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PINE JUNCTION, Colo. (WPEC) - Two men were caught on camera savagely beating a father at a restaurant in Colorado while he was holding his 4-year-old daughter.
Video of the beating is now being shared on Facebook in an effort to identify and arrest one of the attackers.
Deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office say the attack happened last month at Crossroads Pizza & Wings Bar in Pine Junction.
In the video, a man with his 4-year-old daughter in his arms starts to have words with a man. Others rush over to separate the two when another man walks up and hits the father in the face. The father raises a fist when the suspect hits him again. The two start pushing and shoving as a third man walks up behind the father and punches him in the face. The suspect starts hitting the father over and over as a person pulls the young girl out of the father's arms. The father gets decked to the ground with another punch. The two attackers continue to punch and kick the father while he's on the ground. The father stumbles to his knees when one of the men knocks him down with a knee to the face.
The attack left the father with serious injuries. According to the sheriff's office, he had to be airlifted to a hospital. The little girl was not hurt.
Deputies arrested one man. He's been identified as 31-year-old Joel Michael Wilson. After sharing the video, deputies arrested a second suspect, identified as 22-year-old Devon Lee Premer. He is being held on a $50,000 bond at the Jefferson County Jail on charges of first degree assault, second degree assault and child abuse.
The father, identified as 39-year-old Richard Warry Brown, faces a summons for misdemeanor child abuse because of his daughter getting caught in the middle of the confrontation.
The sheriff's office says the victim doesn't remember what sparked the fight. The suspect in custody and witnesses are not cooperating with investigators as well.
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Kate Beckinsale in Vancouver
She was here for a day, flew in for wardrobe and screen testing, and left back for Los Angeles late afternoon Wednesday. Underworld 4 begins shooting soon.
While in town, Kate was spotted at dinner at Joe Fortes. Am told Timothy Busfield and Jorge Garcia, aka Hurley, were there too that night. Random. Apparently Kate ate healthy so… like steamed fish and vegetables? Well, look at her ass in those black pants. It's just that discipline is so hard.
Before we left Sundance yesterday, Dylan and I made a new bet. We bet on every trip. I just lost $100 to him because he was able to not drink for 3 out of the 7 nights we were there. Believe me, most people who know Dylan would have a hard time believing this. Anyway, he says he can lose ten pounds and get rid of some of the fluff on his face by the time we go to LA at the end of February. Another hundred on the line. Well, maybe if he had Kate's discipline. There is no way Kate goes to bed after a beer. And she won't be going near beer at all through the duration of this production. Underworld 4 will be in 3D. In other words, that sh-t will be as tight and as lean as you've ever seen it…which is something Garrett Hedlund should have thought about for TRON.
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Anna Nicole Smith suffered from pain most of her life, a doctor testified Wednesday, saying he treated her with prescription drugs to alleviate her chronic pain syndrome even though he considered her an addict.
"People with substance abuse disorders have the right to pain relief," said Dr. Victor Kovner, who treated Smith for three years before he sold his practice to Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, a defendant in the drug conspiracy case.
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Kovner said Smith had a substance abuse disorder so severe, "she could become addicted to Jello." Treating her was a challenge, he said.
"Did you perceive her to be an addict?" Deputy District Attorney Renee Rose asked the physician.
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"Yes. I believe she had addictive behaviors, but it was controlled," Kovner replied.
Kapoor, Dr. Khristine Eroshovich and Smith's boyfriend-lawyer Howard K. Stern have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to provide Smith with excessive drugs and to prescribing to an addict. They are not charged with causing her 2007 death from a drug overdose.
Kovner said he thought Stern cared for Smith.
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"He was very responsible regarding her medications," the doctor said. "He was concerned about her overusing."
Kovner said Smith told him when they met in 2001 that she was an addict and had been treated at the Betty Ford Center for addictions to Vicodin and alcohol.
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Kovner later learned she had suffered from migraines and seizures as a child. She also reported pain in her back, arm and intestinal area.
After failing to find a physical cause for the pain, Kovner said he concluded Smith suffered from chronic pain syndrome and treated her with Methadone, Xanax and other drugs.
Kovner said Smith took prescription drugs for physical and emotional relief. Some of the medications he prescribed were for anxiety and depression, he added.
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And Sarah died in Kiryan Arba – which is Chevron – in the Land of Cana'an. And Avraham came to eulogize Sarah and to cry for her. (Sefer Beresheit 23:2)
1. Avraham's response to Sarah's death
Parshat Chayey Sarah begins with the death of our first Matriarch Sarah. The Torah tells us that Sarah died in Chevron. Avraham was not with Sarah at the time of her death. Avraham returned to Chevron to bury his beloved wife and to mourn her. The above passage describes two elements of mourning. Avraham cried over her and he eulogized her. Shulchan Aruch describes the requirements of the eulogy. The eulogy focuses upon the positive characteristics of the departed and should evoke the tears of the listeners. According to this interpretation, it seems that Avraham's two responses are actually two elements of a single response. He cried over his loss and he gave verbal form to his anguish through his eulogy.
Rabbaynu Ovadia Sforno explains – based upon the comments of the Talmud[1] – that the eulogy is intended to honor the departed.[2] This comment seems to be self-evident. What alternative purpose could be attributed to the eulogy? What point is Sforno making with his comment?
Apparently, Sforno's intention is to distinguish between Avraham's crying over his beloved's death and his eulogizing of Sarah. The comments of the Talmud that Sforno quotes make the point that the eulogy honors the departed. Unlike the mourner's crying which is an expression of personal grief and pain, the eulogy honors the departed by identifying and extolling his or her character and virtues. Avraham's crying was an expression of his own loss and the pain he was experiencing. He was deprived of his partner – his beloved, precious, beautiful Sarah. His eulogy honored Sarah by describing Sarah's character, her greatness, her righteousness, her love of Hashem.
Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik Zt"l expands on the distinction suggested by Sforno. Before considering his comments on this issue, it will be helpful to consider more carefully the relationship between Avraham and Sarah.
And the Lord said to Avraham: Sari your wife – do not call her by the name Sari because Sarah is her name. I will bless her and I will also give you a son from her. And I will bless her and she will be (the progenitor) of nations. Kings of nations will descend from her. (Sefer Beresheit 17:15-16)
2. Sarah and Avraham's partnership in the covenant
Hashem's covenant with Bnai Yisrael was first communicated to Avraham. Rav Soloveitchik notes that it is clear from the Torah that the covenantal relationship between Hashem and Bnai Yisrael did not begin with Avraham. Instead, it began with Avraham and Sarah. In the covenantal relationship Hashem was one party and the other party was Avraham and Sarah as a couple or unit. This is expressed in the above passages. Hashem tells Avraham that his name has been changed. He will no longer be called Avram; henceforth he will be called Avraham. This new name reflects the covenant. Hashem then reveals to Avraham that Sarah's name has also been changed. No longer will she be Sari; henceforth she shall be Sarah. In other words, the covenantal relationship was expressed through both receiving new names reflective of the relationship.
Rav Soloveitchik points out that Parshat Chayey Sarah reinforces this lesson. Avraham lived for fifty years after Sarah's death. Yet, with Sarah's death, Avraham fades from the Torah's narrative. He is no longer the central figure. Instead this role is assumed by his son Yitzchak and Yitzchak's wife Rivka. Avraham and Sarah together were Hashem's covenantal partners. With Sarah's death, this covenantal role passed from Sarah and Avraham to Rivka and Yitzchak.
3. Avraham's response – personal tragedy and communal loss
Based upon this analysis, Rav Soloveitchik explains the distinction between the mourner's crying and his eulogizing of the departed. As Sforno implies, the mourner's cries are an expression of the pain of personal loss. His cries are a verbalization of unrepressible sorrow and grief. The eulogy extols the character and virtues of the departed. Sforno explains that the eulogy honors the departed. However, it must be noted that the eulogy accomplishes its goal by objectifying the loss. Once objectified, the loss can no longer be viewed as merely a personal tragedy for the mourner. The eulogy transforms the loss into an objective misfortune. It is not merely the subjective, personal experience of the mourner. It is the objective misfortune of the community that has been deprived of a precious member.
Avraham cried over Sarah and he eulogized her. Avraham's eulogy of Sarah was not merely the verbalization of his crying – his personal anguish and despair. It was the objectification of the loss – a description of Sarah's greatness. Avraham described the Sarah's character, her virtues, and her role in welcoming others into their community of service to Hashem. Through this eulogy, the entire community was included in mourning of the loss of the Matriarch.[3]
4. Death and spilling water
Rav Soloveitchik's insight provides an explanation for an interesting practice that is described by Shulchan Aruch. In order to understand this practice, one must recognize that in earlier eras people generally passed away in their homes. Also, homes in earlier times did not have plumbing. Instead water was supplied to the home from wells. Water was drawn from a well and stored in the home for use when needed. Shulchan Aruch explains that when a person passes away, the water stored in the home in which the person died and the water stored in the adjacent homes should be spilled out.[4] Shulchan Aruch does not provide an explanation for this seemingly strange practice. However, other authorities do discuss the practice, its origin, and meaning.
And Bnai Yisrael – all of the assembly – came to the wilderness of Tzin in the first month. The nation dwelled there and Miryam died there and she was buried there. And there was no water for the assembly. And they gathered against Moshe and Aharon. (Sefer BeMidbar 20:1-2)
5. Miryam's death and its impact
Aruch HaShulchan relates the practice to the above passages. These passages discuss the death of Miryam and the subsequent events. Miryam was Moshe's sister and a prophetess. The Torah explains that after Miryam passed away the nation found itself without any supply of water. The juxtaposition of Miryam's death with the absence of water suggests a connection between these two events. Rashi quotes the explanation of our Sages. During the nation's journey through the wilderness, it was miraculously provided with water. The nation's wondrous supply of water was a reward for Miryam's righteousness. With her passing, this miracle was suspended and the nation had no water.[5] Aruch HaShulchan suggests that the Shulchan Aruch's practice makes reference to this incident. It reminds us of Miryam's righteousness and that through her merit the nation was provided with water.[6]
Aruch HaShulcan's explanation of the practice requires examination. Certainly, Miryam's righteousness is worthy of recognition. Also, we perform various mitzvot that recall the miracles that sustained Bnai Yisrael in the wilderness. However, the death of a person seems to be a very odd occasion upon which to recall Miryam and the miracle of water in the wilderness.
In order to understand Aruch HaShulcan's comments, the above passages must be reconsidered. These passages communicate that Miryam had an enormous impact upon the nation. Through her merit, the nation was provided with water. Perhaps, during her lifetime, Miryam was even taken for granted. However, with her passing, her huge impact became evident. Suddenly, there was no water. If the people had not previously appreciated Miryam's righteousness, now they certainly were very aware of her impact.
6. Every member contributed to the community
It is an error to conclude that Miryam was unique insofar as she impacted her community. A community is a collective of individuals. Each contributes his or her talents, energies, and gifts to the whole. Miryam's contribution became very evident with her passing. However, every person – like Miryam – contributes to the welfare and wellbeing of the community. Therefore, the death of any individual member is a tragic loss for the entire community.
Rav Soloveitchik's insight suggests that the practices of mourning be evaluated from the perspective of two paradigms. Mourning is an expression of personal pain and grief. It also focuses upon the loss to the community. According to Aruch HaShulchan, the pouring out of the water is an expression of our recognition of the community's loss. How does the practice communicate this message?
Aruch HaShulchan is not suggesting that we empty the water from the home of the departed and the surrounding homes simply to recall Miryam and her righteousness. Instead, he is suggesting that this practice is intended to communicate an analogy between the death of the recently departed and the death of the prophetess Miryam. In Miryam's instance, the loss to the community was obvious; suddenly there was no water. Not every person's contribution to the community is as profound or obvious as Miryam's. Yet, the practice of spilling the water declares that the death of any member of the community is analogous to Miryam's passing. The community has lost a member and is deprived of this member's unique contribution to the collective wellbeing.
1. Mesechet Sanhadrin 46b.
2. Rabbaynu Ovadia Sforno, Commentary on Sefer Beresheit, 23:2.
3. Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, Recorded Lecture on Parshat Chayey Sarah, BCBM.org, 1973.
4. Rav Yosef Karo, Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah, 339:4.
5. Rabbaynu Shlomo ben Yitzchak (Rashi), Commentary on Sefer BeMidbar 20:2.
6. Rav Aharon HaLeyve Epstein, Aruch HaShulchan, Yoreh De'ah 339:9.


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UFC heavyweight Dave Herman has passed a required pre-fight drug test, gaining approval to fight Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 162 on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
The fight is part of the UFC 162 preliminary bouts scheduled to air on the FX network.
Herman was required to go before the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Friday to plead his case to gain approval for a license to fight at Saturday's event. He has twice failed drug tests for marijuana in the past, and the commission had concerns about his participation at UFC 162.
After assuring the commission that he could pass a drug test on the spot, the NSAC said it would issue Herman a one-fight license to compete at UFC 162, but the license would be contingent upon him passing an immediate drug test.
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1. What sport(s) did you play at Lipscomb? What years? Who were your coaches?
"I played both women's basketball and tennis from 1982-86. Trish Duty and Ann Duncan were my tennis coaches. Frank Bennett was my basketball coach.â€
2. What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"Playing two sports for four years was a pretty cool feat. Honestly, that is my fondest memory. When I hear my students complain about how much homework they've got I usually don't listen to them. I tell them I played two sports in college and I handled them just fine.
"I do remember coach Bennett making a lot of U-turns every time we would go somewhere. We just go used to it.â€
3. Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
"Athletically, my Dad, Paul Burgess always had the biggest influence on me. He was not only supportive, but he was also a teacher. He helped me become who I am as an athlete.
"He would take me down to the tennis court when I was eight. He taught me golf when I was 14. He taught me how to work on my basketball shot when I was just a little squirt.â€
4. What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
"The best part of going to a place like Lipscomb is being around like-minded, Christian people. Going to activities and forming friendships with those types of people helped make me who I am today.â€
5. What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"Time management and being organized. When you play two sports you have no choice.
"I had some great teammates. I am still close to them. It is what coach Bennett called `life-long' teammates. When you come back for reunions or see them the bond is still there.
"Another thing I learned was to always be positive. When you are around good programs you become a better person. To this day when I see a piece of paper on the floor that I didn't thrown down there I pick it up. I say `please' and `thank you'.
"I treat people with respect. I honor my elders. Those are the types of things that Lipscomb teaches you. Your parents reinforce those things, but it is a great environment.â€
6. Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"I definitely liked Dot Eubanks for typing and shorthand. I also liked Patti Dugger. I remember writing a 50-page paper for her. It is amazing how fast I can type.â€
7. Where do you live now?
"I live in Goodlettsville, Tenn.â€
8. Who is your employer? What is your occupation? What does your position entail?
"Hume-Fogg is an awesome school. I teach honors Algebra I and Algebra II.â€
9. Tell us about your family.
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by Lou Mancinelli
At the callow age of 15, local restaurateur, financier, real estate developer, world traveler and former short-time filmmaker Tom Richter had already, after one summer of work, gone from being a packing boy to running a tie factory in Upper Darby.
Richter, now 56, was raised in a Lower Merion mansion across the street from the legendary, just-moved Barnes Foundation behind St. Joseph's University, off City Line Avenue at the border of the city and Western Montgomery County. He must have observed something in the hard-working character of the workers who maintained his parents' home. After all, he was the one who talked with the men and women who cooked the dinners and cut the lawns, the masons, electricians and plumbers.
"I knew where every pipe and electrical line in that house was," said Richter during a recent lunchtime interview at Isabella, his Conshohocken restaurant. "Years later, I felt right at home buying rental properties and fixing them up. I was always the one dealing with the people at the house. These were real salt of the earth people."
Over the years, Richter has renovated numerous old mansions along the Main Line and converted them into "storybook apartments." In addition to his Girard Finance Company and a water ice business in Puerto Rico, he's opened up a day spa in Nepal and a floating bagel and chai shop in Dal Lake, Northern India.
Among other creative business concepts, Tom was once earning $100 a day arranging for tourists to ride with certain eager Bangkok cabdrivers who kicked back a piece of the money. Shop owners would pay the cabbies to bring tourists into their shops. While in Thailand, Richter appeared as an extra in the film "The Deerhunter" as a soldier during a scene along the River Kwai with the same gang of tourists he organized for the cabbies.
Tom will also never forget an encounter with a Chinese doctor in Kathmandu, Nepal, who detected his heart irregularities using a wooden stethoscope? And the case of malaria he caught while working on a Malaysian banana plantation in 1978 that was allegedly cured by a woman's rhinoceros horn water and a Filipino witch doctor's crushed flowers.
He might have been privileged to have these rare experiences, but Richter has always earned his way, whether through sweat or imagination. In school, while his friends flipped burgers or drank beer all summer, he put in 75 hours a week at The Happy Tie Company (eventually bought by Ralph Lauren in 1976).
During the school year, he worked a few hours a night after school. Eventually, he had a friend use the money Richter had saved to buy his first motorcycle, a Yamaha 100, because Richter was too young to put the bike in his own name.
After graduating from Episcopal Academy, where he founded groups like the ecology club and workmen's service, and won awards for sculpture and the glee club, the son of top Philadelphia negligence lawyer B. Nathaniel Richter headed to the University of Miami. He wanted to spend more time with his father, who was by then retired and spending his winters in the sun.
But when Tom went to Miami in 1974, his father died. With his mother in the Fiji Islands and his sister studying at Tufts University in Boston, he returned to Philadelphia to handle the funeral arrangements. In the winter, he stayed in town and enrolled at St. Joseph's University, the only school that would accept him so late.
As usual, though, Tom got restless and left St. Joe's in 1976 after two-and-a-half years, moving to Los Angeles just long enough to earn some money to go to Indonesia. In Santa Monica, he started making films for local bands and then was hired in 1978 by Northwest Orient Airlines to shoot a promotional film about traveling to Tokyo. One part of his pay was travel fare.
After six weeks in Tokyo, he used his free one-time ticket to anywhere to get to Bangkok, where he checked into a "freak hotel." It was there that he organized the taxi trips and appeared in "The Deerhunter."
After eight weeks in Thailand, Richter went south to the Cameroon Islands in Malaysia. It was while working on the butterfly plantation he started getting tropical ulcers, lost his hearing in one ear and went to see a British doctor. The doctor told him he had malaria. He would have to go home. On the way back to his camp to grab his bags he passed out on the side of the road. That's when the plantation manager, a Filipino who considered himself a witch doctor, found Richter and applied his crushed flowers. When Richter returned to the British doctor, whatever the flowers and rhinoceros horn water given to him by a woman did to his body, the doctor found no trace of malaria.
So on he went along the Arabian seaside and up the Indian coast to Bombay, where he caught pneumonia but carried on. Then he crossed the Great Indian Desert and visited Jaipur, Kashmir, saw Ravi Shankar perform in a mysterious tent in the desert and crossed into Nepal by 1979.
In Kathmandu, Richter realized tired hikers who came out from excursions in the Himalayan Mountains had nowhere to take hot showers and refresh themselves. His answer was a day spa. The spa was days away from opening when one night, Richter awoke from a strange dream and went home.
"I woke up in the middle of the night because I had a dream that I had to go back to Philly," said Richter. It turned out, the reason Richter returned home was that his mother had been ignoring all of her mail. He took the pile of unopened envelopes and read them one by one. What he found was his mother was being fined $1,000 a day for a major rat infestation problem at a Wayne property his father bought years ago, the former Hires Root Beer estate. No one had lived at the home for decades. It was infested with thousands of rats. The property was in jeopardy of being taken from the family.
Today, that property is one he still owns and has developed into a 200,000-square-foot office park. If the township approves his plan for a detention basin, Richter claims he can improve the local storm-water runoff issues in Wayne.
After handling the situation local newspapers called "Richter's Rat Ranch," Richter started a finance business in 1982 with a friend he'd known for 15 years. Five years later, the two split, and Richter started Girard Finance Company. With Girard, Richter finances taverns, many of them in hard struggling areas like corner locations in North Philadelphia.
It's not like Richter needs the money. When he contracted 30 tourists he met staying in his freak hotel in Bangkok as extras in "The Deer Hunter," the producers paid him $50 a day for each extra. Richter paid each extra $20 and pocketed the rest. "It's the cost of doing business," he explained. (The movie won "Best Picture of the Year" Oscar.)
Today, in addition to running his finance company and Isabella, Richter focuses on rehabbing old buildings and turning around struggling restaurants, like Coyote Crossing and the 401 Diner in Conshohocken.
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It's not that rare an occurrence in Nashville, where some of music's top stars frequently perform unannounced.
Last month, for example, Kid Rock played the Ryman Auditorium as part of his CARE charity tour. On short notice, he was invited to be part of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge's 51st birthday celebration.
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The Obama administration will send military, intelligence and law enforcement advisors to Nigeria to help the beleaguered government find and rescue more than 270 teenage girls who were abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group last month, the White House said Tuesday.
The team will share U.S. intelligence and provide investigative help, not military force, in the search for the students, who were kidnapped April 14 from a rural high school in Nigeria's Muslim-dominated northeast.
The deployment will mark the first public American assistance in a case that has sparked international outrage. The U.S. announcement came after the leader of Boko Haram vowed in a video to sell the girls as slaves, and after gunmen reportedly took at least eight more girls from another village overnight.
President Obama spoke out on the abductions for the first time Tuesday, calling them "heartbreaking" and "outrageous."
"You've got one of the worst regional or local terrorist organizations in Boko Haram in Nigeria," he told ABC News. Obama said the Islamist group had been "killing people ruthlessly for many years now" and that the mass abduction of the students might help "mobilize the entire international community to finally do something against this horrendous organization."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the United States was not considering providing military resources "at this point" to help battle Boko Haram, which the State Department listed last year as a terrorist organization.
The Times reported in March, however, that U.S. troops were helping the Nigerian army establish a special operations command to combat the group. U.S. and French air forces fly unarmed Reaper surveillance drones over northern Nigeria, from Niamey in neighboring Niger, to collect intelligence. The U.S. also has stepped up efforts in North Africa against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and in East Africa, against the Shabab.
The abduction has embarrassed oil-rich Nigeria, which will host the World Economic Forum on Africa in the capital, Abuja, beginning Wednesday. President Goodluck Jonathan, who has faced angry protests over the government's inability to find the girls, requested help Sunday from the U.S., Britain, France and China.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry told reporters at the State Department that he had spoken with Jonathan on Tuesday and that the Nigerian leader had accepted the American offer.
Kerry said the U.S. Embassy in Abuja was prepared to form a "coordination cell that could provide expertise on intelligence, investigations and hostage negotiations, and to help facilitate information-sharing and victim assistance."
"We remain deeply concerned about the welfare of these young girls, and we want to provide whatever assistance is possible in order to help for their safe return to their families," Kerry said.
On Capitol Hill, all 20 women in the Senate signed a letter asking Obama to pressure the United Nations Security Council to acknowledge Boko Haram's ties to Al Qaeda and to ask the U.N. to consider international sanctions. The group has already been cut off from U.S. financial institutions.
"These girls were captured and kidnapped 22 days ago, and time is of the essence," Carney said. "Appropriate action must be taken to locate and to free these young women before they are trafficked or killed."
Boko Haram's shadowy leader, Abubakar Shekau, has a $7-million U.S. bounty on his head. He said in a video that surfaced Monday that God had commanded him to sell women in the market, adding that girls should marry, not go to school.
An April report by the International Crisis Group think tank said Boko Haram "has grown more ruthless, violent and destructive" since Shekau became leader in 2009. The group's fighters are dispersed in northeastern Nigeria and in nearby Cameroon and Niger.
The sect opposes secular education and Western culture and says Nigerian schools are turning young people away from Islam. Its name translates from the Hausa language as "Western education is a sin," and the group is bitterly opposed to democracy.
The group, modeled on Afghanistan's extremist Taliban movement, mounted an insurgency in northern Nigeria in the early 2000s, targeting symbols of government authority such as military barracks, police stations and politicians.
But it switched to civilian targets in recent years, leaving the country's north in military lockdown. The group is blamed for attacking churches, a bus station, school dormitories and villages. In February, gunmen believed to be linked to Boko Haram killed dozens of students at a school in Yobe state, slitting the throats of some and locking others in dormitories that were then set ablaze.
Despite staging major assaults that left hundreds dead in two towns, Boko Haram gained widespread international notice only after last month's mass abduction of the schoolgirls.
Fear of further attacks has led to the shuttering of schools in the region. The abducted girls had gathered from many district schools so they could take exams, but the gunmen easily overpowered two security guards, forced the girls onto trucks and drove them into the forest.
In November, Human Rights Watch accused Boko Haram of abducting scores of women and girls, some as young as 12, to traffic them as sex slaves or to force them to become combatants.
"Witnesses described Boko Haram laying siege to towns, villages and highways; looting and burning houses, shops and vehicles; and executing and decapitating people," the report said. The militants particularly targeted members of civilian vigilante groups that have sprung up in response.
Shekau took over as leader after Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed while in Nigerian police custody in 2009.
Described as a religious zealot of few words, Shekau occasionally releases video statements that appear designed to terrorize the country's fearful northern population.
"I enjoy killing anyone that God commands me to kill, the way I enjoy killing chickens and rams," he said in a video released in 2012 after an assault on the city of Kano left at least 180 people dead, many of them military men and their families.
Parsons reported from Washington and Dixon from Johannesburg, South Africa.


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As I mentioned over the weekend, Michael Gee is the latest casualty of the Herald cost-cutting. Mr Gee emailed me this morning, requesting a little space to say goodbye to his colleagues in the media as well as the readers of the Herald:
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Hi! Since as a matter of honor I will not enter a press box nor attend any event open to the media without getting paid for my time, Bruce has more than graciously allowed me to say au revoir to people I may not encounter for awhile, but who do frequent this web site.
To the non-Herald media corps: Gang, I couldn't think of a better group of folks with whom to go to work. See you around the campus.
To the Herald sports staff: I loved being on your team, and will always be proud of the team. My very best wishes and good luck. You'll need plenty.
To Boston sports readers: I'll miss you most of all. As I once told Bruce, what makes working here fun isn't that it's a great sports town, it's that Boston is full of people who love sports AND love to read. Imagine a website sustained by those who care enough about sportswriters to hold us accountable-or at least to kick the crap out of us. What a tribute!
I hope I'll be able to re-enter your lives before too long. I also hope I'm not ringing your doorbell clad in a Domino's hat when that happens.
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Assassins don't trigger Dracul's piety loss on undead kill if they kill a lower level undead. They do trigger piety gain for kills on lower level monsters though.
If this bug is somehow related to a specific dungeon I don't know, but it's the dungeon with the Halfling Wizard, Sorcerer and Bloodmage quest that unlocks the Witchalok Pendant. (Sorry, I forgot the exact name of the dungeon)


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Lenovo's at the Top of the PC Heap - but the Ground Is Shaking
Oct 18, 2012 5:00 AM PT
The global PC market has a new leader. Lenovo has quietly been fighting and winning and is now officially No.1 in the PC industry, edging out HP. You would think things look great for Lenovo. This is a big victory, right?
The problem is the traditional PC industry is transforming itself. Can Lenovo remain No. 1 with smartphones and tablet computers changing and expanding this business?
My Pick of the Week is C Spire Wireless' launch of the next phase of Newslink, which delivers personalized news to each customer. Pretty cool.
More Slices of Pie
Ten years ago, if you said the name "Lenovo," I am not sure how much of an impression it would make. Several years ago, however, Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer business and started to grow rapidly. Suddenly it was on the radar.
I have been a Thinkpad user for more than 20 years, and I can tell you that all the changes in recent years have not been good. As a customer, I have had my share of issues since the Lenovo acquisition, but the company has been on a strong growth trajectory, and from an investor perspective, that is very good.
Last week, Gartner ranked Lenovo as No. 1 in the PC industry. Based on worldwide shipments, IDC had HP clinging to the top spot -- but by less than 0.5 percent.
Either way, Lenovo seems to be on the rapid growth side of the wave I frequently discuss, while HP is on the falling side. So congratulations to Lenovo on attaining this amazing goal.
However, during the last few years, the PC business has started a significant and long-term transformation. The PC business is no longer just about desktops and notebooks. It's expanded, and today it's also about tablets, smartphones, ultra-portables, smart TVs, cloud computing, and other industry reshaping trends.
The traditional PC business seems to be slumping right now -- however, pull the camera back and you can see a rapidly growing larger industry. What is happening is simple. The PC industry started with desktops. It was one big slice. Next came notebooks and laptops -- another slice.
Today there are so many new slices. New products are reshaping the industry, and more are coming. So, can Lenovo hang on to the lead in this expanded industry? That is the question. We are not moving away from traditional computers, but we have created another few segments in the computer business -- more slices to the pie.
Each slice will be smaller, but customers will buy multiple devices from multiple slices, so the marketplace will actually increase. This same effect is occurring in other industries as well. Yesterday you may have had a laptop, but tomorrow you will also have a smartphone, tablet, cloud services, smart TVs and more.
A Slippery Spot
This is a huge and new opportunity -- not only for Lenovo, but also for every other company in the space, plus new ones. Microsoft wants to lead with Windows 8. Intel wants to lead with its chips. Hardware makers like Toshiba, Dell, HP, Asus and many others are in the mix. Apple, Google, Samsung and more will play a defining role in this changing industry.
As you can see, there is enormous opportunity and enormous risk as well for all industry players. So don't be fooled by changing numbers and new segments. People still love their Thinkpads and desktops to do lots of real work. However, new devices like tablets and smartphones can fill other needs even better.
The good news for customers is that since PCs are slumping right now, they are a bargain. The PC market has shrunk by roughly 8 percent in the third quarter. So as the industry reinvents and re-sizes itself, consumers win. Imagine a Thinkpad for just a bit over US$500. Amazing.
The traditional PC business is facing extraordinary pressures. I think the downturn will continue for a while, but then it will level off as the industry finds its new balance. With all this change in the air, Lenovo should be very happy with its performance to date -- and at the same time, very worried about the changing marketplace.
Some computer makers will win, and others will lose. The list of winners and losers will shift in the next few years. Lenovo Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing seems to understand that challenge.
Becoming the clear leader in global PC of course remains one of Lenovo's aspirations, he said, but it alsorepresents just one more milestone in its journey as a company. Its mission is to become the leader in PCs, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, cloud computing and enterprise IT.
Yuanqing seems to have a good view of industry changes. That is exactly how companies like Lenovo need to think.
Companies like HP were always Lenovo competitors, but now the competition has expanded to include companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, Motorola and more. As RIM and Nokia have learned the hard way, these companies don't play games.
Remember, the industry is not only expanding, but also reinventing itself. This disruption means leadership could change in the industry.
David Roman, chief marketing officer of Lenovo, called its upcoming product release the single largest marketing launch the company has ever done. That's great for now, but how the company is preparing for new competition is the bigger question. So congratulations to Lenovo for winning the No. 1 spot, but that is just step one of a multistep process.
Who will be No. 1 going forward, as the industry continues to transform? This is the question we all want an answer to.
My Pick of the Week is C Spire Wireless' launch of the next phase of Newslink, which delivers personalized news to each customer.
What matters to each customer is different. Newslink learns what each customer wants. It delivers personalized news stories directly to customers' computers, tablets and smartphones. Pretty cool -- and it's free.
C Spire is building its business by giving customers what they want.
Earlier this year, C Spire became the first U.S. wireless provider to offer access to free news content with its Newslink Beta. It now delivers daily, personalized news based on what matters most to each customer.
The more you read and share, the more Newslink learns about you, enabling it to send more of the stories you are really interested in.
Now if I can only get it to reply to all my email, THAT would be terrific!


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Your Inner Fish "Your Inner Fish" This scientific adventure examines the legacy of creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago that is hidden within the human body. Based on the best-selling book by Neil Shubin, the mini-series begins with how humans' arms, legs, necks and lungs were bequeathed by a fish that lumbered onto land some 375 million years ago. The genetic legacy can be seen today in human DNA, including the genes used to build hands and limbs. Part 1 of 3G
1:00 am
We've Got The Power This program shows viewers how the United States can replace fossil fuels with clean energy in a way that is economically beneficial to consumers and businesses alike, and ensures a safer environment for future generations. By driving electric vehicles, installing solar on our roofs, or doing something as simple as getting a home energy audit, we all have the power to improve energy efficiency, save money, and phase out fossil fuels.G
2:00 am
Pioneers of Television "Standup to Sitcom" This episode features fresh interviews with Jerry Seinfeld, Roseanne Barr, Tim Allen, Ray Romano and Bob Newhart. The program reveals how America's top standup comics made the transition to the sitcom format and includes dozens of clips from "Seinfeld," "Home Improvement," "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Roseanne" and more.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Seeking Refuge" Nature's scenes and sounds are captured on film in Idaho's six natural wildlife refuges. Hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, plus more who find nesting sites in the refuges, also attract birdwatchers, scientists and others to these special places.G
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Dialogue "Naomi Shihab Nye: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" The Palestinian-American poet, essayist, novelist and teacher talks with host Marcia Franklin. In her writing, she is inspired by her experiences as an Arab-American, as well as the richness and diversity of people and places she has encountered in the U.S. and abroad.G
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Daniel Gets A Cold/Mom Tiger Is Sick" Daniel Gets a Cold: It's Prince Wednesday's birthday party at school! Daniel really doesn't want to miss the party, but he is not feeling very well at all. He learns that when you're sick, rest is best. Mom Tiger is Sick: It's a busy day at Daniel's house and everyone is working on something. D
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Martha Speaks "Martha Takes The Cake/Codename: Martha" Martha Takes the Cake - It's Alice's birthday and everybody's invited, including Martha. The only problem is that Nelson will be there too. Codename: Martha - Martha, Helen, and T.D. uncover a plot to rob the jewelry store, or so they think until their two suspects turn out to be police detectives on a stakeout.G
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Austin City Limits "Gary Clark Jr./Alabama Shakes" Modern blues and soul are featured in the two performances. Clark showcases his major label debut, while Alabama Shakes spotlight their critically acclaimed Boys & Girls.G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Athens and Side Trips" Rick tours the must-sees of ancient Athens, then takes the fast-paced pulse of the modern city. On side trips, he visits the ruins of the mystical oracle at Delphi and takes a fast boat to the traffic-free island of Hydra.G
7:30 am
Smart Travels - Pacific Rim With Rudy Maxa "San Francisco" The port city of San Francisco revels in art, diversity and food. Chinatown is a feast for the senses, and the city's new Asian Art Museum a must-see. We get savvy on sourdough and tour notorious Alcatraz Island. D
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The Desert Speaks "The People of Peru's Cloud Forest" Beginning in Cajamarca, host David Yetman, geologist Dick Yetman and South American archaeological expert Axel Nielsen head out into the colorful city streets in pursuit of authentic and very distinctive South American hats that are almost as tall as they are wide. This quest takes them past local merchant stalls and through Calle de Cuyes, or guinea pig alley, where locals can purchase skinned and fully dressed guinea pigs to eat.G
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Chef John Besh's Family Table Hearty Baked Pasta; Asian Chicken Salad; Heat and Serve Chili. D
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America's Heartland Discover how wooly sheep provide materials for unique art pieces. Meet a Wisconsin dairy farmer carving one of a kind figurines. Try your hand at music making with a Tennessee dulcimer maker. D
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New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad "In The Heart of Fjordland" On a farm in a valley in central fjordland, Andreas prepares dishes with the artisan goat cheeses of the region.G
10:00 am
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Ultimate Grilled Turkey Burgers" Test cook Becky Hays shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the best Juicy Grilled Turkey Burgers. Then, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of cheddar cheese. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus reviews Oil Misters. D
10:30 am
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home "Making A Difference" Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. That's the theme of this episode. Watch as P. Allen Smith talks to people making a difference in their communities and also the world. D
11:00 am
Song of the Mountains Mac Puckett & the Good Company Band; Morehead State University Mountain Music Ambassadors. D
12:00 pm
Sesame Street "Frankly It's A Habitat" Big Bird is eating a hot bowl of soup on a cold day outside Hooper's store. Freddy Flapman, from Flychert Real Estate finds Big Bird and tries to convince him to migrate somewhere warm. Freddy Flapman tells him that he might like living in a new habitat. D
1:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "Kenny Kentrosaurus/Don and the Troodons" Kenny Kentrosaurus - As the Pteranodon's World Tour nears its end, the Pteranodon family travels to Africa to meet a Stegosaur named Kenny Kentrosaurus. He teaches the kids about his spikes and his tail, showing them how to thump, prompting a fun drumming party! Don and the Troodons - The Pteranodon family oversleeps and rushes to go on another World Tour! Don is allowed to stay back on the Train and he ends up having a fun and educational day with the Conductor and his mom, Mrs. Conductor!. D
1:30 pm
Peg + Cat "The Parade Problem/The Halloween Problem" The Parade Problem - Park. Peg and Cat need to sort out recyclables to clean up the park in time for the nursery school's Halloween Parade. Primary Content: Sorting; Secondary Content: Estimating. D
2:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Teeny Weeny Adventure/I See Seeds" Teeny Weeny Adventure - Nick has spotted a tiny ladybug, but Sally has found an even smaller ant! And there's nothing smaller than an ant. Or is there? Cat takes Nick and Sally to meet a variety of single-celled creatures, the smallest anywhere! Nick and Sally soon learn that a drop of water holds a whole lot more than they ever realized! I See Seeds - Sally and Nick are going on an adventure, but how are they going to get there? Skateboard? Train? Rocketship? They just can't decide, until Cat suggests they see how trees send their seeds on trips. They follow different seeds as they travel through the air, float on the water and hitch rides on animals. D
2:30 pm
WordGirl "Have You Seen The Remote?/Sidekicked to the Curb" Have You Seen the Remote? - Tobey and WordGirl team up to track down missing remote control for his robots. When Tobey finally has a chance to spend time with his crush-WordGirl (sigh)- she has to ignore his distractions and stop whoever is in charge of the robots attack on the city. Sidekicked to the Curb - The Whammer has had enough of all of this sidekick business. D
3:00 pm
Science Trek "The Earth" Host Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientists, Virginia Gillerman, a geologist with the Idaho Geological Survey and Jeffrey Johnson, an Assistant Research Professor of Geophysics at Boise State University, will answer students' questions about the Earth.G
3:30 pm
Dialogue "Naomi Shihab Nye: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" The Palestinian-American poet, essayist, novelist and teacher talks with host Marcia Franklin. In her writing, she is inspired by her experiences as an Arab-American, as well as the richness and diversity of people and places she has encountered in the U.S. and abroad.G
4:00 pm
Infinity Hall Live "Shelby Lynne" INFINITY HALL LIVE continues with a concert by Grammy Award-winning artist Shelby Lynne. Since her debut in 1989, Shelby Lynne has been difficult to define with her music ranging from country, blues, Southern soul, roots rock, Western swing, jazz and adult contemporary pop. When asked to define herself, Lynne replied simply, "I try not to define anything really, myself especially. D
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Father Brown "The Wrong Shape" Soon after his poetry recital, Leonard Quinton is found hanging in the conservatory. When Father Brown realizes that he could not have committed suicide, the search begins for a murderer.G
7:00 pm
Midsomer Murders "Things That Go Bump in the Night, Part 2" As Barnaby and Scott try to uncover the mysteries of the church and interview various villagers about the undertaker's demise, another murder is committed and the village unleashes its full evil potential. Part 2 of 2G
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Masterpiece Classic "Mr. Selfridge, Season 2 - Part 3" The start of World War I spurs enlistment fever among the male staff. Ladies organize a benefit for refugees. LeClair has a mysterious obsession. Part 3 of 8G
9:00 pm
Dalziel and Pascoe "A Clubbable Woman Part 2 of 2" It seems nearly everyone at the rugby club could have a motive for murder. As the two detectives unravel the world of open rivalries, jealousies and secret infidelities among the group, Pascoe meets up with an old flame, Ellie Soper, who has taken a job not far from Wetherton. Part 2 of 2G
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Bobcat Badge
The Bobcat badge is the first rank earned by every boy in Cub Scouting. All boys will first work on their Bobcat badge to complete the Cub Scout joining requirements. Once the Bobcat badge requirements have been completed, the Cub Scout will continue with the age appropriate program.
The Bobcat rank was introduced in 1938 as the entry-level rank for every new Cub. The badge was a pin that was to be worn on civilian clothing and was not officially approved to be worn on the uniform shirt until 1959. In late 1972, the Bobcat pin was replaced with an embroidered rank patch and the Wolf and Bear rank badges were updated to the designs currently in use.
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To say I have deluged with questions of "what was it like to wrestle in a fire?" and "were you scared?" could not be more of an understatement.
For those of you living under a rock, at TNA's Hard Justice PPV, Eric Young was in the midst of getting the beating of his life, by yours truly, when some pyro equipment accidentally lit a burlap bag suspended above the ring on fire. As the fire was brought quickly under control, the ring was filled with smoke and flame retardant making breathing all but impossible.
In answer to the continuing questions: It was crazy. I couldn't breathe or see ,and didn't know if I should roll out of the ring and head for cover or wait it out and take my chances. Was I scared? No. Was I coughing up a lung and blind? Yes.
Just to give you an example of how bad it was -- the chemicals from the extinguishers ate my singlet that I had worn that night.
As a testament to how tough he is, Eric Young was able to, in the end, get the best of me after said insanity. I truly feel that if things had been different and there had been no fire, there would have been no question that Eric would have been fired from TNA that night as I was firmly in control until all hell broke loose. Literally.
But I am certain I will have a chance to exact some revenge in the future as TNA in a small place and Eric can only hide for so long.
Hard Justice on the whole, after the fire fiasco, ended up being one of TNA's best PPV offerings and will definitely go down in the weird crap at a wrestling show record books. Personally I thought the three way between Monty Brown, Rhino and Samoa Joe stole the show. But there are cases to be made for a lot of the matches that night.
Kudos have to go out to the TNA office for bringing it all back together and putting on a hell of a performance in the face of adversity and fire marshals!!
Speaking of fire marshals, a special mention must be made to Bob Ryder who refused to leave his headset position during the whole ordeal to try and keep some semblance of order in the chaos. Good on you Bob.
Coming up this Friday and Saturday I get to make a long-awaited return to the rings in Calgary and Edmonton! Friday, I will be at the Ogden Legion of Doom in Calgary for Stampede Wrestling, taking on my old arch nemesis "Dirty" Duke Durrango in what will be one of his last matches, as he has announced his retirement recently. I can't wait to lock it up with Duke again as he and I broke in together in the Dungeon and he's one of the guys who truly brings out the best in me. And to say we have been up and down the road together and beaten each other to hell and back is a HUGE understatement. Duke is definitely one of the toughest guys I have ever met in this business and I am sure this weekend will be no different than any of the other times we have faced each other. A tear-the-house-down match, followed by lots of Advil and Aspirin to help take the hurt away!
The next night I will be in Edmonton at the NAIT gym for the Prairie Wrestling Alliance, one of my all-time favourite promotions and venues! The talent there is always top notch and I look forward to seeing the great Edmonton fans again. It's been a while since I have been back and I hope the fans in Edmonton haven't forgotten the good ol' Hotshot! Guess we'll see this weekend. Hope to see a lot of the old faces out at the shows and some new TNA fans in the audience to check out some great indy wrestling.
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In the mean time and in between time, that's it, another edition of the Devine Intervention.
Bye now.
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This week I've been picking as much of the garden produce as I can before a killing frost comes. We've had 2 light frosts but even the basil plants haven't been hurt much. Yet. After a summer of drought and heat and low tomato and pepper production, those plants have gone into high gear, trying to catch up on production.
Adam, who I have written about here many times, left us with a fabulous fall garden. Too bad he didn't get to enjoy such lushness during the summer when he was farming the garden and selling at local farmers markets. (Adam left in mid September to work on a farm in Maryland for the winter; that farm sells at the DuPont Circle farmers market the year around).
|Ten pints of fish house green tomato pickles.
I've spent the day today, putting up some of the excess produce. With all the green tomatoes, I wanted to use the smaller ones for fish house green tomato pickles. They're a favorite in the catfish restaurants in the South and it's a great way to use up some of the tomatoes. Josh plans on making green tomato mincemeat, too, for pies this winter.
|Tomatoes ripening in the window.
The larger green tomatoes will simply stay on the kitchen windowsill where they will slowly ripen over the next couple of months. (I've used the wrap-in-newspaper method, which is a hassle, also the put-in-the-basement method, also a hassle to check every couple of days; on the windowsill, where I see the tomatoes every day, is the easiest and simplest and works just fine. Some years we have the last of our summer's ripe tomatoes on Christmas Day).
|You can use green tomatoes in any recipe that calls for ripe tomatoes, too.
Here's the recipe in case you want to use up your green tomatoes:
Catfish-House Green Tomato Pickles
2 quarts quartered green tomatoes
2 cups chopped onion
1/3 cup chopped hot peppers
1/3 cup chopped sweet red bell peppers
2 cups sugar
3 Tablespoons salt
3 cups apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon celery seed
1/4 teaspoon yellow mustard seed
Combine ingredients in a large cooking pan and bring to a slow boil. Let simmer for about 5 minutes. Ladle into hot, sterile jars, wipe lip edge of jars, screw on hot, new jar rings and flats and lightly tighten. Place into a boiling water bath, with at least 1/2 inch of water above the jar lids. Bring to a boil and keep slowly boiling for 15 minutes (for pints). Remove and cool on a towel. Don't tinker with the lids, they will seal in a few minutes. Let cool overnight then label and store in the pantry. These are best after the flavors have matured, about 2 weeks or more.
|Hot sauce with a kick, and green tomato salsa are from a single recipe.
I also made a batch each of green tomato salsa and one of green tomato hot sauce. If you'd like the recipe for those, visit my recipes blog. Both are a combination of varieties of hot peppers and it's a tasty hot sauce with a real kick.


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I am an entrepreneur and have been developing a new service, which provides Human Resources (HR) departments with annual & quarterly HR Reports. Those reports depict different HR relevant indicators (e.g. company headcount, training courses, etc.) on 20+ pages.
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Sunday Gazette-Mail
Smaller Parts of Mystery Walls Reported Unharmed
By James A. Haught
April 19, 1970
Smaller Parts of Mystery Walls Reported Unharmed
By James A. Haught
MONTGOMERY - The largest and most dramatic segment of the Armstrong Mountain "mystery walls" has been destroyed by a strip mine, but several smaller segments remain unharmed.
That's the verdict after two dozen archeologists, state officials and coal executives inspected the location of the state's most baffling prehistoric ruin.
During a state-organized expedition Friday, the experts offered these opinions:
Debate has been going on for more than a month over how much damage was done to the archeological site by strip mining and timbering. The mining was performed by Eagle Coal and Dock Co. as a contractor for Hawks Nest Mining Co. Rep. John Slack Jr., D-W. Va., was vice president and a major stockholder of the Eagle firm during the years of the stripping.
The Reclamation Division of the Department of National Resources organized Friday's inspection in an effort to learn the extent of harm to the prehistoric site. Invited experts gathered at the base of the mountain east of Montgomery and were driven to the top in five four-wheel-drive vehicles.
The safari paused in a large strip mine pit. The professional and amateur archeologists consulted their charts and decided that the largest and most significant of the stone-works had been on the exact spot, but now was obliterated.
Reclamation Division Chief Ben Greene, addressing the group through an electric bull horn, pointed out that the stripping was done in 1964 and 1965 before his agency existed. State laws at that time didn't include any restrictions to prevent strip mine firms from causing such damage, he said.
Sigfus Olafson of Madison, president of the West Virginia Archeological Society, took the bull horn and recounted his studies of the "mystery walls." He said the segment where the group stood had been 30 feet wide at its base and about five feet high.
"This was the big one, the most massive," he said. "The others were small. You could just tell they were human works, and that was all."
Olafson, a retired coal official of Icelandic descent, said the Armstrong Mountain stone-works probably date to about 300, A.D., in the same era as the Hopewell People, of whom traces have been found from Ohio to Georgia.
"There's little or no possibility of this (the Armstrong Mountain walls) being more recent than 1,600 to 1,700 years ago," he said.
OLAFSON SAID the walls obviously were built by people who lived in a prehistoric village at the base of the mountain. They evidently carried stone from various parts of the mountain to the top to the top and built the structures for some religious purpose, he said. There's no possibility, he said, that the walls might have been used as fortifications or livestock fences or any other secular purpose.
Gordon Billheimer of Montgomery, vice president of Hawks Nest Mining Co., took the bull-horn and asked how the archeologists knew the walls were so old. Maybe they were only 200 years old, he speculated.
State Archeologist Bettye Broyles of Morgantown replied that recent Indians never built that radioactive carbon dating of any such stone structures, and a Hopewell site in Tennessee has fixed its age at around 300 B.C.
Billheimer spoke in defense of his firm. He said the coal operators didn't intend to cause any harm to the archeological site. If the firm had been aware of the location or appearance of the "walls," it would have avoided them, he said.
State archeologists had written to Hawks Nest Mining Co. and asked the strippers to avoid the walls, and the firm promised it would.
Billheimer said the Eagle Coal and Dock Co. workers were instructed "to avoid any walls" - but they didn't realize the stone-works were only loose scatterings of rock in many places.
"We thought the walls were walls, and continuous," he said. "But I couldn't see any, and the men couldn't see any. It was a lack of information on our part.Nobody wants to deliberately destroy anything like this. It was ignorance on my part and on the men's part.You're expecting too much of us. How would we know?
Mrs. Broyles commented that the mining firm was innocent, since it didn't realize it was damaging anything. She said archeology fans and state officials were guilty for not marking and preserving the site.
Billheimer pointed out that no efforts have been made to preserve the prehistoric village at the base of Armstrong Mountain, which dates back as far as the walls. The village site now is a ball diamond, he said.
"It's the general attitude of the American people," Olafson commented. "We're lucky the pyramids are in a backward country like Egypt. If they were in the U.S., they would have been dismantled for railroad ballast or bridge abutments by now."
The expedition combed the top of Armstrong Mountain and found two of the smaller "wall" segments unharmed. Archeological society president Olafson said at the end of the day that he thinks one smaller wall in addition to the large wall has been destroyed, and the other four small segments remain.
Members of the party discussed possible ways to coordinate knowledge so such accidental destruction won't happen to other sites.
"This has taught us all a lesson," Mrs. Broyles remarked.
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KaiserCraft is a company based in Australia that has quickly become one of my favorite imports from the land down under. They make great scrapbooking and paper crafting products, and I always look forward to see what they'll do next. I don't spend a lot of time on altered projects. Instead, most of my time and energy goes into scrapbook layouts. That said, I really do like the idea of altered projects, and I love a good product that can help me be creative and save time. It's for these reasons that I have really grown to love KaiserCraft and their 'Beyond The Page' line of products.
shown above: Holly Wreath, Stocking Garland, and Love Monologue
The wood items are easily covered, painted, or otherwise decorated. All come with a small photo of the finished item, but instructions are not included. For some projects it has taken me a bit of time to work out the best way to put it together, but for the most part the pieces I've selected are simple enough that it is immediately clear what to do to assemble them.
What I really do enjoy with these projects is that I can choose how easy or hard, how detailed or simple, I want to make them. To start off with, I decorated this tree.
To cover the wood, I used green cardstock (and a light coat of liquid adhesive). Then I cut it apart, and used the KaiserCraft Be Merry elements and their 'Tis The Season' acrylic holly leaf stamp. Very soon, I had tied this tree together and was ready to hang it up! I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink and Distress Embossing Powder (with the holly stamp) as well as edging this piece in Distress Ink.
A few items I'd recommend when working with this line include a good adhesive/sealant such as PPA by USArt Quest, sanding tools such as the Basic Grey sanding tool set, and plenty of patience. Whether you're painting, misting, or paper covering (or some of each) your piece, you'll want to allow it to dry thoroughly in between sessions to ensure the best possible final product. Whenever I rush I end up with smears, mistakes, and other problems. I also recommend using adhesive all the way to the outer edges when covering with paper so that the edges won't lift away from the base.
All of that advice is really true for any altered project, and while the tree above only took two sessions, the one below took quite a bit longer than that.
This tree took a number of hours (over a few weeks), but it's actually a simple enough project. I used paints, mists, and everything else I could think of to make this ultra colorful tree – which is soon to be centerpiece on my buffet.
key supplies used in making of this tree:
KaiserCraft Large Flourish Tree
Smooch Pearlized Accent Inks
Acrylic Paint (KaiserCraft or other brand)
Glitter Glues (Stickles, or other brand)
Making Memories red brads and rhinestones
Distress Crackle Paint in Tarnished Brass
Fiskars squeeze punch (bird wings)
PPA by US Art Quest (adhesive/sealant)
Liquitex irridescent/pearlescent medium
I have seen this particular tree done very simply (and beautifully) in a single paint color, glittered, or otherwise done a lot quicker than I have here. However, I really just wanted to play and have fun. I kept painting on layers of color, testing different products, and if I didn't like something I simply covered it (once dry) with a new layer. So much fun!
My best advice when working with a large project like this is to frequently take breaks so you don't burn out or get sloppy. Just relax and enjoy yourself! I chose to work with paints, inks, and other similar mediums so that I could easily layer over color and change things as I went. I didn't apply the white paint edging to this piece, or the glitter glue, until I was very comfortable with my nearly finished piece.
I have been having so much fun with these pieces that I have found myself looking over the current selection available and thinking about purchasing more items to play with! I recommend the pieces, like these two above, that are very simple in design and have only a few pieces at the most. They are the easiest to use, sturdiest, and the most fun in my opinion. I count the many mini-book options among these. They are exceptionally sturdy books in all shapes and sizes that could be oh-so-fun to customize.
That said, I've also enjoyed some of the more intricate pieces available. Above is a screen shot from the KaiserCraft website of their advent calendar. I really appreciate how many projects and images they share both on their blog and the website itself.
The Advent Calendar has a lot of pieces – so expect to spend some time cutting apart and securing all the bits and pieces. What I love most about this piece is that it has a large center area that you can decorate, and also use as a shelf to add little trinkets and holiday cheer.
I chose to paint mine, and decorate the center portion (on the back/base) BEFORE adding all the cubbies and such. I felt this made for much easier decorating, and I didn't have any pesky paint lines at edges because I was able to work with the individual pieces vs a pre-made piece.
As you can see, I still have some work to do on this project, but I wanted to share these "in progress" photos with you. I am using Crafty Power Tape (by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L) to hold the chipboard boxes in place and also on the paper that I'm adhering to them. A strong double sided tape works great to both hold the boxes together and secure the paper.
In this project, I am using one of KaiserCraft's two holiday lines (Tis the Season) for my Advent calendar and WOW! I sure do love this line. It's so full of damask, holly, sheet music, and vintage Santas – it's just my thing. I'm looking forward to using it a lot in my holiday crafting.
I look forward to utilizing a lot more KaiserCraft wood alterable items in the future – for both home decor and paper crafting projects. The prices are reasonable and the results are great every time. I have had a lot of fun sharing a bit about these projects with you and I hope they've got you in the mood to put your scrapbooking stash to work "beyond the page"!
We have a giveaway to share here today as well – KaiserCraft has generously provided a box full of goodies from both of their holiday lines as well as a Funky Wreath that one lucky Scrapbook Update winner will win.
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Although some detractors have opined against Microsoft's recent "Wedding" ad, which pokes fun out of the Apple v Samsung rivalry, noting that it forgot to highlight any Windows Phone features, those critics failed to mention the numerous "Challenge" ads that have been running.
A new one was just posted to the Windows Phone YouTube channel and this time the focus is on the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Microsoft's Local Scout feature, which at least in certain regions is a very effective way to find local shops, eateries and things to do in addition to reviews, directions and general information.
The charming Ben Rudolph again tests three volunteers to find some local places and of course, Windows Phone wins. In this video, the Nokia Lumia 920 once again is the preferred device for the demonstration and overall, we like the ad. While it's not as memorable as the "Wedding" one, these are the kind of "focus on the features" commercials that Microsoft needs (and critics say they don't do).
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Yeah, but in the manga, there are far more than 1 occastion that they have spelling errors. I just assume Japanese can't spell certain translated words correctly every time.KOG wrote:
I was asked... 'did I mean to spell Patraqushe?'
Well, I tried that... and Patraqushe brought up 699 results.
If we're trying to be helpful to new fans here, I think that's a good arguement for using the Patraqushe spelling.
Remember they translate them from Japanese to English, so some alphabet sometimes becomes an approximation.


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T-Mobile confident of AT&T Deal..
The acquisition of T-Mobile would make AT&T the largest carrier in the U.S. The company (AT&T) says the merger is necessary to accommodate the heavy data demands of its subscribers, and will also create jobs and bring coverage to rural areas. However, while AT&T might claim to have more states supporting it, most of the highly populated US states such as California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania are against the deal. The large numbers of consumers in those states are likely to hold some sway with the DoJ.
T-Mobie also released a new statement assuring that the deal will pass and the new T-Mobile will be part of AT&T.
If regulators reject the deal, AT&T must pay $3 billion to T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom as part of its pre-nup agreement with the wireless network. The carrier must also give T-Mobile free spectrum in some regions and reduce charges for T-Mobile customers who make calls to AT&T subscribers