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Can anyone recommend any good reading,spelling, maths online sites for first year students? Sort of for ages 4-6.
My son is 4 but he can write and I'm currently teaching him reading. He loves using my laptop so I thought for something different I would mix the two and then he can have fun at the same time. Most of the stuff I have found is limited to just a few letters which he mastered in half an hour (mean while I can't even email photos to family back home in New Zealand)
I would appreciate any help.
Also he seems to have a really keen interest in Anatomy, both Human and Animal. Any reading material or sites for this would b welcome.
Thank you for reading my post.
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Thank you for contacting me. I really appreciate you taking the time out read my post. I do try to teach him in as many creative ways as I can. I always have to remember he is only four but he is a very smart four so once he has mastered something he gets bored and wants to move on to the next thing. But there are only so many ways you can get creative with reading and spelling ya know? Maths is easier because we can incorporate that in every day life and it's only adding and subtraction just now. But I've done everything from simple crosswords where it might have say C-T and he has to put in the missing vowel, or pick out all the words that start with P etc....there are a couple online games he loves to play too but as I said in my post, they are limited to just C,P,M,T,B and L, then it's just repetitive. But if you have any ideas I would welcome it with open arms. He's not bored just yet but I never wan him to be bored of learning which is why I want to make it as interesting for him and eventually his brother as much as I can. He uses my laptop for various Cbeebies games and NickJnr, when he has down time but I'm running out of ideas. Thanks for your reply xox
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According to Hippocrates (the father of medicine), celery calms the nerve – perhaps because of the high calcium content. It's good on kidney and will help eliminate body's waste through the urine. The seeds, leaves and edible root of the plant can all be used. Celery is used in aromatherapy and other traditional way of healing like Ayurveda. In Japan, rheumatic patients are sometimes put on a celery only diet.
Benefits of Celery:
1. Eating celery will reduce high blood pressure and give the effect of calmness.
2. Celery clears uric acid from painful joints and may help the treatment of arthritis and rheumatic problems.
3. Celery also helps the kidney an acts an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.
4. Another benefit of celery is the fact that you can eat a lot of it without thinking much about your waistline. Celery actually has almost zero calorie.
The use :
1. Grated or raw celery can be used on swollen glands.
2. To reduce high blood pressure, eat celery raw.
3. For those who are trying to reduce their weight, drink celery juice before meals. It will help to suppress the appetite.
Tips :
1. The best taste celery is the one with light green ribs and glossy surface
2. Keep celery away from the coldest areas of your fridge since it freezes easily. You don't want to eat frozen celery, right?
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Vitamin and Mineral Content :
* Vitamin B
* Riboflavin
* Niacin
* Vitamin C
* Calcium
* Iron
* Phosphorus
* Potassium
* Fat
* Carbohydrates
* Protein
* Calories
Benefits of Celery in the Body :
1. Arthritis
2. Rheumatism
3. Neuritis
4. Constipation
5. Asthma
6. Obesity
7. Tuberculosis
8. High blood pressure
9. Catarrh
10. Pyorrhea
11. Diabetes – leaves
12. Dropsy – roots
13. Diseases of the kidneys (nephritis)
14. Diseases of the pancreas
15. Diseases of the liver and gallbladder.
16. Brain overwork (brain fatigue)
17. Acidosis (the condition of depletion of alkaline reserve or bicarbonate content of the body, celery being an alkaline food.
18. Anemia, no doubt due to the presence of iron, some protein and Vitamin
19. Improvement of teeth, no doubt due to the presence of calcium.
20. Calms the nerve and give relief in cases of insomnia.
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Hong Kong Is Colder Than Sochi
It's so cold in Hong Kong right now that people are wearing jackets. Some, would you believe, are even sporting scarves. Yes, the temperature in this subtropical city has plummeted to 7.5 degrees Celsius (46 degrees Fahrenheit), which would be freezing, if it was 0 degrees Celsius.
The Hong Kong Observatory says Tuesday's temperature is the coldest recorded so far this winter and the lowest recorded in February since 1996. Usually, the city sees February temperatures of between 15 and 19 degrees Celsius. In Sochi, the Russian city hosting the Winter Olympics, the temperature reached 16 degrees Celsius on Monday.
Even in Krasnaya Polyana, where the outdoor events of the Winter Olympics are taking place, it hit 15 degrees Celsius on Monday, forcing the cancellation of training sessions at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Center because snow had softened in the landing area.
Here's a solution: Bring the Games to Hong Kong. Think how spectacular it would look if the Peak Tram was converted into a ski ramp, allowing competitors to soar into the city's skyline. Admittedly there's a problem: No snow in Hong Kong. The last time it snowed here was December 1975 in the New Territories, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. But it never gets very cold, despite what shivering residents might say.
Still, there are plenty of potential Winter Olympics cities experiencing much colder weather than Sochi (and Hong Kong) now. Beijing, for starters. The Chinese capital, along with northern neighbor Zhangjiakou, has bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics (we hope to see freestyle skiing events over the Great Wall and speed-skating on Houhai, on chairs and ice bicycles).
Beijing has had a mild winter by its standards, but since the Lunar New Year holidays, the weather has returned to type. On Tuesday morning, it was around -5 degrees Celsius. But the city has a relatively dry climate, which is a problem if you're looking for a reliable supply of snow.
Frank Strait from AccuWeather said he doesn't expect Beijing to receive much snow even if it gets the 2022 Olympics. "I suspect that Oslo would be the best candidate," he said.
Mr. Strait suggested two alternatives for the 2014 Games. Both are mountainous, which is a pretty important ingredient for alpine skiing, and both are experiencing unusually cold weather.
One is Yuncheng, in central China's Shanxi province, not far from Xian—that's the home of the Terracotta Warriors, who are battling below freezing temperatures and snow. The other suggestion is Boon, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The town is expecting 30 centimeters (about a foot) of snow this week. In Sochi, rain showers are forecast for Tuesday, AccuWeather says.
-- Will Davies, with contributions from Henry Williams. Follow Will on Twitter at @WillMHDavies. Follow Henry @digitalhen.
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Feds seek second term for Rowland
Forced to resign Connecticut's highest office a decade ago for betraying the public's trust, former Republican Gov. John G. Rowland is facing a new round of criminal charges for his alleged role in a campaign cover-up.
Federal investigators indicted Rowland on Thursday in a stunning recurrence of history for the once-imprisoned governor, fingering him as a co-conspirator in a plot to mislead election officials about consulting work he did for GOP congressional candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley in 2012.
Rowland, 56, is charged with offenses stemming from his efforts to conceal the extent of his involvement in two federal election campaigns in the seven-count indictment.
Said former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., who was one of the first Republicans to call on Rowland to resign as governor: "I think it's really sad that John Rowland, who had one of the most promising political careers of anybody in a generation here in Connecticut, has now run afoul of the law twice."
In addition to his involvement with Wilson-Foley, the indictment mentions Rowland trying to enter into a similar arrangement with another GOP congressional candidate, Mark Greenberg, who rebuffed him.
"That's old news," Greenberg told Hearst Connecticut Media during a cocktail reception before Thursday night's Prescott Bush dinner in Stamford.
Greenberg declined to comment further.
"The indictment charges Rowland with two counts of falsification of records in a federal investigation, a charge that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years on each count; one count of conspiracy, a charge that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years; two counts of causing false statements to be made to the (Federal Election Commission), a charge that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years on each count; and two counts of causing illegal campaign contributions, a charge that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of one year on each count," according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Rowland is expected to be arraigned Friday at 2:30 p.m. at federal court in New Haven.
Rowland's lawyer, Reid Weingarten, an expert in white-collar criminal cases and former Justice Department counsel, did not immediately respond to phone and email messages seeking comment.
More InformationJohn G. Rowland time line
1939 -- John Rowland's grandfather, Sherwood L. Rowland, the city comptroller of Waterbury and a Republican, provided the proof that brought down Mayor T. Frank Hayes, a Democrat who was also serving as lieutenant governor of Connecticut.
1957 -- Rowland is born in Waterbury.
1981 -- Rowland, 23, is elected to the state General Assembly from his hometown of Waterbury.
1985 -- Rowland enters the U.S. Congress, representing Connecticut's 5th District, in an election win helped by Ronald Reagan's coattails.
1990 -- Rowland announces that rather than seek a third term in Congress, he will run for governor of Connecticut.
1991 -- Having lost the gubernatorial election to Lowell P. Weicker, who was running as the Connecticut Party candidate, Rowland goes to work at his family's insurance agency.
1994 -- Defeating Democrat Bill Curry and two others, Rowland is elected the 86th governor of Connecticut.
1998 -- Rowland wins a second term as governor, defeating Democrat Barbara Kennelly.
2002 -- Rowland wins a third term as governor, defeating Democrat Bill Curry.
2004 -- Rowland resigns as governor on July 1.
2004 -- He pleads guilty on Dec. 23 to depriving the public of honest service. He goes on TV and admits that work had been done by contractors on his Litchfield vacation cottage, which included a hot tub, at no charge. State contractors and Rowland staff had plotted to provide or pay for the renovations.
2005 -- On March 18, he is sentenced to serve one year and one day in prison, followed by four months of house arrest.
2006 -- Rowland is released from the Loretto federal prison in Pennsylvania in February.
2008 -- He begins work as the economic development director of the Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce. Some of his salary is reportedly paid by the city of Waterbury.
2010 -- Rowland begins his talk show on WTIC radio in Hartford.
2012 -- He leaves his Waterbury economic development job.
2014 -- Lisa Wilson-Foley and her husband, Brian Foley, plead guilty in federal court in March to skirting campaign finance laws by paying Rowland as a consultant to Brian Foley's chain of nursing homes while he worked on Lisa Wilson-Foley's campaign.
2014 -- Rowland resigns from his WTIC talk show on April 3, citing "personal issues.''
2014 -- Rowland charged with a seven-count federal indictment on April 10
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"Obviously, it's just hard to believe after what he's been through, admitting guilt to previous crimes, that he would go down that road again," state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, a candidate for governor, said of Rowland. "He's obviously innocent until proven guilty."
Numerous people close to the current investigation told Hearst that Rowland turned down an 18-month prison sentence as part of a plea deal.
The indictment of Rowland, who was put on a pedestal by his party at a young age and served in Congress, culminates a dragnet for political corruption in Connecticut wide in scope that originated in Rowland's native Waterbury.
It also caps a humbling week for the disgraced politician and Middlebury resident, who April 3 gave up his radio talk show, that was key to rehabilitating his image, under mounting pressure from critics, including Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
The timing could not be more inopportune for Connecticut Republicans, who held their marquee fundraising dinner of the year in Stamford on Thursday night with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as the keynote speaker.
Democrats already drew an analogy to the movie "Groundhog Day," mentioning that one of Bush's last major visits to Connecticut came when Rowland was governor in 2003.
"We've definitely seen this movie before, and we know how badly it ends," state Democratic Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo said in a statement. "The (Connecticut) GOP bringing back John Rowland's close friend, Jeb Bush, on the eve of more expected felony indictments for Rowland only reinforces the fact that the Connecticut Republican Party is still influenced by Rowland."
State GOP Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr. pushed back against the claim that Rowland is still in the good graces of Republicans.
"It's a cheap shot from a Democratic Party which is desperate to change the subject from Dan Malloy's mismanagement of our economy and the brutally high taxes we all have to pay," Labriola said in a statement to Hearst Connecticut Media. "The Republican Party is focused on the future, and is committed to fixing Connecticut's economy. While there may be great fascination in this story, the fact is John Rowland has no connection to the Connecticut Republican Party nor has he for over 10 years."
Labriola declined further comment Thursday night at the Prescott Bush Dinner.
Rowland resigned as governor in 2004 and served 10 months in prison for accepting bribes that included $90,000 in charter flights to Florida and Las Vegas from Key Air of Oxford, which enjoyed million-dollar tax breaks from his administration.
The scandal, compounded with the arrest of several other major public servants, led to the coining of the pejorative of "Corrupticut."
"Even from the beginning, his compass was totally screwed up. There's no remorse in these people," said John Olsen, who was both president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO and chairman of the state Democratic Party while Rowland was governor. "The whole thing is a sad, sad chapter for Connecticut."
Investigators say Rowland got paid off-the-books by Wilson-Foley's campaign, with the candidate and her husband, Brian Foley, funneling money to him through a nursing home business.
The couple pleaded guilty in federal court March 31 to hatching the consulting arrangement with Rowland. They each face up to a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine, but are expected to receive probation in return for rolling over on Rowland, multiple sources familiar with the dynamics of the case told Hearst Connecticut Media.
Rowland's former campaign manager, George Gallo, is also under federal investigation for allegedly steering GOP direct-mail contracts to a Florida firm as chief of staff for the House Republican caucus.
Red flags went up when Rowland received $35,000 for consulting work from Apple Health Care, a chain of nursing homes owned by Brian Foley.
At the same time, Rowland was a political adviser to Wilson-Foley, who finished last in the GOP's 5th Congressional District primary.
The relationship spawned a complaint with the Federal Election Commission by Mike Clark, a retired FBI agent and GOP rival of Wilson-Foley who took part in the sting that sent Rowland to prison.
Failing to report campaign expenditures to the FEC is a crime.
Rowland likely would get to keep his state pension of $4,309 a month, even as a repeat offender.
An ethics reform law spawned by Rowland's resignation as governor, but narrowed in its scope by the Legislature, only applies to sitting public-sector officials and employees who are convicted of abusing their powers.
Connecticut taxpayers also foot the bill, currently estimated at $2,050 per month, for medical, dental and prescription coverage for Rowland and his family, according to the state comptroller's office, which also provided Hearst Connecticut Media with Rowland's monthly pension amount.
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Barbara Daughety recovered from a broken hip to play basketball in a national tournament.
After hip replacement surgery, Barbara Daughety could only think about getting back on the basketball court.
�Lady, I have never been asked by a 76-year-old woman when she can play ball again,� Daughety said her doctor, Scott Stegbaugh, told her after the January surgery.
Daughety has played in the 2013 National Senior Games basketball � with one year of softball � since 2003 and has loved every moment. She, along with four other Kinston senior citizens, play out of Greenville and have made it to National Senior Games competition each year.
Her team made it to the nationals in Cleveland, Ohio, in July, less than six months after her injury.
�I�m very blessed to be able to be back on the court,� said Daughety, a 5-foot-10 former then-Contentnea HighSchool center. She played all four years before graduating in 1954.
In January, she and her teammates were practicing at Alice Keene Park in Greenville.Daughety said she got too far ahead of herself during suicide drills.
�We got to doing it so fast and my feet got tangled up,� she said. �Next thing I know, I�m on the floor.�
She broke her hip on Jan. 28 and had surgery on the 29th. Both her son and daughter were leery about her getting back on the court, although she healed soundly.
�I got along so good,� Daughety said. �You would not believe it. Right now, if I didn�t know, I couldn�t tell which hip it was.�
Her injury moved her to a lower-age team, so she didn�t play with the women she was used to playing with the last 10 years while in Ohio.
However, her hip didn�t at all bother her during the nationals run.
Senior Games and Injury
She and the 65-and-up team out of Greenville/Pitt County travelled to Cleveland for the games that ran from July 19 through Thursday. They faced off with the best senior basketball teams from around the country during the three-on-three tournament, but they were knocked off in the first round.
While Daughety felt she would have advanced further if she was playing with her 75-and-up team, she said it was still enjoyable to be active.
�It really is encouraging,� she said of the Senior Games. �They have the same aches and pains, but they don�t lie on the couch; they get out and do something.�
The Senior Games features a variety of sports.
�When I went there, I saw these women getting gold medals that were in their 90s for swimming,� Daughety said. �They were on canes. They couldn�t hardly walk � but they could swim.�
She said her participation over the years taught her not to give up because of old age.
�You just keep going,� she said. �It�s just wonderful to walk around and see people who are in their old age, but they can still do something.�
Daughety�s two adult children play tennis and probably couldn�t guard her on a basketball court, admittedly.
�I love it,� said Bruce Daughety, Barbara�s son. �It�s an inspiration for me. I hope I can do it as long as she can.�
Hubert Quinerly, Kinston High School girls� basketball coach, said athletes, of all ages, rely heavily on their lower bodies, and any injury could tremendously affect that.
�The fact that you can � come back and play in a meaningful game, it speaks to her testimony,� Quinerly said of Barbara Daughety. �If someone who is 76 can do it, kids 15 and up can do it with no problem.�
Daughety said on top of being healthy, players must be extremely competitive to go up against some of the ladies they meet at nationals.
�It�s kind of rough,� she said while laughing. �There were some nice ladies. When they knock you down, they help you get up. To be competitive, you have to have several good players that you can run in and out, and we didn�t really have that. We�ve got a few that are really good.�
The Greenville/Pitt County team was out in the first round, so Daughety is looking forward to getting back with her 75-and-upteam to claim a nationals trip in 2015. It will be hosted in Minneapolis, Minn., and Daughety already wears the gold 2015 band around her wrist.
�I never dreamed years ago that at this stage, I could still play and be travelling,� she said.
The Game of Basketball
Daughety began her basketball career as a freshmanat Contentnea High. She said she would score nearly 50 points a game under a much different clock-management system in the 1950s.
She and both her sisters love the game. One, Linda Burke, plays with a Raleigh Senior Games team, while the other, Dot Lang, was part of a Kinston/Lenoir County Sports Hall of Fame-inducted team at North Lenoir. Langstill holds the record for all-time leading scorer at the school.
�My family is basketball,� Daughety said. �All of them are Carolina (fans) except me. I�m a die-hard Wolfpack fan, everybody in Kinston that knows me knows how I love the Wolfpack.�
When she graduated from high school, scholarships weren�t offered to women, but she was recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigationto play basketball for a year in Washington, D.C.
She had a boyfriend back home who influenced her to come back to Kinston � and they were later married.
Her marriage to Orville Daughety lasted 56 years until his death in 2011, and Bruce Daughety took over his father�s car dealership on Queen Street.
�That year, I didn�t play any basketball because he was so sick,� Barbara Daughety said. �I stayed with my husband, and I didn�t regret a day of that. He passed away, and I started back playing.
�(Basketball) has filled a void for me, you know.�
She said ladies tried to recruit her for a Senior Games team years before she started in 2003, and it was one practice that got her �hooked.�
Daughety said she often sports a T-shirt with an inspirational slogan scripted across the back: �We don�t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.�
She doesn�t plan on hanging up her ball and jersey any time soon.
�I really believe that you stay young as long as you stay active,� Daughety said.
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Justin Bieber was discovered at age 12 after posting videos of himself singing on YouTube. Until recently, he was a leading trending topic on Twitter. His "Baby" video alone has drawn more than 160 million views on YouTube, and footage of him bumping his head on a revolving door went viral.
Now there's a Bieber backlash on the medium that gave us the boy singer: the Internet.
The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab has released an application called Shaved Bieber that allows users to scrub the freshly scrubbed 16-year-old Canadian from computers, The Telegraph reports. The app will blackout Bieber's name and pictures of the mini mop top from your PC.
Bieber (hopefully) is too young to get the naughty pun behind the app name. But he's certainly smart enough to appreciate the satire of his web ubiquity.
Whatever you think of his manufactured pop sound and his effect on tween girls, you've got to give the kid this: he has a sense of humor.
He showed as much last month, holding his own against Tina Fey on "Saturday Night Live." As an April Fools gag, Bieber flooded Funny or Die, with comic shorts, declaring he had bought the site and renamed it "Bieber or Die."
He lampooned himself as both a creature of the Internet and a spoiled celebrity with lines like this: "Anything that's not Bieber, dies. I'm a star. I do what stars do. I ride on yachts, I autograph lady lumps and I pay people to slap them."
Bieber is showing early parallels to another (former) teen idol with "SNL" links, a flair for comedy and a knack for viral videos: Justin Timberlake.
Timberlake got his start nearly two decades on "Star Search," a gentler "America Idol" of its day. Bieber, meanwhile, is a product of the web, which seems to be a new route to pop stardom.
Just this week, "American Idol" judge Ellen DeGeneres announced she was starting a record label – and signed 12-year-old Grayson Chance who appeared on her talk show after she discovered his YouTube cover of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi." The latest YouTube sensation, meanwhile, is a 2-year-old girl from Ireland whose version of Bieber's "Baby" will elicit a smile and some laughs.
So tempting as it might be to ban Bieber from your computer, even if only to make a cranky statement on pop culture, you run the risk of missing out on some Justin gems like these:
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So it turns out the secret to DC's success on the big screen has nothing to do with Superman or Batman and everything to do with Aquaman.
As soon as this weekend, the Warner Bros. flick about the King of the Seven Seas will cross $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. It looks poised to become the top-grossing DC Comics movie ever — passing the critically acclaimed Dark Knight series that featured Christian Bale as the caped crusader — and one of the top superhero movies of all time.
The unexpected success is good news for a studio that's struggled to get the most out of its superheroes, and has lagged behind Walt Disney Co.'s more appealing Marvel characters.
Featuring Game of Thrones actor Jason Momoa in the lead role, Aquaman is already a hit in North America and China, the two biggest film markets, and will build on that when it opens in Japan next month. The picture has taken in $963 million worldwide so far and should reach $1.1 billion by the end of its run, according to Shawn Robbins of Box Office Pro.
That makes it No. 1 among the DC films that Warner Bros. has released since the studio introduced Henry Cavill to a mixed reception as the new Superman in 2013's Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder. That film kick-started an interconnected series of movies that includes Batman v Superman, Justice League, Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman.
With Aquaman, director James Wan managed to create an entertaining underwater world for the hero, who is half human and half Atlantean. Wan tells an origin story about a superhero who can communicate with marine life and must fight to reclaim his throne under the seas from his evil brother Orm (Patrick Wilson).
"This character has been a bit of a joke in pop culture," director James Wan told the Sun last month. "I wasn't afraid to say, 'This should be a fun movie.' This should be a vibrant, colourful movie. The world wants it to be that. I went for that and the studio had the same feeling and confidence in what I was going for."
In a separate interview with the Sun, Momoa said the popularity of the character was likely down to the fact that movie fans are thirsting for different superhero stories.
"People want more. They've heard those other stories, and there's plenty more to tell, but they want new ones. When Batman v Superman came out and it introduced Wonder Woman, she came in and blew it open."
Before its release in 2017, Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot told the Sun that the heroine "deserved to have an origin story."
"Every superhero we know, whether it's Superman or Batman or Spider-Man or whoever it is, they all have their origin story and we always understand where they're coming from and what made them become who they really are."
The next movie in the DC lineup is Shazam! (April 5) which will be DC's most "lighthearted movie" yet, director David F. Sandberg told the Sun. It follows troubled 14-year-old Billy Batson, who can transform into an adult superhero.
"The big attraction for me with that character is the fact that every kid dreams of being Superman, right? I mean I certainly did, and (Billy Batson) is a kid that gets that chance," the Lights Out director told the Sun. "It'll be (the movie) Big with superpowers in a way. In terms of what people can expect, I think this will be one of the more fun or lighthearted movies so far in the DC universe. It certainly will be a departure."
Director Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman 1984— a follow-up to her hit Wonder Woman— is set for June 2020.
"On the one hand, I always believed that a good Wonder Woman movie could be so much more successful than people might have thought," Jenkins told the Sun in an interview to promote Wonder Woman's release on Blu-ray. "But the way that our particular film was embraced, not only as a Wonder Woman movie, has been so stunning and magical."
Before taking on Aquaman, Wan was a success in the horror genre and made the biggest hit in Universal Pictures' Fast and Furious franchise. Taking on the sixth film in the DC series, he left behind stories set up by past instalments.
"I pretty much built this movie from scratch," Wan says.
With Aquaman a success, Warner Bros. will now offer up a mix of comic book movies.
Jenkins told us that one of the things that excites her about DC is its "treasure trove of great characters."
"I think there are a lot of directors doing cool things. I know the storylines for a lot of the films they are working on and they are all vastly different, with very different tones and very different styles of storytelling," she says
This year's Joker origin tale, will position the famed Batman villain in a brand-new light. Early reports say star Joaquin Phoenix delivers a "heartbreaking" performance.
On the horizon, Guardians of the Galaxy writer-director James Gunn will also take a stab at Suicide Squad 2 and a solo Flash movie with Ezra Miller is in the works.
In February of next year, the studio will also release a Harley Quinn spinoff with the bonkers title, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
"It's not a very serious movie so we thought the title should reflect that," star Margot Robbie told the Tonight Show last month. "Birds of Prey makes it sound really serious and that's kind of like Harley adding her, 'Don't worry, I'm in this too.'"
As for whether we'll ever see a sequel to Justice League, Momoa is enthusiastic at the idea.
"If that s— happens, they better let me in. I'd definitely like to come riding in on a tidal wave to whoop some ass."
-With files from The Washington Post
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The Flower Council of Holland launched their My Favourite Flower campaign with the biggest bouquet in Britain. The enormous bouquet was made at Potters Fields in front of London's Tower Bridge. The Flower council tweeted that people could come and take a bunch of their favourite flowers away.
Passers-by were encouraged to give the flowers to give away to loved ones. As research carried out by the Flower Council revealed that half of British adults have never been given flowers, 64% of men have never received flowers and 31% of women only receive their favourite flowers once a year.
The colossal bouquet stood 6 metres high and 5 metres wide, it took a team of 6 florists, 18 hours to construct. It contained 12,000 stems of cut flowers, highlighting the UK's top ten favourite flowers, rose, tulip, lily, orchid, freesia, calla, carnation, sunflower, delphinium and amaryllis.
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At a recent Media Day at New Holland headquarters in New Holland, Pa., journalists had the chance to get a closer look at the company's new track option on its T9 series high-horsepower tractors. First launched at farm shows last fall, the new SmartTrax track option consists of four belted rubber tracks designed to reduce soil compaction and slippage created by these 600-plus-hp tractors. They also can provide for a smoother ride over bumps compared to wheels, the company says.
Sean Dorosz, New Holland high horsepower tractor marketing manager, says SmartTrax is a premium-priced offering but has a lot of features that balance out that cost. One of those is its single-wheel design, which allows you to bolt the tracks onto the same axle as the tires. This design allows you to switch out wheels for tracks, depending on field conditions.
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The new SmartTrax track options are available for New Holland's wide frame T9.615 and T9.670 tractor models. Pricing information is pending. For more information, see your local New Holland dealer or visit www.newholland.com/na.


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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' finance minister urged lawmakers Friday to approve a first batch of spending cuts and tax hikes agreed with international creditors by Dec. 13, when the other 16 EU countries that use the euro are expected to discuss a bailout deal.
Vassos Shiarly said the only element left to determine in the bailout accord with the 'troika' of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund is how much cash troubled Cypriot banks need. The banks need to replenish their reserves after taking huge losses of around €4.5 billion ($5.84 billion) on bad Greek debt and loans.
Shiarly said that investment firm PIMCO and auditors Deloitte, which are currently assessing banks' needs, will issue a preliminary figure on Dec. 7, while the formal sum will be known by mid-January.
"As a result, you understand that there is an outstanding issue that will remain for some time until the final figure is issued. However, this doesn't stop us from completing the memorandum (bailout) to the greatest possible degree," Shiarly said.
Cyprus' Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades said Friday that amount won't exceed €10 billion ($12.99 billion). A leaked draft of the bailout accord said that "up to €10 billion is foreseen" for Cypriot banks which includes "potential future capital needs."
Cypriot officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, say that they believe the banks' recapitalization needs to be much lower, closer to €7 billion ($9 billion).
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Cyprus, with a total economic output of €17.5 billion ($22.7 billion), sought international aid in June to save its teetering banks and to pay its bills after being shut out of international markets for a year because of its junk credit rating. The country will see its economy shrink this year by 2.4 percent of GDP and 3.5 percent in 2013. Unemployment will peak at over 14 percent in 2014 before it starts to recede, the finance ministry said.
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This Sunday the EFW team head to Ostend to see KVO take on Royal Antwerp. Shamefully, I knew nothing about the home team - until today. I dialed up a Belgian guy called Gerrit. Who he? Only one of the nicest most informative chaps one could ever wish to speak to. This is what he had to say....
KVO was founded in 1981 out of a merger of two local teams: AS Oostende (Atletische Sportvereniging Oostende, translated as Atheltic Sportsclub Oostende) and VG Oostende (Vanneste Genootschap Oostende, named after a local who was somehow involved with the foundation of the club). VGO was a slightly older club and had the matricule number 31, their colours were yellow-red and they played most of their existance in the Armenonville stadium (located besides the hospital not far from the Kontergem district of the city). AS Oostende had the matricule 53 and played most of their existence in the Albertpark (which is still the current stadium of the club) in the district of Mariakerke, back then a separate community but by now part of Oostende proper. Their colours were red-green. I am pretty sure that AS Oostende had a more socialist background, and VG a more liberal background. Back in the days when football was new in Belgium, most villages and cities (even small villages) had multiple clubs where politics divided the clubs from each other. Oostende was home to some other teams such as SK Voorwaarts Oostende and Hermes Oostende (both playing at the Mispelplein close to the airport) who later would merge to the now defunct HogerOp Oostende. These teams never played any major role and always remained in the lower amateur leagues.
AS Oostende has played in the top division for a few years. The club has also experienced many lows as well as highs. They were once relegated for match-fixing, but also the AS Oostende goalkeeper played in the Belgian national team's goal during the world cup in 1954 (even though AS Oostende was in the second division at that time !). VG Oostende's best achievement was the second level.
Derbies between both teams were often heated and kept the city in a trance. Often there was no away support: fans of both clubs did not want a single penny in the pocket of the local rival, so they refused to pay entrance tickets and spend money going to the hated rivals. That was how intense the rivalry was.
Talks of a merger first appeared during the seventies but the water was still too deep then. However, VG Oostende and AS Oostende both were in very troubled waters financially, on the brink of bankruptcy. A merger more and more became the only way out to assure professional football surviving in Oostende. The city council also supported a merger because this was realistically the only way to avoid both clubs collapsing. In 1981 the merger was realised despite heavy protests of the fans (at the wall of the VGO stadium was painted "A merger -- never !".
The new team continued with the matricule 31 of VG Oostende and in the Albertpark stadium of AS Oostende. The team started off in third division. The first seasons the merger took a while to digest. Fans of AS and VG were blaming the players from the former rival when the newly founded club did not perform well. It took a few years before the new club was really accepted, and nowadays I can safely say that the overwhelming majority of fans are former ASO fans or children of an ASO-orientated family. Because of the latter, even younger fans who never knew AS or VG as separate clubs and didn't experience the merger themselves, often still have anti-VGO or pro-ASO sentiments.
The club had little success until Raoul Peeters took control. This coach brought the team into the second division finally in 1992 and, against all odds, the club secured a second promotion in a row a year later and immediately reached the top division for the first time. Nobody gave KVO much chance to survive but the team defied the odds and finished 7th spot. Still the best ever performance in the history of the club, and KVO was even voted as Team of the Season. The team was made up of many local boys. Goalkeeper Christophe Lycke was a fisherman before turning professional, Björn Renty was a native of neighbouring coastal town Middelkerke, there were players like Johnny Neirynck and Danny Devuyst (Neirynck worked as a hamburger servant in a local McDonald's and Devuyst since retiring from football runs a succesful tavern in Oostende) ; the only "non local input" were only a handful of players who however were very much an added value. Mike Origi of Kenya became a true KVO legend, Zbigniew Swietek of Poland scored 13 goals in his first season in the top division if I remember well (although apparently the official site says otherwise), and Janik (also of Poland) made such a huge impact that he has a few years ago been elected as best ever player to wear the KVO shirt.
The team was especially hard to beat at home and the trip to the Albertparkstadium (located just behind the seaside promenade, which made strong winds and frequent rain very common -- this made the game extra difficult for the visiting teams) and was the sensation of the top division. The KVO support, without any trace of hooliganism at that time, was welcomed all over Belgium as being amongst the most pleasant fans of the league.
The board, lead by eccentric president Eddy Vergeylen, then made a capital mistake: rather than investing in new players, they built a very expensive business seats building. This would have been a great investment if the team continued to perform like the year before. Unfortunately this didn't happen and KVO relegated back to second division, finishing second from bottom. That year we did win at Club Brugge (2-3 with an epic performance from Mike Origi) but overall we only won 5 games (cup games excluded) and only one game (a 0-0 away to Beveren) we did not let in any goals. A 7-1 defeat away to Aalst was our worst score.
Back in second division we signed a lot of expensive players such as prolific goalscorer Zlatko Arambasic (a true goal machine). We also signed very experienced coach Urbain Hasaert. It was clear that we wanted to go back to first division immediately. In the end we narrowly missed the championship title and had to play promotion playoffs. There we missed on promotion. Result: more debts.
The club was forced to sell the best players and start with low ambitions and young players to control the debts somehow. In that next season we finished halfway the table and had 17 draws out of 34 games.
The next season nobody had high expectations but the team performed much better than expected. Coach Dennis Van Wijck and his team became a huge success and we won the second division, promoting back to the top division very unexpectedly. For the last away game vs Geel we had 17 buses filled with travelling fans, a fact we would never ever repeat. The stay in the top division only lasted 1 year and we relegated again, although we did beat the famous Standard Liège 2-1 on the first day of the season. Some very famous players like Edmilson, Laurent Dauwe and Roger Lukaku played for us that year, and it was the year when the notorious Jean Marie Pfaff was coaching us for a while (a while... because his results were so poor and players complained so much about his trainings, that he was fired again later on the season).
Things went from bad to worse because back in second division, even though we reached the playoffs, it was clear there were internal struggles. The second year in the second division was a disaster. We relegated to third division and also suffered our worst ever defeat; 9-0 in Turnhout. It was also the year in which Luc Devroe, manager rather than an on-field coach, was forced to become our trainer as Leo Van der Elst was fired for bad results and there was no other viable solution than making Devroe the coach. He was terrible (although the players he had to work with were also far from good). One game was memorable: the home game versus Deinze. We were 0-2 behind when goalkeeper Bargibant was sent off with a red card. A few minutes later reserve goalkeeper Virgil De Windt was also sent off with a red card! Defender Dominique DHooghe out of necessity had to play goalkeeper for the remaining 17 minutes. In those minutes, despite being with only 9 players left and with someone in goal who never played goalkeeper before, we managed to overcome a 0-2 score and finish the game 2-2. A very spectacular game but in the end we relegated anyway.
The first season in third division wasn't success either with bad football, but we nonetheless qualified for the playoffs. We lost in the final to Hamme, 4-1. The second year the football wasn't much better, in the end we finished second and played promotion playoffs again. In that, we lost in the first round vs Leuven. However, as the champions of this year's third division, Berchem Sport, were forbidden promotion due to financial problems, we were taking their place and promoted despite not winning the playoffs.
The next year in second division was another success story. Inexperienced coach Gilbert Bodart (former goalkeeper of Standard Liège and the national team) brought together a team with limited budget but with some extremely good players from our youth academy breaking through and with some low-cost transfers proving to be a success. We reached the play-offs for promotion and won it. A home victory vs Tubize (1-0 with a fantastic goal by David Crv) sealed our ticket back into the top division (also thanks to competitor Roeselare collapsing under the stress and losing their last playoff game, which meant we leapfrogged over them at the last moment). During this season we also signed Paul Okon, former Player of the Year in Belgium and highly successful with Club Brugge, Middlesbrough and Lazio Rome, and international for Australia. To sign a player that famous was unseen before in Oostende. He came to us and said "maybe people will say I am crazy for doing this" but he did so because he wanted to be back in Belgium. With an experienced legend like Okon in the defense, we sealed promotion. Okon also remained loyal to the club during the next year in the premier division.
This did not become a success unfortunately. We relegated back to the second division and coach Bodart got sacked because he got involved in a match-fixing scandal. Apparently he had gambled on his own team losing games. The moment the club found out about these rumours and had indications it was true, the coach got fired on the spot. Despite the relegation it was a season to remember. There was legend Paul Okon in defense, there were three other Australian players (an Australian flag was hanging from the stand very often), goalkeeper Dimitri Habran was one of the most passionate players we've seen in Oostende, and best of all: we won the away game versus giants Anderlecht 0-1. Anderlecht had about 23 shots on goal but none of them went in. We had one single chance in the whole game and scored it. For a small team like KVO, beating Anderlecht away is the type of victory that will still be remembered in 15 years' time.
Ever since the relegation we've been in second division, trying to get back into the premier division. A few times we came close to playing the playoffs for promotion but missed out narrowly a couple of times. KVO did get praised for being one of the only financially healthy clubs in the division, and for playing with many local boys who have been playing for KVO since childhood. Lars Wallaeys is a good example. At the moment, about 5 or 6 first team players come out of our own youth program. However, there is a downside too as bad football and lack of good results saw the fanbase reduce in numbers, only just over 1000 die-hards stay loyal to the club while only against big teams we get a higher attendance now and then. Of course this is nothing new, I remember the year we relegated to third division that there were exactly 4 fans travelling to the away game in Heusden-Zolder: me, my father, and two friends (none of us living in Oostende at that time).
KVO's fans proudly embrace the fishermen's culture of the city, and rather than typical football songs, the fans sing old fishermen's songs (in the Ostend dialect) on the stands. Examples are "M'n Zeekapiting" ("My naval captain") and "Op de vismarkt" ("At the fish market"). Also, when KVO scores, the chorus of "Oh la la la" by TC Matic is played ; the singer of TC Matic, musical legend Arno Hintjens, is a native of Oostende and still visits pubs in his city of birth very often (he is not a football fan however and has never performed at a KVO game).
The Albertpark stadium has a capacity of about 9000. It used to have two seated stands next to each other with terracing on both ends. Now it is an all-seater in order to be ready in case of promotion (since the premier division requires a minimum of seats in order to get a license).
VG Oostende, one of both clubs that merged to form KVO, was re-founded by fans who could not accept the merger. This happened in 1982, one year only after the merger. The city council initially was against it but could not stop it. The new VGO is considered a new club though, with a new matricule. Since Armenonville was declared unsafe, the city (who own the Albertparkstadium) allowed VGO to groundshare with KVO. This lasted for almost 10 years, only a few months ago VGO moved out of Albertpark and now plays at the Mispelplein of the former defunct HogerOp Oostende (itself a merger of SK Voorwaarts and Hermes Oostende). The "new VGO" initially played in the regional amateur leagues until a local businessman started investing in the club. The club suddenly skyrocketed to the 4th national level and twice played the playoffs for promotion to the third level, only one level below KVO. Then the investor stopped the cashflow and VGO relegated back to the first regional amateur league, and then a second time in a row to the second provincial level. The new VGO has little fans but nonetheless, during their time in the Albertpark, were given one of both canteens in the stadium, the canteen where most working class KVO fans used to drink. This caused serious anger amongst KVO fans, who were already quite anti-VGO because they considered re-founding the club as a rejection of the newly formed KVO. When VGO moved into the stadium of KVO to groundshare and "stole" the beloved canteen, the hatred between KVO and VGO was going very intense again and still is today. Many KVO fans delight in the decay of the new VGO.
Rivalries exist with nearby teams such as Club Brugge, to a lesser extent Cercle Brugge, and also somewhat with KV Kortrijk and KSV Roeselare (all teams from the same province as KVO).
KVO at some point had a co-operation with Glasgow Celtic, who promised to send some promising talented players to Oostende to let them get experience in our team. I don't think they ever sent a single player for more than a few training days though. A co-operation with RC Lens of the French league never really got realised neither.
KVO fans do maintain friendship ties with Czech hockey club Pardubice (this is because one of KVO's long term fans lived there for a short while and kept in touch with his friends) ; he travels to the Czech Republic several times a year for hockey games (and lots of beer) and once a year a group of Czechs came to Oostende for a game. I think this tradition is still going although I am not entirely sure. One of the Czechs who travelled to KVO when I was still in Belgium was a girl named Zuzana, the most beautiful face and eyes I've ever seen in a football stadium. We lost that game 3-1 to Dessel Sport but all I can remember of that game was that face and those eyes. At some point some Danish tourists who spent a holiday at the Belgian coast attended a game and used the internet to stay updated about the club, I am unaware if they ever returned for a second game but they were surely making such plans. A friendship with AS Eupen (on the whole other edge of the country, Eupen lies near the German border and is a German-speaking club) developed last season. Some KVO fans travelled the nearly 400 km to Eupen a few times to support them in their (succesful) attempt to promote to the top division, and a group of Eupen fans have attended a few KVO games in second division the past year. A banner "Oostende Eupen United" could be seen behind the goal.
KVO is proud to host one of the most respected and best organised youth tournaments in Belgium, organised every Easter. The club's tournament has attracted participation of some top clubs from France, Holland and Germany. The tournament is so well respected that the Dutch giants Ajax agreed to play a friendly game in Oostende as a thankyou for letting their youth teams participate in the tournament. Unfortunately the mayor of Oostende forbid the game for security reasons when he found out a quite large group of Ajax fans were planning to travel from Amsterdam to Oostende for this game. For a club with not much cash like us, a friendly against Ajax could have been a sold-out stadium and lots of media attention, so let's just say the mayor of the city robbed KVO of a unique chance (but in Oostende, basketball has been the sport supported by the local city council ... the basketball club of Oostende is amongst the best in Belgium. This is very nice, but the consequence is that the city council prefers financially supporting the basketball club rather than investing in improving the football team)
KVO has about 6 official fan clubs. Most are in Oostende itself, with two being far out of the city: one based in Veurne near the French border, and one based in the province of Oost-Vlaanderen (with Ghent as capital city). A banner "KVO Fans Gent" can be seen often during games. We also have some fans living in the Vilvoorde-Mechelen area, but they have no organised fan club. The officially recognised fan clubs together form a supporters foundation who have frequent meetings to plan actions to promote atmosphere in the stadium and attract people to the games. The KVO fans overall are very friendly, the number of hooligans was simply zero during most of our existence, which made us very welcome at other clubs. Only in more recent years have a few fans misbehaved, but they have been sanctioned by the club. Overall, we still have one of the best behaved fanbases, although the number of fans sadly enough has decreased due to poor level of play and bad results for a few years. The club is however more or less debt-free, and is one of the only clubs in second division without financial problems. Its youth program is very good and about half of the team is made up of players from our own youth ranks.


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Communicating Science is a workshop organized by graduate students for graduate students focused on science communication skills. The workshop will emphasize written communication in particular and be held from Thursday, June 13, 2013 until Saturday, June 15, 2013 in Cambridge, MA. The workshop is intended for graduate students from all fields of science and engineering who are interested in learning how to effectively communicate their research to both scientific and non-scientific audiences.
The application deadline for the workshop closed on March 1st and all applicants have now been notified of admissions decisions. We received more than 700 applications for only 50 participant slots, so unfortunately many qualified applicants could not be accepted. Accepted applicants from outside the Boston area will receive full financial support for their travel and accommodations.
The 2.5 day workshop for 50 graduate students will feature panels by science and communications experts, writing workshops, and numerous opportunities to interact directly with the expert panelists. As part of the workshop, attendees will draft science compositions and receive feedback from the experts and other attendees.
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Investigators are putting together a timeline of Friday's shooting, beginning with Adam Lanza's allegedly shooting his mother while she slept before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
Updated at 7:34 p.m. ET: Adam Lanza, who authorities say killed 20 children and six women in Connecticut, shot his mother in the head multiple times before heading to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he fired hundreds of rounds and died with hundreds more at his disposal, police said Sunday.
It was an extraordinary amount of weaponry that Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance described Sunday. In addition to an assault-style rifle and at least two handguns, he also had a shotgun in reserve in the car he drove to the school.
And when he was found, Lanza, 20, still had "hundreds of rounds" of ammunition in multiple magazines, after having already fired hundreds of rounds inside the school, where he killed himself with a gunshot to the head as emergency crews arrived Friday.
An explanation still hasn't emerged for why Lanza killed the 26 people at Sandy Hook, but Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy opened a window for speculation when he told NBC News on Sunday that it appeared that Lanza attended the school as a youngster. Earlier reports that his mother, Nancy, may have taught there haven't borne out.
"He attended there — that's what I'm led to believe," Malloy said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
The children — 12 girls and eight boys, all of them 6 or 7 years old — were shot as many as 11 times, H. Wayne Carver, the state medical examiner, said Saturday. It appeared that Lanza had enough weapons and ammunition with him to have killed many, many more.
Police were analyzing the weaponry, along with a computer they found at the Lanzas' home, for possible leads on the gunman's motive, NBC News' Pete Williams reported.
Conn. shooting suspect Adam Lanza's father: 'We too are asking why'
Lanza's parents were divorced, and he lived with his mother, who home-schooled him for part of his childhood, Malloy said.
Connecticut school shooter was 'very nervous around people'
"He had a very troubled life," Malloy said. "He never seemed to be a good fit. ... It was a very difficult time for him and his mother."
Malloy declined to answer whether any documented evidence had been uncovered that Lanza might have been mentally disturbed. At Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, where he enrolled at about 16 in 2008, there was never any indication of trouble, the university said in a statement Sunday.
Lanza took six classes — including website production, data modeling, Philosophy 101 and ethical theory — and compiled a solid 3.26 grade-point average.
Investigators resolutely refused to go into detail about the timing of events Friday during official briefings. But investigators told NBC News that Lanza first killed his mother, an avid gun enthusiast, with her own gun and then took multiple weapons with him as he drove to the school in her car.
To bypass security, Lanza smashed in a window, they said. He shot and killed Principal Dawn Hochsprung, 47, and Mary Sherlach, 56, a school psychologist, before proceeding to a classroom, where he found the door locked.
So he moved on to a second classroom, where he killed everyone he found, before doing the same in a third classroom, investigators believe. He then shot himself.
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Although he was carrying three weapons, he used only one of them in all of the school killings — a Bushmaster .223-caliber assault-style rifle similar to the one used by the snipers who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in 2002. It was purchased legally, they said. He used one of the handguns to kill himself.
Authorities haven't said how Nancy Lanza stored the weapons.
Marsha Lanza, Nancy Lanza's sister-in-law and Adam Lanza's aunt, said there was a good reason for a divorced woman who grew up with guns to have them in the house: self-defense.
"She lived alone. She was a female (who) lived alone," Marsha Lanza said.
Chief Justice Correspondent Pete Williams and Isolde Raftery of NBC News contributed to this report.
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- Lives saved by teachers, custodian and even kids
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These brownie sandwich cookies are all kinds of yum.
And so tasty that I could have eaten them just like this.
Wait… I did do that.
I had to stop myself so I would have enough cookies left to take pictures of them doubled up for sweet little sandwiches.
That's right, I decided to pipe circles of vanilla buttercream on half of them…
And fill the centers with caramel.
Because caramel is the right thing to do.
I used my pink decorating bags to pipe the buttercream and love them!
Okay, time to make the sandwiches. Gently press the tops on to secure all that deliciousness in place.
They stack up so sweet.
And taste even sweeter with that hidden surprise of caramel inside. Soooo YUM!
Brownie Caramel Sandwich Cookies
Makes 12 sandwich cookies
12 oz dark chocolate (I used Guittard Bittersweet 74% Cacao)
7 tablespoons butter, salted
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 eggs
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees farenheit and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Place butter and 10 ounces of the chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Position the bowl over a pot of simmering water. Stir occasionally until the chocolate is melted and smooth. Set aside to cool.
- Chop remaining 2 ounces of chocolate into small pieces and set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour and baking powder and set aside.
- Mix sugar, eggs and vanilla in a stand mixer on medium high for about 8 minutes.
- Add melted chocolate to the sugar mixture and fold until combined.
- Then add flour and remaining chopped chocolate and stir until just combined and the flour has disappeared.
- Let rest for about five minutes and then scoop dough onto prepared baking sheet about three inches apart.
- Bake for 8 minutes.
Caramel Filling
1 cup sugar
6 tablespoons butter, salted
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- Heat sugar in a medium pot stirring constantly with a wire whisk. The sugar will turn clumpy and then melt before turning into a thick amber-colored liquid. As soon as this happens (Be careful not to allow the sugar to burn) immediately add butter, whisking until completely melted. Remove from heat and slowly add cream. Whisk until combined and smooth. Pour into a glass jar and set aside to cool and thicken. Note: This makes more than you'll need for the cookies, but you can store in the refrigerator up to two weeks and then reheat to use over ice cream or other treats.
12 tablespoons butter, salted
2 cups confectioner's sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon heavy whipping cream
- Using a mixer, beat butter until smooth and creamy. Slowly add confectioners' sugar and continue beating until combined. Add vanilla and heavy cream and mix until combined.
- Pipe buttercream circles on half of the brownie cookies. Fill the centers with thickened caramel and gently press remaining brownie cookies on top to sandwich.
UPDATE: A few of you have had problems with the recipe. Both variations worked well for me. Make sure to let the dough rest. And you can also chill the dough for about 15 minutes as well. If you're worried about them being too flat, follow the note below. Hope that helps! ~ xo Bakerella
Note: The photo below is of a second batch I made where the cookies came out a little more mounded. Just use a 1/2 cup of flour instead of 1/3 and 5 tablespoons of butter instead of 7 in the above recipe. They were good this way too, but the flatter cookies were tastier.


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While the forums are still running on Apache (note their on a sub-domain now) the main site is running on NodeJS. It has some snafu's, but some other things have been fixed. Most obviously missing is the front page. I will get to that soon. But, the game and bonus data is there. Will work on the front page and a fucking search feature soon!
Guys, the site has been moved to AWS. There's some hiccups (like http://www.gamengai.com pointing to my other project) but I will fix that. In fact, it's fixed (I think) but has to propagate.
Anywho, I'll leave the default theme up for a bit. I'll change it one day but probably not too soon. The idea is to get off of GoDaddy totally and avoid that cost. Then I can work on version 2 of the alerts.
I'm changing some stuff around so the forum sometimes is unavailable. But hey, at least some changes are coming.


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slang A more enthusiastic alternative to "yes." The number of A's and S's can vary. School is closed today? Yasss. Yaassss, pumpkin spice lattes are finally back at Starbucks!
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slang An expression of excitement and approval. The number of A's and S's can vary. Yasss queen! You look gorgeous!


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On this Day, 12 years ago …. The 'Pheonix Lights'.
Posted by dandare on March 13, 2009
As reported by the KTAR.com " Twelve years later, debate continues over 'Pheonix lights' " (posted 13th march, 2009). It mentions
" The lights were reported March 13, 1997, during a three-hour period, between 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. in a space of about 300 miles, from the Nevada-Arizona line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. There were two distinct events — a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over Arizona and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area " (extract from article).
Below i have added links and videos to this event: There were those that believe that the phenomena was of alien design, those who believed that they were military flares; others who believed they were a stealth blimp. Will we ever find out what they really were ?
For an interesting report on the Pheonix Lights please see NUFORC.org
" At approximately 6:55 p.m. (Pacific) on Thursday, March 13, 1997, a young man in Henderson, Nevada, reportedly witnessed a V-shaped object, with six large lights on its leading edge, approach his position from the northwest and pass overhead. In his subsequent written report to the National UFO Reporting Center, he described it as appearing to be quite large, approximately the "size of a (Boeing) 747", and said that it generated a sound which he equated to that of "rushing wind." It continued on a straight line toward the southeast and disappeared from his view over the horizon.
This sighting is perhaps the earliest of a complex series of events that would take place during the next 2-3 hours over the states of Nevada, Arizona, and possibly New Mexico, and which would quickly become known as the "Phoenix Lights" sightings. It involved sightings by tens, or perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of witnesses on the ground, and it gave rise to a storm of controversy over what had caused the event " (extract from article).
Also a very informative article entitled:
by Bruce Maccabee, originally posted Sept. 30, 1998; updated to March, 2002 can be seen here ….in which he believes they were flares?
one large article against flares and other usual suspects (ie swamp gas, meteors,ect) being the cause, is steve Lantz in "The Pheonix Lights…. Debunking the Debunkers".
Also see Wikipedia here , The Why Files here
and also UFO Evidence here for a wealth of links and information.
Please also see my archived posts on the pheonix lights (with videos) at:
(extract from december 2007 post )
To start off with, we have discovery channel's UFOs over Pheonix: Video analysts Examine a UFO sighting at:
(30'ish minutes long).
For the UFO seen at Pheonix in 2008 please see my post here
Please feel free to leave comments.
What do you believe was in the sky? do military flares answer the mystery? what else could it be?


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A week ago the ultrarunning community lost one of the first and one of the best.
This taken from the Enumclaw Courier Herald:
"Former Enumclaw resident Dr. David Terry, 47, died unexpectedly Sept. 13, 2009, at his home in Portland, Ore. He was born Nov. 12, 1961, in Seattle to Dr. Irvin Terry and Helene (Montcalm) Terry. He was the third of four brothers and one sister. In 1971, the family moved to Enumclaw, where he graduated from high school in 1980.
Following a year taken to pursue his passion of ski racing full-time, he entered Colorado College and graduated with a pre-med degree in 1986. He graduated from St. Louis Medical School in 1990. Following a three-year radiology residency in Chicago, he moved to Portland in 1995 to take a teaching fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University and then took a full-time position at the veterans hospital in Portland where he worked as a radiologist until his death.
He was an accomplished ultra/trail runner. He finished the Western States 100-mile Endurance Run 10 times in less than 24 hours, placing as high as fifth one year. He was a 10-time finisher at the Wasatch 100, finishing as high as third, and a two-time finisher of the Hard Rock 100.
He was an accomplished writer, poet, gardener and gourmet cook. He was passionate about the outdoors which strengthened his spirit and gave him peace. Friends were extremely important to Dave and he maintained close contact with his network throughout the country.
He is survived by his mother Helene and brothers Paul and Lawrence, all of Enumclaw; brother Irvin and wife Kate of Lynnwood, Wash., and sister Frances and husband David of Whitefish, Mont.
Friends and family are welcome to funeral services at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 1614 Farrelly St. in Enumclaw."
Dr. Dave Terry was an icon of the ultrarunning sport. Selflessly assisting those in need. Whether it be advice and consultations on an injury or motivation needed for the next climb. Dave was always there; quite frankly, he loved the sport and the people who gravitated towards it. He left behind a legacy and will always be remembered. Run on good friend!
Another of Dave's friends, Craig Thornley, shares more over at his blog site.
Sean Meissner shares is memories of Dave here.
Andy Jones-Wilkins' good words on Dave can be found on his blog here.
Krissy Moehl shares her's here.


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Just a quick post to share a couple of events we attended during Lexie's days as an elephant performer or was she a performer as an elephant? I wanted to make sure everyone knows that I wasn't a stage mom forcing Lexie to dance and not giving her any rewards for her amazing performances as the second to last elephant on parade! After her first fantastic performance (watch for her name during Oscar nomination time) we celebrated by going down to the local festival and riding a pony - see the happy cowgirl above, going in the bouncy thing and listening to a local band while Lexie played at her favorite ocean side playground.
Then the next day after her second performance we made it to the "Fathoms of Fun" parade. I discovered that Lexie LOOOOOOVES parades. In the picture above you'll see us waiting for the parade. A nice man and his granddaughter where selling these "princess crowns" as my royalty expert called them so of course Princess Lexie Lou had to have one. Once it was on her head my shy, reserved, introverted daughter decide she should practice her dancing with her princess crown on for the crowd.
*No child was forced to dance during the taking of these pictures & video*


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Hayley sings at the Rugby World Cup Final 23 Oct 2011 (video)
Hayley Westenra sang the National Anthem of New Zealand God Defend New Zealand before the start of the final of the Rugby World Cup 2011, as previously reported in our story of 9th August.
Hayley also sang World In Union before the start, and she sang again, after the match and including Now Is The Hour. The All Blacks won by a score of 8 points to 7 against France.
The final took place at Eden Park, Auckland on Sunday 23 October, kick off at 9pm local time and Will Martin sang the National Anthem of France.
You can watch Hayley's performance of God Defend New Zealand below.
VIDEO: God Defend New Zealand - Hayley Westenra
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New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick spoke out Wednesday about the letter he sent to President-elect Donald Trump.
Belichick told the media on Wednesday that he wrote the letter to Trump out of friendship, and said his comments weren't politically motivated.
Trump announced that Belichick had sent him a letter endorsing his candidacy at a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Monday night.
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"Our friendship goes back many years and I think that anyone who has spent more than five minutes with me knows I'm not a political person," Belichick said Wednesday. He added that he considers Secretary of State John Kerry a friend as well.
"To me, friendship and loyalty is just about that. It's not about political or religious views. I write hundreds of letters and notes every month. Doesn't mean that I agree with every single thing that every person thinks about, politics, religion or other subjects, but I have multiple friendships that are important to me, and that's what that was about," he said.
When asked follow up questions about Trump by reporters, Belichick repeatedly replied with only the one-word answer "Seattle," a reference to the team the Patriots are playing on Sunday night.
Quarterback Tom Brady also spoke Wednesday morning about Sunday night's game against the Seahawks and touched briefly on Trump.
When asked if he gave permission to Trump to talk about his support, Brady said he wanted to focus on football. Brady never confirmed if he voted for Trump.
"I"m just going to talk about football this week," he said.
He added that his wife - the supermodel Gisele - said that he should refrain from talking about politics anymore, and he thinks that's the right decision for his family.
Brady also spoke of the level of support Trump has shown the Patriots over the years.
"He's been to a lot of games over the years and been in our locker room a lot, certainly at some of our bigger games, even going up against the Jets and stuff like that," he said. "That was long before he was ever a politician. Like I said, you develop relationships with a lot of different people, and I've certainly come in contact with a lot of different people over the years. Some become your friends and you keep in touch with (them), and some you don't."