U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team
NORCECA Men's Continental Championship
Sept. 23-28 in Langley, B.C., Canada
U.S. Roster for the NORCECA Men's Continental Championship
No. - Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 - Matt Anderson (OH, 6-9, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2 - Sean Rooney (OH, 6-10, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3 - Kyle Caldwell (S, 6-8, Newport Beach, Calif., UCLA)
4 - David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
8 - Reid Priddy (OH, 6-4, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 - Murphy Troy (Opp, 6-8, St. Louis, Mo., Southern California)
11 - Micah Christenson (S, 6-6, Honolulu, Southern California)
14 – Jeff Menzel (OH, 6-6, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
15 - Carson Clark (Opp, 6-6, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Irvine)
17 - Max Holt (MB, 6-10, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
21 - Futi Tavana (MB, 6-7, Kalaheo, Hawaii, BYU)
22 - Erik Shoji (L, 6-0, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
Head Coach: John Speraw (Los Angeles)
Team Manager: Anton Willert (Berlin, Germany)
Assistant Coach: Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Mike Wall (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Consultant Coach: Andrea Becker (Martinez, Calif.)
Consultant Coach: Charlie Sullivan (Springfield, Mass.)
Athletic trainer: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
NORCECA Men's Continental Championships Schedule
All times PT
Sept. 23
4 p.m.: United States vs. St. Lucia (Group A)
6 p.m.: Cuba vs. Bahamas (Group B)
8 p.m.: Canada vs. Guatemala (Group C)
Sept. 24
4 p.m.: Mexico vs. Guatemala (Group C)
6 p.m.: Cuba vs. Puerto Rico (Group B)
8 p.m.: United States vs. Dominican Republic (Group A)
Sept. 25
4 p.m.: Puerto Rico vs. Bahamas (Group B)
6 p.m.: Dominican Republic vs. St. Lucia (Group A)
8 p.m.: Canada vs. Mexico (Group C)
Sept. 26
9th-Place Final, 4 p.m.
Quarterfinals, 6 p.m.
Quarterfinals, 8 p.m.
Sept. 27
7th/8th-Place Final, 4 p.m.
Semifinals, 6 p.m.
Semifinals, 8 p.m.
Sept. 28
Fifth-Place Match, 4 p.m.
Bronze-Medal Match, 6 p.m.
Championship Finals, 8 p.m.
Past Champions
1969: Cuba (USA, third)
1971: Cuba (USA, second)
1975: Cuba (USA, third)
1977: Cuba (USA, fifth)
1979: Cuba (USA, fifth)
1981: Cuba (USA, second)
1987: Cuba (USA, second)
1989: Cuba (USA, third)
1991: Cuba (USA, second)
1993: Cuba (USA, second)
1995: Cuba (USA, second)
1997: Cuba (USA, second)
2001: Cuba (USA, second)
2009: Cuba (USA, second)
2011: Cuba (USA, second)


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Hope College to Host "Safe Halloween" on Saturday, Oct. 30 | Community Spirit
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A total of six residence halls will be open to young trick-or-treaters on Saturday, Oct. 30, from 6 to 7 p.m. Children 12 and under from the community are invited to visit and admission is free, although they are asked to wear a costume and must be accompanied by an adult.
To participate, children must obtain a special Hope identifier at an information tent during the event on the lawn in front of the DeWitt Center on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. If there is inclement weather, the location will be changed to inside the DeWitt Center in the first-floor lounge.
Trick-or-treating will take place in the following halls: Cook, Dykstra, Gilmore, Kollen, Phelps and Scott. Each individual hall will direct participants where to go to receive candy.
° Cook Hall is located on 10th Street between College and Columbia avenues.
° Dykstra Hall is located on Ninth Street at Columbia Avenue.
° Gilmore Hall is located on 10th Street and Columbia Avenue.
° Kollen Hall is located between 12th and 13th streets at Columbia Avenue.
° Phelps Hall is located on 10th Street at Columbia Avenue.
° Scott Hall is located on 13th Street between College and Columbia avenues.
Additional information, including a map showing the location of the information tent and the participating residence halls, is available online at www.hope.edu/halloween


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Videos | January 22, 2014
G-FOLD Diversion Test
JPL tested its G-FOLD landing system Sept. 20, 2013 at Mojave Air and Space Port, with UT Austin; Masten Space; and NASA's Flight Opportunities Program at NASA Dryden.
Transcript:G-FOLD Diversion Test
January 17, 2014
Sound: Unintelligible radio chatter.
Kyle Nyberg: As the Masten engineering team performs the final system checks on Xombie, JPL's new Fuel-Optimal Large Divert Guidance Algorithm, known as G-FOLD, is about to get its largest demonstration to date. With support from NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, this ground-breaking project enables JPL to validate robust landing technology. This Google Earth visualization is created from the actual trajectory data recorded by Xombie in flight. The trajectory may look simple, but this flight represented an unprecedented achievement in autonomous rocket technology. The half-mile translation across the desert was, in fact, a spontaneous landing diversion in which the rocket was commanded to abort its initial nearby landing spot during final approach, aggressively change direction and begin following a new trajectory that was first calculated only one second earlier. The G-FOLD computer calculated this new trajectory in mid-air in real time, choosing a new landing site in the distance and optimizing the path through the sky to burn the least amount of fuel possible. Although the engineering teams knew the intended landing diversion before launch, the vehicle's systems received the updated instructions mid-flight, with no advance warning. Once commanded to change direction, the system instantly throttled up the engine and aimed the vehicle hard over to meet the new objective. This flight was yet another expansion of Xombie's vehicle flight dynamics, reaching a maximum altitude of 1200 feet while flying out-of-plane with the landing pads, then traversing downrange nearly a half mile over the desert floor at more than 50 miles an hour before gently touching down within 9 inches of its target.
Sound: Rocket ignites.
Sound: Rocket flying.
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We are tired.
We're tired of gunfire that makes the streets feel like some lawless stretch of Somalia where warlords rule without fear.
We're tired of the random violence that turns pickup basketball games into bull runs that send mothers and daughters scrambling for their lives.
We're tired of the punks who, besides not being able to shoot straight, believe they have the right to avenge the tiniest of slights with weapons designed to take out an infantry.
We're tired of going to funerals for little girls and boys.
"This boy should be on the conscience of all of us," said the Rev. Al Sharpton as he eulogized a 4-year-old shooting victim last night in a crowded Harlem church.
Little Lloyd Morgan Jr. was shot and killed in a Bronx park July 22 after a wild gun battle broke out at a basketball tournament.
An angry Sharpton talked about the heartbroken mother, Shianne Norman, who shared fond memories of the little boy she called "Chris" who loved to eat pancakes for breakfast and doted on his dad.
"She was very gracious to us," Sharpton told mourners at the Mount Neboh Baptist Church on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. "She should have gotten up from here and cussed y'all out."
That's because, he said, we have learned to adapt to the violence that chokes the life out of our communities.
But we're tired now.
We're tired of toothless laws that make it as easy to buy guns as it is to get Juicy Fruit from a vending machine.
We're tired of do-nothing parents who know their children carry guns and run with gangs because they spend the drug money these punks bring home every night.
And we're tired of all the excuses, the economy, budget cuts, a lack of programs for young people.'
"Just because they bring the guns in here," Sharpton said, "you don't have to be dumb enough to pick them up and shoot each other."
Sharpton said he didn't want to speak at the funeral because he knew no words to comfort the family.
He tried his best with with a passage from the Book of Matthew, which quotes Jesus discussing the value of a child.
"Who so shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."
Now, that sounds like a plan.


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The Dumbest Kickstarters That Should've Never Existed
20 Seriously Dumb Kickstarters That Should Have Never Existed
There have been some truly innovative products funded on crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter. But not every project deserves to become a reality. The following 20 Kickstarter projects were so bad, they either didn't get any funding at all, or got enough funding through pity alone to become a reality.
Lionel Richie's Head
211 backers shelled out over $10,000 for this oversized Lionel Richie Head for a festival on the Isle of Wight in England.
Write Stupid Stuff In The Sky
This comedian thought it was a good idea to have people pitch in to have silly slogans written in the sky, such as "How do I land?" and "Clouds 4 EVA." Only 257 backers pitched in in the end, which actually was enough for this project to meet its goal.
Potato Salad
Potato salad? You got it. A giant potato salad. And it actually got funded in the end. He raised 55 grand, and organized a huge event for everybody to have a little bit of potato salad.


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Not-so-late night television got a dose of late night humor Monday when Stephen Colbert showed up on NBC's "Rock Center" to talk super PACs.
And afterward, he showed up on his own show on Comedy Central to give a little bit of background in the form of an outrageous new ad that the super PAC he's turned over to Jon Stewart is airing in South Carolina.
In that television ad, a faux attack on Mitt Romney, a deep voice intones:
"Mitt Romney says he's for corporations. But Mitt Romney has a secret: As head of Bain Capital, he bought companies, carved them up and got rid of what he couldn't use. If Mitt Romney really believes 'Corporations are people, my friend,' then Mitt Romney is a serial killer. He's Mitt the Ripper."
But the stunt didn't stop with a jokey fake attack ad. NBC's Ted Koppel sat down with Colbert for a "Rock Center" segment on the influence of super PAC money on the GOP primary, where Colbert explained just what he thinks his super PAC can get away with — and why.
"The system works, is what I'm saying," said Colbert.
"Why doesn't Ted Koppel have a super PAC?" he asked. "It is legal for you to have a super PAC and talk about it on the air, and the FEC won't do anything about it."
"It's funny until you think about it," said Koppel. "[Colbert] is proving how ridiculous this system has become."
Check out the interview with Colbert on "Rock Center" and the fake anti-Romney ad on "The Colbert Report" below.
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JAN. 23 UPDATE: Yamaha announced it will stream the concert free online, even for those without a piano. Visit http://eltonjohn125.usa.yamaha.com or http://www.eltonjohn.com during the event, which kicks off at 8 p.m. Pacific time on Friday Jan. 25. Elton John will perform around 10:25 p.m.. Also performing during the three-hour event will be Amy Grant, Chaka Khan, Dave Grusin, Earth, Wind & Fire, David Foster, Dave Koz, James Newton Howard, LEOGUN, Landon Pigg, Lucy Schwartz, Michael McDonald, Sarah McLachlan, Toto and Sinbad.
When Elton John comes to Anaheim this month, he won't just pound the keys on his flaming red custom Yamaha, he'll also be playing dozens of pianos spread across the globe, all at the same time.
No, the pop star hasn't been cloned. In an attempt to add some luster to the player piano, the Japanese piano maker Yamaha, with its U.S. base in Buena Park, will digitally link a fleet of its high-tech $20,000-plus Disklavier pianos on Jan. 25 so that audiences around the world can hear John play "live."
Whether the technology will do anything to change the diminished place pianos hold in modern life is unclear. Even so, the idea of broadcasting an artist's performance this way has stirred excitement in the music world.
"You're actually hearing a live instrument playing at its source, with the only unique factor being that the performer is 12,000 miles away," said Edward Bilous, director of the center for innovation in the arts at the Juilliard School in New York. "The Disklavier becomes one instrument that is (that) big."
Pianos that play without anyone in front of them have been around since the late 1800s and rose to prominence in the 1920s as one of the earliest and most popular ways of bringing recorded music into the home. Yamaha hopes its streaming concert technology could spark new interest in the instrument.
John's concert and its worldwide accompaniment are the near-final realization of a technology project brewing for 25 years. For decades, the big idea for Yamaha employees was to have an artist's performance in one location experienced by many listeners, not re-created by speakers but beamed over the air and reproduced with pinpoint accuracy by a musical instrument.
In Anaheim, when Elton John plays his "Nikita" red Yamaha Disklavier piano, phantom fingers will play similar Yamaha pianos in Japan, Korea, Russia, Canada and other locations around the world. He is performing at a private concert at the Hyperion Theater inside Disney's California Adventure as part of the National Association of Music Merchants annual show.
"It is wonderful in terms of how I feel," said Bill Brandom, a former senior technical manager at Yamaha who retired in 2011 after 31 years at the company. "I can see the dream came true."
Brandom still consults for the company and remembers employees imagining the potential of a phantom artist playing a Disklavier live. Yamaha introduced the brand of piano in 1987 in the United States; the instrument could play itself with hidden electromechanical solenoids (essentially magnets) playing the keys. He told sales staff to talk to dealers and customers about the concept of beaming a performance over the air.
Yamaha initially used floppy discs and then CDs to play recorded music before moving to the Internet about six years ago. For the past three years, the company has been working to sync up audio from singing and other instruments with video of a performance to round out a full entertainment experience.
The company demonstrated a multicontinent performance in March last year with three pianos in New York playing an abstract piece together. Only one player was on stage; the other two pianists in Orange County and Japan appeared on projection screens. In September singer Sarah McLachlan performed a concert playing a Disklavier at her studio in Canada that was broadcast to other pianos in the United States. The performance by Elton John, who has a longstanding endorsement deal with the musical instrument company, will be the first global broadcast of the technology.
The Internet, not air, ended up as the medium to convey the artist's music.
"The experience has been much more dramatic than I envisioned," Brandom said.
That's because when Brandom and his co-workers originally envisioned the endeavor, home stereos and TV systems weren't that advanced. But today's HD screens and surround-sound speaker systems can allow an entire concert to beam into a home in high fidelity – with the live piano rounding out the concert experience.
This technology "is the piano's ability to remain relevant in the 21st-century multimedia living room," said Jim Levesque, marketing manager at Yamaha.
Yamaha plans to launch the streaming concert technology this spring as part of the company's existing subscription radio service for about $200 a year or $20 a month.
The radio service allows owners of the pianos, which range from $20,000 to $170,000, to set them to specific stations of streaming piano music.
Other forms of entertainment born in the 20th century have left the instrument playing second string, but Yamaha hopes the technology provides new reasons for the piano to be in homes and schools.
"The obvious benefits for employing the Internet for musical performance art is for people who aren't in the same location to play together, and people who aren't in the location where the music is played can enjoy it," said Christopher Dobrian, a music professor at the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts who has worked on synchronizing performances over the Internet.
"It's very much more exciting to hear it come out of a real piano than to hear it come out of speakers."
The high-tech gadgetry might be too pricey for most, but it provides a new forum for the piano.
"The piano industry in the 20th century you might say has seen a steady decline," said Stephen Carver, senior piano technician at Juilliard. "It continues to hold an utter fascination for a small percentage of the population. … I think it's a durable thing in society."
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Sleepers. How you win your leagues. I love sleepers; it's my favorite part of any fantasy forecasting where you identify the diamonds in the rough. A big reason I love sleepers is they are the guys that can end up on a lot of your teams at a draft day value discounted where you know you can beat your draft to them.
So that takes me to DeMar DeRozan, a guy I wasn't going to write my first sleeper post on at first, but amidst my ranking at 67 in my Way Too Early Rankings, I decided to dig deeper and try to convince Razzballers why they should spend a higher price on DeRozan than other rankings would suggest:Please, blog, may I have some more?


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Reynolds hits 1 of 5 homers for Brewers in win
Milwaukee pitcher Peralta also homers in win
Mark Reynolds homered for the second straight day, one of five Milwaukee Brewers to connect in a 9-7 victory Wednesday over the Seattle Mariners, who got Robinson Cano back after a five-day absence.
Cano left the team late last week to attend to personal business in the Dominican Republic, and went 1 for 4 with two RBIs. Cano has a hit in nine of 10 spring training games and is batting .556.
Starting pitcher Wily Peralta hit a two-run drive and Logan Schafer, Khris Davis and Juan Francisco also hit solo shots for Milwaukee. Reynolds and Francisco hit theirs back-to-back in the fourth inning against Mariners starter Blake Beavan.
Beavan and Peralta had their struggles on the mound. Beavan allowed seven runs on eight hits in 5 2-3 innings, his longest and least effective outing of spring training. Peralta gave up five runs on eight hits in his fourth spring training start, working six innings.


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By the looks of things, you don't have a whole lot of surface area to cook—but the fact that the storage compartment below can hold around 100 pounds of ashes before cleaning is a big plus. There ialso a storage compartment for your utensils and the whole thing folds up into a lean box shape for additional space saving. And, most importantly, they also note that you can heat things up to 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit without reducing your home to a pile of smoldering rubble. No word on pricing unfortunately, but I wouldn't go trading in the Foreman just yet if you are on a budget. [Rocal via Appliancist via DVICE]


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Some of the biggest names in sport will be coming to Taunton later this month when Somerset County Cricket Club and Bath Rugby join forces to host a special Sportsman's Dinner.
The event will be held at The County Ground on Thursday February 21st and will see a number of this region's best loved stars entertaining attendees as part of an evening that will include a three course dinner, a question & answer session plus games and other entertainment.
The links between the two clubs go back as far as 1897 as this was the year that Somerset played a match against The Gentlemen of Philadelphia at the very first Bath Cricket Festival at The Recreation Ground.
The match ended in a draw but the tone was set for what would become a cornerstone of Somerset County Cricket Club's history. This strong association has endured for over 100 years and only two World Wars and the appalling summer weather of 2012 have prevented this annual partnership from taking place.
This latest venture is yet another example of these two great organisations working hand in hand to deliver a quality event. From the world of cricket, former England legend and current Somerset Captain Marcus Trescothick will be present as will Somerset mainstays James Hildreth and Arul Suppiah.
Former Bath, England and Lions player Danny Grewcock will also be taking part in the evening as will England internationals Dan Hipkiss and David Flatman.
This special evening will offer a genuine insight in to the worlds of these two very different clubs who are both steeped in history and linked by over 100 years of collaboration.


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Easy, elegant eggs.
This simple egg bake recipe flirts with being a souffle. She imagines herself in an Anais Nin novel, puffy and voluptuous, trembling on a sunlit, blossom strewn table, about to be devoured by a Henry Miller style character, an unknown writer, all bluster and Brooklyn guff, with a surprising, childlike glint to his laughter.
In a Kerouac novel she imagines herself liquid, a stream of golden beats syncopated in hot opposition to the heart's rhythm, strangely, vertigo defyingly more in tune with how the stars blink- on and off- cradling her humble, unassuming beginnings in feather injected hay, spinning cool and restless past the farmhouse windows lit yellow by a single lamp on the center of a wooden kitchen table strewn with cereal coupons and finger smudged newspaper and coffee cups stained not with lipstick but with infinite tiny cracks, scenting the air with morning that rushes into this author's highway memory like a distant train whistle crooning its tug toward reckless freedom, toward shed dreams and mockingbird awakenings that mimic the familiar just to confuse you, just to keep you anchored, just to clip you from flying in your own, crazy trajectory, your one chance at what might be possible.
Then again.
Maybe she's just an egg recipe.
With attitude.
Green Chile Egg Bake RecipeRecipe posted March 2012 by Karina Allrich.
These simple baked eggs puff like a fancy souffle. The round slice of gluten-free bread gets golden and crusty. We ate this for lunch. It would be a fabulous brunch for a family get-together. Serve with a fresh fruit salad.
Note- I've written this recipe per person- this recipe is for one 4-inch individual souffle dish. Multiply ingredients as needed.
Ingredients Per Person:
Extra virgin olive oil
2 whole roasted green chiles (canned, patted dry, is fine)
2 tablespoons soft cream cheese or vegan cream cheese
1 slice of Udi's Sandwich Bread or gluten-free bread slice
Butter or vegan buttery spread
2 organic free-range eggs
1/4 cup milk or non-dairy milk
Sea salt and pepper, to taste
Pinch chopped chives
Smoked paprika
Grated cheese or vegan shreds- optional
Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Rub olive oil inside each 10-ounce 4-inch porcelain souffle dish and set the dishes on a sturdy baking sheet.
If using canned green chiles, drain well and pat dry.
Cut two chiles in half and layer in the bottom of an oiled gratin dish.
Top the chiles with two tablespoons of soft cream cheese.
Using a round cookie cutter, slice a circle of Udi's bread. Butter both sides.
Place the bread slice on top of the cream cheese.
Beat the eggs with milk or non-dairy milk. Season with sea salt, ground pepper, and chopped chives.
Pour the egg mixture into the gratin dish. The bread will float.
Sprinkle the top with smoked paprika.
Option: Top with a tablespoon of shredded cheese or vegan cheese, if desired.
Drizzle with a teaspoon of olive oil.
Bake on an upper rack for 30 to 35 minutes until the eggs are firm, puffed and golden brown around the edges. A cake tester should not emerge wet- but may show melted cream cheese.
Serve immediately.
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Recipe Notes:This recipe is for a single serving. Multiply for two, four or six, as needed.
When making these for more than four people- I would not place more than four souffle dishes on a baking sheet. Use two baking sheets, and increase baking time, if necessary; rotating once for browning, if needed.
Use sturdy baking sheets- not flimsy ones. Be safe.
I made these dairy-free using organic non-GMO soy milk, vegan cream cheese, and Earth Balance. Delicious!
For dairy lovers- I used to make this recipe using butter, organic milk and cream cheese (or goat cheese). It's lovely.
Adding shredded cheese is optional. We thought these were quite tasty without, but I understand how some folks love their cheese.
Goat or feta cheese would be a tangy alternative to mild cream cheese.
These can be prepared ahead of time, if you wish. Keep refrigerated. You'll need to bake a bit longer if quite chilled. Keep an eye on them.


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Can't connect to University wifi
I am facing issue with connecting to wifi in University and since past 2 weeks after installing windows 8 pro i am not able to connect to wifi, now i am stuck not able to do any work.
I have tried all the forums posted in support forum but none of the answer worked for me.
if i downgrade to windows 7 will they pay me back the money?
or someone please help!!!!
:( :(
I found a similar thread you can refer:
The Windows 8 driver for Qualcomm Atheros seems has problems, try to install Windows 7 driver.
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- Označen jako odpověď Vinithtk čtvrtek 15. listopadu 2012 12:34
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1. Try to install or re-install the wireless driver. This post may help: Windows 8 RTM unable to connect to enterprise wifi
2. If there is not Windows 8 driver available, try windows 7 driver. Also refer to this post:Win8 - Unable to Connect to University WiFi - WPA-2 (PEAP)
3. Try to change Wifi Mode from Auto to a/b/g. Very unreliable WiFi performance on fresh Windows 8 install
4. Or Changing the encrypting from AES to TKIP.
Bob Lin, MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
- Navržen jako odpověď chicagotech čtvrtek 15. listopadu 2012 14:48
Thank you for the reply, But none of your suggestion worked.
1)i tried reinstalling wireless driver, didnt help
2) Windows 8 driver is available so i ve installed the latest driver in laptop (qualcom atheros, Laptop :asus k55vm)
3)changing wifi mode, didnt help
4) changing the encription : university wifi doesnt support TKIP.
In few forum they says that installing windows 7 driver will resolve the issue but now when I tried installing windows 7 driver in compatibility mode driver is not getting updated in network adapter it just install the software doesnt update the driver.
Do you any other solution? i am really in great dilemma, i am not able to work and i am wasting my time by going to computer lab just for accessing internet.
- Upravený Leo HuangModerator úterý 13. listopadu 2012 9:11
I found a similar thread you can refer:
The Windows 8 driver for Qualcomm Atheros seems has problems, try to install Windows 7 driver.
Leo Huang
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- Označen jako odpověď Vinithtk čtvrtek 15. listopadu 2012 12:34
Hi, I tried installing the windows 7 driver, software get installed but i cant find qualcom network adapter (device manger< network adaptors) , only after installing windows 8 version i can see the adapter.
Is there any way to fix this? so that i will install windows 7 driver and try connecting to wifi.
I tried installing windows 7 version of driver in compatibility mode, in compatibility mode it automatically detect it as windows xp (service pack 3 ) version and windows 8 version as 'previous version'.
Now it is really annoying to have windows 8.
- Upravený Vinithtk středa 14. listopadu 2012 19:33
If the University utilizes a permission which you must accept to gain access via WiFi which should popup a browser default you have either Internet Explorer or Firefox the next page shown will say welcome you now have Internet Access via our Network which requires you to gain access using the browser so once you have that link as a Guest there at the University requiring No Password Access like most institutions esp medical facilities you should bookmark that link to the browser and even make a shortcut on the desktop for it to popup when you have wireless, even if your computer has wireless the Linksys-Cisco. It is called Web-Authentication to a secure server which is dedicated for WiFi users to login. Cisco wireless adapters are best to use for this type connection, if you see white boxes on the walls in hallways you are looking at the wireless Cisco connection. I use a USB wire plus a Hub which has four connections on it and one cisco wireless adapter plugged into it because the unit width is to wide causing a laptop problem with another USB connected which disconnects over time because it is to close to each other and this separates more plus I end up with four more USB connectors and I hate the mouse pad so I deactivated it and connected a mouse USB wire to the laptop directly since I got fetup with the wireless mouse disconnecting because its idle forcing me to click and I did not like having to remember where the pointer is on the window.


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|Top Christian denominations by number of members
Maronite villagers building a church in Mount Lebanon, 1920s.
|Total population
|Disciples of Saint Maroun
|Regions with significant populations
|930,000 [2]
|500,000 [3]
|500,000 [4]
|150,000 [5]
|92,000 [6]
|80,000 [6]
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Lebanese Arabic, Cypriot Maronite Arabic
Maronites (Arabic: الموارنة, Turkish: Maruni, Syriac: ܡܪܘܢܝܐ, Latin: Ecclesia Maronitarum) are members of one of the Lebanese or Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches, with a heritage reaching back to Maron, a Syriac Monk in the early 5th century later beatified as Saint Maroun or Saint Maron. The first Maronite Patriarch, John Maron, was elected in the late 7th century. Although reduced in numbers today, Maronites remain one of the principal ethno-religious groups in Lebanon and they continue to represent the absolute majority of Lebanese people when the Lebanese diaspora is included. Unique amongst Eastern Catholics, the Maronites are Eastern Christians who have always remained in communion with the Bishop of Rome. [10]
Before the conquest by Arabian Muslims reached Lebanon, the Lebanese people including those who would become Muslim and the majority who would remain Christian, spoke a dialect of Aramaic.[11][12][13] Syriac (Christian Aramaic) still remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church.[14]
It was in Antioch that the followers of Jesus Christ were first called Christians (Acts 11:26). Antioch, especially after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70, became a centre for Christianity. According to Catholic tradition, the first Bishop was Saint Peter before his travels to Rome. The third Bishop was the Apostolic Father Ignatius of Antioch. Antioch became one of the five original Patriarchates (the Pentarchy) after Constantine recognized Christianity.
St. Maron, a contemporary and friend of St. John Chrysostom, was a monk in the fourth century who left Antioch for the Orontes River to lead an ascetic life, following the traditions of Anthony the Great of the Desert and Pachomius. Many of his followers also lived a monastic lifestyle. Following the death of Maron in 410, his disciples built a monastery in his memory and formed the nucleus of the Maronite Church.
The Maronites held fast to the beliefs of the Council of Chalcedon in 451. When 350 monks were slain by the Monophysites of Antioch, the Maronites sought refuge in the mountains of Lebanon. Correspondence concerning the event brought papal and orthodox recognition of the Maronites which was solidified by Pope Hormisdas (514-523) on February 10, 518. A monastery was built around the the shrine of St. Maro after the Council of Chalcedon[15]
The martyrdom of the Patriarch of Antioch in 602, left the Maronites without a leader, a situation which continued because of the final and most devastating war between the Byzantine and Persian Empires of the early 7th century. In 687 the Emperor Justinian II agreed to evacuate many thousands of Maronites from Lebanon and settle them elsewhere. The chaos and utter depression which followed led the Maronites to elect their first Patriarch, John Maroun, in 687. This however was seen as a usurpation by the Orthodox churches. Thus, at a time when Islam was rising on the borders of the Byzantine Empire and a united front was necessary to keep out the Islamic infiltration, the Maronites were focused on a struggle to retain their independence against imperial power. This situation was mirrored in other Christian communities in the Byzantine Empire and helped facilitate the Muslim conquest of the most of Eastern Christendom by the end of the century.
Now under Arabic rule after the Muslim conquest of Syria, the Maronites' relationship with the Byzantine Empire improved. The imperial court, seeing its earlier mistake, saw an advantage in the current situation. Thus, Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV provided direct ecclesiastical, political and military support to the Maronites. The new alliance soon coordinated devastating raids on Muslim forces, providing a welcome relief to the besieged Christians throughout the Middle East. Some of the Maronites relocated to Mount Lebanon at this time and formed several communities that became known as the Marada. That is from the view of 17th Century Patriarch Estephan El Douaihy (also known as Stephane Al Doueihi Arabic: أسطفان الدويهي, "The Father of Maronite History" and the "Pillar of the Maronite Church").
Another view is of Ibn al-Qilaii, a Maronite scholar from the 16th century who proposed that Maronites fled Muslim persecutions of the Umayyads, late 9th century.
The most widely accepted theory stipulates that the Maronites fled Jacobite monophysite persecution, because of Monothelite heresy as advanced by Sergius of Tyr a scholar of the 10th century. It is most probable, because nearly all the sects became Monothelite after that it was introduced by Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople. The Maronite migration to the mountains was over a long period, but the main migration must have occurred during the 7th century.
Around 1017, a new Muslim sect emerged calling themselves the Druze. At this time the Maronites, as dhimmi, were required to wear black robes and black turbans so to be easily identified; they were also forbidden to ride horses.
It was late in the 11th century when the Crusaders made their way to the lands of the Levant to overthrow Islam; on their way they passed through Lebanon where they came across the Maronites. The Maronites had been largely cut off from the rest of the Christian world resulting in part from a blockade that was said to have lasted for around 400 years. The Church in Rome had been unaware that the Maronites were still in existence. The crusaders and Maronites established ties and from this point provided each other with mutual assistance.
After 637, the Maronites were effectively isolated from Christians of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe. As a result they appointed their own Patriarch, starting with John Maron, who had been a bishop of Batroun, Mount Lebanon. Through him, the Maronites of today claim full apostolic succession through the See of Antioch. Nonetheless, controversy surrounds this claim as some Maronites have been accused of having fully adopted the Monothelite heresy; this led to a number of civil wars (e.g. 1282 and 1499).
Following the conquest of Eastern Christendom outside of Anatolia and Europe by the Muslims, and the establishment of secured lines of control between Islamic Caliphs and Byzantine Emperors, little was heard from the Maronites for 400 years. Secure in their mountain strongholds, it was not until the crusader Raymond of Toulouse on his way to conquer Jerusalem in the Great Crusade that the Maronites were re-discovered in the mountains near Tripoli, Lebanon. Raymond later returned to besiege Tripoli after his conquest of Jerusalem and relations between the Maronites and European Christianity were re-established.
During the Crusades in the 12th century, Maronites assisted the Crusaders and affirmed their affiliation with the Holy See in 1182. Consequently, from this point onwards, the Maronites have upheld an unbroken ecclesiastical orthodoxy and unity with the Catholic Church. To commemorate their communion, in 1100 Maronite Patriarch Youseff Al Jirjisi received the crown and staff marking his patriarchal authority, from Pope Paschal II. In 1131 Maronite Patriarch Gregorious Al Halati received letters from Pope Innocent II in which the Papacy recognized the authority of the Patriarchate.
It was in the 16th century when Western religious groups started settling in Lebanon. The migration began in 1626 with the Capuchins, followed by the Jesuits. The groups moving at this time did this in order to serve the Lebanese, opening schools for the Maronite people until there was a school next to each church. This made it possible for the Maronites to acquire a formal eduction. The Maronites were on the forefront of the cultural Renaissance in the Middle East.
However, connection to Rome was arduously maintained and through diplomacy and maneuvering, European powers helped keep the Maronite community from destruction. Eventually, a Maronite College was established at Rome on July 5, 1584. From this college, the Maronite community obtained some valuable assistance in maintaining their Christian identity. In 1610, the Maronite monks of the Monastery of Saint Anthony of Qozhaya imported one of the first printing presses in what is known as the Arabic-speaking world; however that press was printing in the Syriac language and not Arabic. The monasteries of Lebanon would later become key players in the Arabic Renaissance of the late 19th century as a result of developing Arabic, as well as Syriac, printable script.
Following the defeat of the Mamelukes by the Ottoman Empire, and to reward their new Druze ally who fought with them in the battle of Marj Dabek (1516), the Ottomans rewarded Prince Fakher el Din al Maani I, with the Principality of Lebanon, where he established a Druze-Maronite alliance lasting for hundreds of years and resulted in the establishment of a prosperous principality which would be the base of the modern Lebanese Republic.
The Maronites were partners in governing the new principality; often the post of Moudabbir (roughly Prime Minister) and the post of Army Commander were given to a Maronite, usually a Khazen or a Hobeich of Keserwan. During this period (1516-1840), the Maronites started returning to southern Mount Lebanon where they had lived before they were almost exterminated by the Mamelukes in 1307. Thus the historic Keserwan and all the Druze mountains were repopulated. It was this love and affection between the Maronites and Druze that helped establish the Lebanese identity.
On July 15, 1584, a Maronite college was established in Rome with Pope Gregory hosting the grand opening.
Fakhr-al-din II, who was said to have been brought up by a Maronite family, fought for Lebanese independence for over 50 years. In the mid 16th century, 25,000 Ottoman troops launched an attack on Lebanon. During the ensuing battles, Fakhr and three of his sons were captured and subsequently executed in Constantinople on the 13th day of April 1635
In 1638, France declared that it would protect the Catholics within the Ottoman Empire, including the Maronites.
In 1856, the Maronites' uprising took place against governor (Dawood pasha). Youssef Karam was the son of Sheikh Boutros Karam, at that time the Sheikh was lord of Ehden and surrounding district.
In 1997, Pope of the Catholic Church, John Paul II visited Lebanon to give hope to Lebanese Catholics. He said, "Lebanon is more than a country, it is a message."
The head of the Maronite Church is the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, who is elected by the Maronite bishops and resides in Bkerké, close to Jounieh, north of Beirut (the Maronite Patriarch resides in the northern town of Dimane during the summer months). The current Patriarch (since 1986) is Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir. When a new patriarch is elected and enthroned, he requests ecclesiastical recognition by the Pope, thus maintaining their communion with the Holy See. As an Eastern patriarch, the patriarch joins the College of Cardinals, being enrolled in the order of Cardinal Bishops; he does not receive a suburbicarian see, since he is a head of a sui iuris Church.
Maronites share the same doctrine as other Catholics, but they retain their own liturgy, theology, spirituality, discipline and hierarchy. Strictly speaking, the Maronite church belongs to the Antiochene tradition and is a West Syro-Antiochene Rite. Syriac is the liturgical language. Nevertheless, they are considered, along with the Syro-Malabar Church, to be among the most Latinised of the Eastern Catholic Churches although there have been moves to return to Eastern practices.
Cardinal Sfeir's personal commitment accelerated liturgical reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, bearing fruit in 1992 with the publication of a new Maronite Missal. This represents an attempt to return to the original form of the Antiochene Liturgy, removing the liturgical latinisation of past centuries. The Service of the Word has been described as far more enriched than in previous missals, and it features six Anaphoras (Eucharistic Prayers).
Celibacy is not strictly required for deacons and priests with parishes; monks, however, must remain celibate, as well as bishops who are normally selected from the monasteries. Due to a long-term understanding with their Latin counterparts in North America, Maronite priests in that area are expected to remain celibate. The bishops who serve as eparchs and archeparchs of the eparchies and archeparchies (the equivalent of diocese and archdiocese in the Roman Catholic Church) are answerable to the Patriarch.
The exact worldwide Maronite population is not known, although it is at least 3 million according to the Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Based on a 2007 report, approximately there are 930,000 Maronites in Lebanon where they constitute up to 22% of the population.[2] According to an agreement between the various political and religious leaders of Lebanon, the president of the country must be a Maronite.[16] Syrian Maronites total 51,000 and they follow the archdioceses of Aleppo and Damascus and the Diocese of Latakia.[17] There is also a Maronite community in Cyprus which speaks Cypriot Maronite Arabic.[18][19] They are a recognized religious minority on the island and the community elects a representative to sit in the House of Representatives to voice their interests. They are descended from those Maronites who accompanied the crusaders, although more recent Lebanese immigrants are often included as part of the community, which numbers 10,000.[17] A noticeable Maronite community exists in northern Israel, numbering 7,504.[17]
The two residing eparchies in the United States have issued their own "Maronite Census", designed to estimate how many Maronites reside in the United States. Many Maronites have been assimilated into Western Catholicism as there were no Maronite parishes or priests available. The "Maronite Census" was designed to locate these Maronites. There are also eparchies at São Paulo in Brazil; and in Argentina, Australia, Canada and Mexico.[17]
Modern Maronites often adopt French or other Western European given names (with biblical origins) for their children like Michel, Marc, Marie, Georges, Carole, Charles, Chris, Antoine and Pierre.
Given names of Arabic origins identical with those of their Muslim neighbors are also common, such as Khalil, Samir, Salim, Jameel, Hisham, or Toufic. Other common names are strictly Christian and are Aramaic, or Arabic, forms of biblical, Hebrew, or Greek Christian names, such as Antun (Anthony or Antonios), Butros (Peter), Boulos (Paul), Rami, Semaan or Shamaoun (Simon), Jergyes (George), Elie (Ilyas or Elias), Iskander (Alexander) and Beshara (literally Good News in reference to the Gospel). Other common names are Sarkis (Sergius) and Bakhos (Bacchus), while others are common both among Christians and Muslims, such as Youssef (Joseph) or Ibrahim (Abraham).
Some Maronite Christians are named in honour of Maronite saints, including the Aramaic names Maroun (after their patron saint, Maron), Nimtullah, Charbel and Rafqa.
Maronite Christians felt fear & excluded from Pan Arabism in Lebanon [20] [21], part of its historic suffering is the Damour_massacre by Islamic Palestinian & by Syrian forces, until recent, the Cyprus Maronites battle to preserve ancestral language [22], the Maronite monks maintain that Lebanon is synonymous with Maronite history and ethos; that its Maronitism antedates the Arab conquest of Syria and Lebanon and that Arabism is only a historical accident. [23]
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Maronites (Arabic: الموارنة, transliterated: Mawārinah, Syriac: ܡܪܘܢܝܐ, Latin: Ecclesia Maronitarum) are members of one of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches, with a heritage reaching back to Maron in the early 5th century. The first Maronite patriarch, John Maron, was appointed in the late 7th century. Although reduced in numbers and estimated to have lost their status as a majority in Lebanon itself. Today, Maronites remain one of the principal religious groups in the country.
Before the conquest by Arabian Muslims reached Lebanon, which resulted in the Arabization of both those who would become Islamized and those that would remain non-Islamized, the Lebanese people, including Maronites, spoke a dialect of Aramaic,[1] but have been Arabic-speaking since at least the 15th century.[2][3] Syriac however, still remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church.[4]


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