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Enter Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's surreal look at the world of finance -- set in the back of a stretch white limousine winding it's way through the crowded streets of New York City.
Robert Pattinson, who spends nearly every scene of the movie in the plush back seat, says even he was surprised by how much took place in the back in the limited environment.
"When I saw the script, about 70% of it was in the limo," Pattinson tells USA TODAY. "But as we were shooting, (Cronenberg) kept adding even more scenes. I started feeling like it was (the German U-boat classic) Das Boat, like we were stuck in this weird submarine movie."
Even Pattinson's communication with Cronenberg was through the limousine's intercom from inside this sealed world. Meanwhile, the back of the limo serves as the stage for some crazy stuff, street riots and the like. In one scene Pattinson's banker character actually seduces the lovely French actress Juliet Binoche. Naturally the sex scene takes place in the tight back seat, which led to some comical moments for Pattinson.
"There's not enough space to really do it," he says. "So she's banging her head on the ceiling. It ended up being kind of funny. But its supposed to be kind of erotic."
But the most bizarre scene, and no doubt another movie first, is another seduction moment.
"There's a scene where I am having to seduce (a woman) while being completely naked having a prostate exam in the back of the limousine," laughs Pattinson. "They don't really see it that very often in movies."
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Feb. 13, 2008) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that Blanca Coronado, 49, of Phoenix, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to three felony counts of money laundering. Coronado was the manager of Mota's Shuttle, a low-cost shuttle service between Phoenix and Sonoyta, Caborca and Rocky Point.
In Aug. 2007, Coronado was one of 47 defendants indicted following a six-month investigation conducted by the Phoenix Police Department that found evidence of money laundering through the shuttle van service from Phoenix to Mexico, for various drug organizations.
According to investigators, drug dealers would drop off cash to the shuttle van service, and drivers would strap the money to their bodies and take the money across the border. Coronado managed and ran the business responsible for transporting approximately $2 million dollars per month in drug proceeds to Mexico.
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Fox's action-drama series 24 followed Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), an agent of an anti-terrorist organization called CTU (insert interoffice CTU phone-ring sound here) as he routinely attempted to save the country from some terrorist plot, often exposing or helping to expose government corruption in the process. The series played out in real time, with each 24-episode season taking place over the course of a single day. The big screen adaptation is not likely to be 24 hours, and the shift in format may be part of what's taking so long for the film script to be completed.
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The pacing of the series was one of the things that made 24 work, however those of us who continued to tune in even after the novelty of the real-time format wore off, did so because we loved Jack Bauer, Chloe, Tony, David Palmer and some of the other excellent characters who appeared in the series. It's good to hear they're relaxing and finding a way to tell the story in a movie format. I like to think of Jack Bauer as falling in line with John McClane or Martin Riggs. The big screen could use a hero like Bauer and there's certainly potential for the character in later films, should the first 24 movie work out.


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Intelligent knowledge-based models and methodologies for complex information systems. 1-3
Jan Feyereisl, Uwe Aickelin:
Privileged information for data clustering. 4-23
Jongwuk Lee, Jinhan Kim, Seung-won Hwang:
Supporting efficient distributed skyline computation using skyline views. 24-37
Jong-Won Roh, Seung-won Hwang, Byoung-Kee Yi:
Efficient bitmap-based indexing of time-based interval sequences. 38-56
Ting Yu, Julien Ugon, Wei Yu:
A modified parallel optimization system for updating large-size time-evolving flow matrix. 57-67
Elena Baralis, Luca Cagliero, Tania Cerquitelli, Paolo Garza:
Generalized association rule mining with constraints. 68-84
B. Sumudu U. Mendis, Tamás D. Gedeon:
Complex Structured Decision Making Model: A hierarchical frame work for complex structured data. 85-106
Mariano Rubiolo, María Laura Caliusco, Georgina Stegmayer, Mauricio Coronel, M. Gareli Fabrizi:
Knowledge discovery through ontology matching: An approach based on an Artificial Neural Network model. 107-119
Clarence A. Ellis, Kwang-Hoon Kim, Aubrey J. Rembert, Jacques Wainer:
Investigations on Stochastic Information Control Nets. 120-137
Ka-Chun Wong, Chun-Ho Wu, Ricky K. P. Mok, Chengbin Peng, Zhaolei Zhang:
Evolutionary multimodal optimization using the principle of locality. 138-170
Ali Wagdy Mohamed, Hegazy Zaher Sabry:
Constrained optimization based on modified differential evolution algorithm. 171-208
Junbo Zhang, Tian-rui Li, Da Ruan, Zizhe Gao, Chengbing Zhao:
A parallel method for computing rough set approximations. 209-223
Yue Gao, Meng Wang, Rongrong Ji, Zheng-Jun Zha, Jialie Shen:
k-Partite graph reinforcement and its application in multimedia information retrieval. 224-239
Xingqin Qi, Eddie Fuller, Qin Wu, Yezhou Wu, Cun-Quan Zhang:
Laplacian centrality: A new centrality measure for weighted networks. 240-253
Tsong Yueh Chen, Peifeng Hu, Hao Li, T. H. Tse:
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Here's the historical designation of the new animated film "ParaNorman": It's the third feature made in the painstaking stop-motion process — consciously unrealistic, herky-jerky and rough-hewn, in the George Pal "Puppetoons" or Tim Burton "Corpse Bride" vein — as well as in stereoscopic 3-D. The first two to do so were the very fine"Coraline" and the noisy, bustling"The Pirates! Band of Misfits."
The other distinction worth noting: In this summer of 2012, "ParaNorman" is one of the good movies. Though not up to the riches of "Coraline," also made by the folks at LAIKA, Inc., an animation company in Hillsboro, Ore., "ParaNorman" blends its strains of zombie movie tropes, supernatural curses and stoical, misunderstood preteens with a careful hand. Even when the component parts are familiar, the treatment thereof feels newly observed and thoughtfully integrated. Lead animator and producer Travis Knight establishes a mood, at once sinister and comic, and allows the characters room to move around inside, as they introduce us to the nooks and crannies of the Salem, Mass.-styled town of Blithe Hollow.
Young Norman has a vertical mini-forest of hair and two rectangular, quizzical eyebrows. His home life is bordered by a harsh older sister, a hot-tempered father and a loving but weary mother. Norman has the "Sixth Sense" problem: He sees dead people, one of them being his kindly grandmother, floating around the family home. The grandmother is voiced by Broadway legend Elaine Stritch, which gave me faint hopes of at least one rendition of Sondheim's "The Ladies Who Lunch." Dashed!
Bullied at school, Norman's shadowed by his mysterious Mr. Prenderghast who is desperate to share a secret involving the town's witch-curse. "ParaNorman" morphs into a variation on the movies Norman loves, specifically the undead-focused. There's a sad story of another misunderstood preteen at the root of the curse, and Norman must lead his own band of misfits on a quest to solve the riddle and save the town.
The notion that witch-hunt and pack-animal persecution recur throughout human history gives "ParaNorman" its foundation. The notion that stray body parts, acting alone and acting up, are a solid source of visual slapstick gives the film its comic spark. It's too bad screenwriter and co-director Chris Butler (Sam Fell is the other director) larded the story with 21/2 action climaxes when one would do. The movie, I think, errs by going for the conventionally scary and bombastic Big Finish, even though it's a Melancholy Big Finish, and therefore more intriguing than the average everyday "Ice Age" sequel Big Finish.
What works about "ParaNorman" is its subtle interweave of the stoical and the heroic. The voice work is inspired, without a lot of theatrical flourish. The low-key musical score by Jon Brion, one of the year's best, teases out the macabre humor in each new challenge faced by Norman.
For all their painstaking detail, I never much took to the Tim Burton universe of stop-motion,"The Nightmare Before Christmas"or "Corpse Bride." But "Coraline" and "ParaNorman" are several steps up in terms of ... well, everything that makes a film successful and interesting. The stories seduce rather than bully. The throwaway gags are choice. (At one point in the zombie-invasion section of the film, a three-second radio dispatch is heard: "Officials are urging people to panic and run.") And despite a heavy-going and not-great final 20 minutes, "ParaNorman" gets you in Norman's corner and keeps you there. And for a bonus, the film offers the year's funniest single joke, involving a race between an incoming zombie and a vending machine dispensing, a little too slowly, a bag of chips.
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Students drawn to Morgan State University's strong academics and historical legacy are finding that crime is becoming an increasing distraction, and are joining a state lawmaker and alumnus in calling for better security to protect the institution's reputation.
The latest incident took place Friday. Baltimore police said a 20-year-old man who is not a student at Morgan shot a lineman on the university's football team as students wound down the last day of classes before fall-semester finals.
Police have charged Keith Robertson of the 4900 block of G. St. SE in Washington with attempted first-degree murder and handgun charges in the case. Roberts gave a confession related to the incident, police said Saturday, but they would not elaborate.
The student shot in the torso is 19-year-old Tyrell Okoro, a popular student from Queens New York, said Morgan spokesman Clinton R. Coleman Jr. It is not clear why Robertson was on campus or whether he knew Okoro.
The shooting came less than three months after a teenager visiting his cousin, also a football player, was shot in the university's student center. Three armed robberies have been reported in or around campus in the past two weeks. And in May a student — who had attacked another student with a baseball bat on campus — was charged with killing, dismembering and eating parts of the heart and brain of man in his Harford County home.
"It's happening too often," Morrisa Reddon, a museum studies graduate student said of campus crime. "There needs to be some kind of revamping of security. Safety is a real concern right now."
Reddon said she had unwittingly walked down a stairwell behind Holmes Hall Thursday evening just an hour after an armed robbery was reported to have occurred there.
"This whole city life is getting real around here," said Reddon, who grew up on the Eastern Shore.
University officials said they stepped up campus patrols after the shooting. Police had detained Robertson Friday as a "person of interest" and took away several people in handcuffs, including at least one student, whom they described as witnesses.
Police have not released a motive in the incident; university officials said the shooting appeared to be targeted.
Morgan hired additional police officers and security guards for the evening and set up an anonymous tip line, Morgan President David Wilson wrote in an email to students Friday.
"Today's incident proves that we must continue our ongoing mission to rid this campus of elements that stand in the way of a secure campus and surrounding community," Wilson wrote, pledging to "redouble" efforts to boost safety and urging students to help.
Coleman said Saturday that the university was looking at other ways it could improve safety on campus.
Earlier Friday, a university spokesman said campus security was "where it needs to be." State Del. Curt Anderson, a Morgan alumnus who lives near campus, scoffed at that statement, calling it "ridiculous."
"Clearly, something needs to be done differently, because there's a problem," said Anderson. "If the police department over there thinks that they don't have a problem, than they're wrong."
Anderson, who has lived near Morgan for 35 years, said the Northeast Baltimore neighborhood surrounding the campus is largely safe, but he does hear gunshots from time to time. "It's one of those things you accept when you choose to live in the city," he said.
The university broke ground last week on a $72 million business school, a development they said could help expand the western edge of the campus and improve the nearby Northwood Plaza Shopping Center. Former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris was fatally shot at Northwood in 2007.
State Sen. Catherine Pugh, also an alumna, said she believed the string of incidents this year was a coincidence and hoped it would not reflect negatively on the university.
"It's indicative of the times. It's not indicative of Morgan itself," Pugh said. "It would be unfair to paint a negative portrait of this institution that is doing so much good in the community."
S. Daniel Carter, a national campus safety advocate, said it appears that there was little that Morgan officials could have done to prevent either recent shooting. In both incidents, the alleged gunman was not a student, so the shootings could not be blamed on a failure to track troubling student behavior.
"If it's a non-campus community member, the threat detection process really wouldn't work," he said. "It also doesn't work when you have a single incident that escalates immediately."
Short of installing a fence ringed with metal detectors around a campus, there are few ways to prevent such crimes, said Carter, who heads a group that analyzes campus safety.
"We have traditionally decided that as a society, we want campuses to be open places," said Carter.
Jonathan Bernstein, who owns Los Angeles-based Bernstien Crisis Management Inc., said in the aftermath of the shootings Morgan officials need to continually reassure students and the public that they have safety measures in place. They also need to take this time to make sure there is not more they can do to improve safety.
But he says all campuses are prone to violence and even the strongest safety measures won't always prevent crime. Universities should constantly revaluate ways to beef up efforts, he said.
"No matter how many systems put in place, somebody can always find a way to get around the system," Bernstein said. "Crisis prevention is not a static process. It should be a living dynamic process."
Some students said a fence around campus might not be such a bad idea.
"I do think Morgan should be a gated community," said Cameron Gilbert, a senior TV production major from Bowie. "Every day, there are people on this campus who don't go to school here."
Gilbert, 21, said his mother has been concerned about his safety, particularly when he has evening classes. Rather than walk the few blocks between his apartment and campus, he now drives at night.
He said he thought campus police were overly focused on busting underage drinking and loud parties, and did not do enough to prevent violent crime.
Carter said one way to cut down on violent crime would be to teach students to de-escalate conflict. Since both shooting victims had ties to the football team, Carter recommended the players to be among the first to receive such training.
At least one prospective student said news of two shootings in one semester was making her rethink her dream of attending Morgan.
"I don't really want to go to a school where I'm not safe and I'm not secure," said Yetunde Alawiye, 17, a junior at Kenwood High in Essex. "There's too much going on at Morgan. They need to bring it down a little bit."
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Kate Hudson, expecting her second baby — the first with 32-year-old rocker beau Matt Bellamy— admits she didn't grow up in "normal" family — but she's happy about it! The 31-year-old actress, who was raised by mom Goldie Hawn and stepfather Kurt Russell since she was 3, doesn't think marriage is necessary for a family dynamic.
"The most important thing for Ryder's life is love, happiness and honesty," she says of her 7-year-old son with her rocker ex-husband Chris Robinson, 44. "I have the most unconventional family ever. My mom Goldie Hawn was married twice, and then she met my dad (Kurt) who was married before."
Just like Ryder, who already has a half-sister Cheyenne, 1, from his dad Chris' second marriage, Kate grew up with a mixed set of siblings.
"I've got a brother and half-brothers and sisters, and we all have the most wonderful relationships," Kate explains. "My mom and dad are around a lot — we all live within seven blocks of each other. You can't go wrong if you're honest and your intention is to be happy."
And Kate proves her point every day! She and Chris have a wonderful relationship and stay friends for the benefit of Ryder. They were recently seen together with their significant others at Ryder's baseball game. Good for them!
Kate flaunted her fabulous bump March 27 at a party for Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters at Chrome Hearts Factory in L.A.


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Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.1 driver:
AMD HD3D technology support enhancement
· Enables support for AMD HD3D technology in conjunction with AMD CrossFireX configurations
· Delivers a new Stereo 3D mode over HDMI 1.4a connections - 1080p at 30Hz is now enabled on supported displays.
AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Application Profiles
· AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver enables users to create per application profiles to individually control 3D and CrossFireX settings for Direct3D applications
· Please be sure to select the "Restore Factory Defaults" option under the Catalyst Control Center Preferences menu before using the new application profiles feature – this ensures there are no compatibility issues between previous drivers and the new AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver with regards to application profiles
AMD Catalyst Control Center / Vision Engine Control Center enhancements – Video UI improvements
· AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver includes user interface enhancements to simply adjustment of video color and video quality controls
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Linux driver:
This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems
· SLED 11 SP2 early look support
· Ubuntu 11.10 production level support
We have also just released the AMD Catalyst 12.2 Preview:
The AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Preview includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst™ 12.1, plus additional fixes that are not included in the AMD Catalyst 12.1 release. Details can be found in the AMD Catalyst 12.2 Preview release notes: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... notes.aspx
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Please note that AMD Radeon HD 7900 users should keep using the 8.921.2 RC11 driver found here (the 12.2 preview does not supported the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series): http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... river.aspx
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 driver:
AMD Eyefinity 2.1 technology enhancements
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· Dynamic Configuration Changes: Switching between different display configurations will occur automatically when physically plugging/un-plugging displays
· HydraVision enhancements: The Windows Task bar can now be moved and resized based on users preference
· Profile Manager improvements: Increased support for Display Groups (including 5x1) and Extended configurations within the Profile Manager
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The number of murders in the U.S. in 2011 committed with rifles: 323.
The number involving handguns? A whopping 6,220. Or 49% of the 12,664 homicides committed in the U.S. in 2011, according to FBI data. And that's a longstanding pattern. See murder statistics by weapon.
The huge gap suggests President Obama's call for new firearm restrictions would do little to reduce the number people murdered each year – even if a reluctant Congress were to pass all his requests. His proposals don't really addresss handguns.
Obama on Wednesday asked Congress to reinstall a lapsed ban on so-called assault rifles and set a 10-bullet limit on the size of magazines, among his more far-reaching proposals. He also implemented a series of minor measures by executive order. Obama seeks overhaul of U.S. gun laws.
Obama cited the recent shooting in Newtown, Conn, in an emotional appeal asking Americans to support fresh gun-control measures. The Newtown killer, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, used a Bushmaster AR-15 to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary school, including 20 children.
The very popular Bushmaster is considered by gun-control advocates to be an assault weapon. Assault weapons are usually shorter than regular rifles and can look like a machine gun, but they only fire a single bullet with each pull of the trigger. In effect, they function like the millions of regular semi-automatic rifles and pistols already in possession of American gun owners.
Yet assault rifles have also been used in several recent mass shootings, including Newtown and Aurora, Colorado. They are easier to conceal than traditional rifles and some can handle much larger magazines with as many as 100 bullets.
A 10-bullet limit on magazines might help to limit the number of people killed in mass shootings, but it probably wouldn't do much to reduce total murders. Most are committed with handguns using magazines of 10 bullets or less.
The irony is, the U.S. has experienced a dramatic and long-term decline in murder since 1980, even as mass shootings seem to have increased. Social scientists aren't entirely sure why.
The number of murders per 100,000 people has shrunk from a peak of 10.2 in 1980 to 4.7 in 2011.
The FBI also reports "murder and non-negligent manslaughter" has fallen from 23,760 in 1992 to 14,612 in 2011 – a 39% decline. (The FBI uses different categories to classify murders). See FBI data here.
As for rifles, they are used even less than body parts, blunt instruments or sharp objects to commit murder.
In 2011, more murders were committed by knives (1,694), hands, fists and feet (728) and blunt weapons such as clubs and hammers (496), according to FBI data.
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Here's a wonderful submission by Diane who has a great Youtube channel, Character Crafts.This is a simple photo frame inspired by the princess Rapunzel you can make with your little princess.
- 2 different colors construction paper(pink and purple here)
- child's photo
- scissors
- glue
- ruler
- pencil
- thin ribbon or yarn for the hair
- glitter glue
- sparkles
- Trace and cut out a large rectangle from colored paper, this is the tower.
- Trace and cut out a triangle for the roof and door in the other color.
- Cut out a window near the top of the rectangle.
- Glue on the roof and door pieces.
- Decorate with glitter glue and sparkles.
- Cut the photo to size and glue to the back of the photo frame.
- Cu three lengths of yarn or ribbon and braid into Rapunzel's hair and glue to the top of the picture hanging down. Voila!
Here's Diane's complete video tutorial. Please check out her other great craft ideas on youtube.
Feel free to submit your crafty ideas and see them featured on Preschool Crafts for Kids*.


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Every day, I gather together all my favorite things into my morning and evening roundups. Those posts are filled with things meant to make you laugh, think, smile and debate. I also try to keep those collections *fairly* family-friendly so that anyone and everyone can enjoy them. But, c'mon…
A lot of the funniest things I find are a little more on the RACY side: f-bombs, sexual innuendo, and all that good stuff. Instead of skipping over those finds completely (and since a lot of us do laugh at these kinds of things as much as the next awesome person), I've included them in a single weekly (or semi-weekly) roundup. That's what this is.
Go ahead. Laugh. Snicker. Send 'em to your friends. Life isn't all flowers and gum balls and classy things.
Dance off!
Life is good, friends. Life is fucking good. Thanks for laughing at all the inappropriate things with me.
Oh, and if you're going to do awesome things (ahem) on awesome beds, you're gonna wanna be doing those awesome things on THIS bed for sure.
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Norway found the way into my heart. I'm in love with its frozen-in-time qualities and the magical beauty of its fjords. I had a feeling that this would be a pretty incredible journey. Cruising through deep fjords, lush and untamed valleys, and magnificent waterfalls was a stunning outdoor experience beyond my wildest dreams.
I have cruised with Azamara several times over the past two years. This Waterfalls and Fjords of Norway itinerary is a very special trip in my book. Each time I looked up during dinner or out my cabin window I would admire the scenery and grandeur of nature. We passed gorgeous sunsets, rugged coastlines, dramatic green snowcapped mountainsides, and endless waterfalls.
I am a huge nature lover and nothing compares to this experience. It was so memorable to check this off my bucket list, and what a bonus to cruise in unseasonably warm weather. It was such a blessing to soak in the warm sun while in the Arctic Circle.
In Norway, Geiranger is considered the shining star of the country's fjord district. The surrounding natural beauty is jaw dropping. My photographs make my social media pages look like a storybook or the setting of a fairytale.
Chasing waterfalls is not typically considered good advice, except when traveling onboard the Azamara Quest. Not only did Captain Jose Vilarinho sail along the famous Seven Sisters Waterfall, he choreographed a ship pirouette so everyone could view this spectacular dance of nature from all angles. It was pretty incredible to see how in awe the guests were of this show.
During dinner one night I was seated with a guest named Syed, from Maui. Syed told me the Seven Sisters views were the highlight of his trip. He was so impressed by the Captain's talent and desire to provide a memorable experience for everyone onboard. He's already booked for a wine-focussed cruise in September 2017.
On a side note, the funny thing is, we counted six waterfalls, not seven. As explained to me, reasons for this include 1) a lower amount of snowmelt and rain for the year and 2) once upon a time there were different ways to say seven and sister in Norwegian and a permutation of the two stuck. No one really knows for sure, though.
Fun fact: Norway has the most waterfalls of any European country – more than 1,000!
The beautiful village of Flam proved to be a slice of paradise for me, and will suit anyone who is looking for a chance to drink in some of Mother Nature's best work. It is situated at the inner end of the Aurlandsfjord, which is a tributary of the 4,300-foot deep, 127-mile long Sognefjord. Sognefjord is known as the Father of the Fjords; I'm sure that title has as much to do with its beauty as its size.
Norway's oldest fjord almost dates back 65 million years when glaciers ruled Earth. Those ice behemoths very slowly (as in it-took-millions-of-years slowly) dug steep fjords into the landscape. This erosion explains why fjords are shallow at the mouth and can go as deep as 3,000 feet.
Add Lake Loen to your Norway bucket list. I have never seen such a gorgeous shade of emerald green … and it was the water! Lake Loen is located a few miles north of the village Olden. From a boat on the lake we could see Jostedalsbreen, Europe's biggest glacier at around 300 square miles. It's a completely different perspective and not to be missed. I could spend another week hiking this area with my camera.
From Stavanger, we visited Norway's most known fjord, Lysefjord. Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) is on the north side and stands over 1,000 feet (550 meters) above sea level. It is completely flat on top, like a southwestern mesa.
Check out this short video I created to showcase a taste of this incredible country.
I hope you add Norway to your travel bucket list. I've loved each cruise I've taken with Azamara because of the exceptional service. This Norwegian adventure has carved a fjord-sized place in my heart and there it will stay. Forever.
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Finally, after two long and rather ridiculous seasons that saw the Winnipeg Jets based out of the Southeast, the league has undergone re-alignment and have the team in a realistic division: The Central. All week I will provide a preview of the Jets new Divisional Rivals, giving you with a brief review of last years' stats, each team's potential opening day lineup, strengths and weaknesses, and a few major storylines (both Jet and non-Jet related). Today we review what will surely become fierce rivals, the Minnesota Wild.
The Minnesota Wild
Scheduled Meetings:
- October 10th – Minnesota
- November 17th – Minnesota
- November 23rd – Winnipeg
- December 27th – Winnipeg
- April 7th – Winnipeg
2012-13 Review:
Record (Point %)
26-19-3 (.573) – 8th in West
24-21-3 (.531) – 9th in East
2.46 – 22nd
2.62 – 16th
Goals Against/Game
2.60 – 16th
2.94 – 25th
Power play %
17.9% – 16th
13.8% – 30th
Pentalty Kill %
80.7% – 18th
79.7% – 24th
Fenwick Close %
5v5 Corsi For %
Opening Day Projected Lineup:
Strengths & Weaknesses:
The Wild finished second in the Northwest last year and made the playoffs, only to be booted in the first round by the Chicago Blackhawks. They hope to be a playoff team again this year and make more of a push, but a glaring problem persists:
Goal Scoring
It's hard to believe that with players like Zach Parise, Mikku Koivu, Matt Cullen, Devin Setoguchi, and Dany Heatley that the Wild have struggled to score goals, yet they have managed to do just that, finishing 22nd in goals for per game. Wild GM Chuck Fletcher is hoping that the dismissal of Setoguchi and Cullen, paired with the rise of Mikael Granlund and the acquisition of regular 60-point man Jason Pominville will lead to the end of that problem. It's a risk that needed to be taken, but until it proves to produce something positive, or Dany Heatley finds a time machine, goal scoring remains a concern in Minnesota.
Despite finishing last season among the middle of the pack in most defensive stats last year, the Wild do have strengths when it comes to keeping the puck out of the net:
The Finnish Backstrom
Minnesota has one of the stronger, more proven goaltenders in the Central Division in Niklas Backstrom. Backstrom had a down year last season that saw his career SV% of .917 drop to .909, likely due to the workload of starting 41 of the Wild's 48 games. A longer season will allow coach Mike Yeo to better utilize his backup and see more of the spectacular Nik Backstrom, provided he keeps himself healthy.
The Blue Line
Minnesota's depth on the blue line has greatly improved over the past two seasons. First came the expensive acquisition of Ryan Suter. Paired with the surprising emergence of 2011 1st round pick Jonas Brodin, who quickly began logging almost 30 minutes a game near playoff time as the youngest defenseman in the league. Add in ex-Canuck Ballad to Scandella, Spurgeon and Stoner, and you have a solid group of defensemen. Let's not forget that young Matt Dumba will be pushing to steal a spot out of training camp as well, providing the Wild with many options to work with.
Storylines Entering the Season:
Pressure Mounting
When you spend nearly $200 million on two players, and almost single-handedly ensure a lockout is coming, you better hope your team performs. You can be sure that a first round exit and lack of scoring was not what the Wild front office expected from the signings of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter, but that's what they got. With more additions and Chuck Fletcher's prospects starting to enter the lineup, the Wild are at a point of time that they need to start winning and take that next step. It'll be tough in a division with the Blackhawks and Blues, but no one said the NHL was easy.
Players With Things to Prove
Nino Niederreiter is likely the poster boy for players that need to prove themselves this season. After throwing a (mini) hissy fit on the Island when he didn't make the Islanders squad coming out of the lockout, Nino found himself moved to the Wild in the offseason. He now has to prove his doubters in New York that they made a mistake moving him, and step cleanly into the Minnesota lineup. Further, both Dany Heatley and Jason Pominville are entering the final year of their respective contracts, and both need to start putting points on the board if they want to keep getting big dollars. They will be provided with the opportunity this year, so if they fall short don't expect to see either in a Wild uniform next year.
Can Backstrom Stay Healthy?
Mike Yeo may have made a terrible mistake by placing such a ridiculous workload on his goaltender last year. During warm-ups in game 1 on the playoffs, Backstrom suffered a lower-body injury that may have been related to his insane 41-game workload. He later underwent sports hernia surgery before signing a 3-year extension with the team. His workload will be heavy again this year and he will be relied upon, but lower body injuries are deadly for goaltenders, so hopes are high in Minny that he is 100% and won't suffer long term. Should Backstrom get hurt, things don't look so good for the Wild.
A Budding Rivalry
The Jets and the Wild are going to become one heck of a rivalry. Even before the Jets came back, fans from Winnipeg made regular trips to Minnesota, and often drew the hatred of the hometown fans (I've seen it with my own eyes, they don't like us). The back and forth and eventual playoff matchups are a recipe for hate, and this rivalry will certainly become a heated one.
If the young guns in the system and already on the team take a step forward, the Wild will be a team to fear. If Granlund's rookie season struggles continue, you will likely see a team very similar to last year's, fighting to slide themselves into the playoffs. There is a lot of pressure to perform in the "State of Hockey". If the team can't live up to it, changes will be on the way.


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As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Jack understands the importance of remembering and memorializing the tragic events surrounding 9/11
hoi.polloi wrote: Yeah, 2,977 including first responders would still not explain ... why the Pentagon and Shanksville are lumped together as the same attack!
Josephus estimated that 1.1 million people died in the siege of Jerusalem... Like all ancient historians, Josephus tended to exaggerate his numbers. Today most scholars believe that virtually all demographic figures from antiquity are overstated and that a good many of them have numerological significance.
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Amid a series of controversial U.S. air strikes against high-level Al-Qaeda officials in the Arabian Peninsula, and renewed military cooperation with Yemen, officials in Sanaa are now expecting to get a supply of weaponry from the Pentagon, including four of their own UAVs.
An anonymous Yemeni defense official, who was not authorized to speak with the press, tells Aviation Week that Yemen is receiving four AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven UAVs. The 1.9-kg Raven is equipped with sensors for target acquisition, and infrared cameras capable of displaying persons carrying weapons.
"This type of technology would be very appropriate for Yemen's frontline military units because it provides real-time intelligence from the battlefield to launch strikes while minimizing troops' exposure to surprise attacks," according to Aysh Awas, director of security and strategic studies at Sheba, a think tank here in the Yemeni capital.
The equipment marks a significant change in U.S. military cooperation with Yemen, which was suspended until earlier this year. Moreover, the U.S. Defense Department traditionally has kept a close hold on any UAV technologies, exporting them almost exclusively to close Western allies.
Last year, the U.S. provided 85 Ravens to Islamabad, Pakistan, another critical -- albeit questionable -- ally in the ongoing war against Al-Qaeda. Like Pakistan, however, many questions remain over the future of U.S.-Yemeni relations following the country's tumultuous Arab Spring-inspired uprisings last year, which unseated 33-year President Ali Abdullah Saleh and transferred power to his deputy, Major Field Marshall Abd Rabu Mansur Hadi.
Victories aside, Awas claims Yemen's elite, U.S.-funded and trained Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) lacks vital support from the Yemeni air force (YAF). "Put simply, the fight against Al Qaeda in Yemen is a guerrilla war, and winning such wars requires special weapons and military equipment, including helicopters and transport aircrafts," he says.
"Yemen's air force does not have these weapons in required numbers to meet the needs of its 120 CTU operatives," he adds. Indeed, YAF's Cold War-era fleet comprises around 375 aircraft, of which only about 60% are operational due to years of neglect and mismanagement, according to a 2011 study by the Abaad Strategic Studies and Research Center here.
However, Washington has been attempting to develop air support for the CTU since 2006 under so-called Section 1206 authority, named after that part of the 2006 defense authorization act which allows training and equipping of foreign militaries for counterterrorism operations.
The Pentagon so far has spent more than $300 million of these funds on the YAF, CTU and Yemeni Special Operations Forces, making the impoverished country the largest overall recipient of Section 1206 funding to date.
A major spike in Section 1206 spending came in fiscal 2010 in reaction to the failed 2009 Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner. The bulk of the funds went to purchase four Huey II (UH-1H) helicopters and a CN-235-300M medium-range twin-turboprop transport aircraft.
Delivery was halted in early 2011, however, as the peaceful, youth-led uprisings of the Yemeni Arab Spring quickly devolved into a violent battle and forced the U.S. military to suspend its cooperation and evacuate personnel from the country.
Recent stability, however, has allowed Washington to ease some restrictions. "Given the election of a new president and Yemen's critical security needs, earlier this year we gradually resumed our suspended security assistance for components of the Yemeni military that are engaged in the fight against Al-Qaeda," says Navy Cmdr. Bill Speaks, a Pentagon representative.
In July, the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense approved $23.4 million to enhance the YAF's fixed-wing capability to conduct counterterrorism operations by providing training and equipment, including two short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft and support to CASA CN-235 cargo/transport aircraft, he says.
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I have, until now, had trouble believing that this move would actually happen. And then when I learned my passport was lost last week, I thought my suspicions had been confirmed. But now that I have my opholdstilladelse, it's starting to seem real. That and the fact that our apartment is basically empty (or in boxes ready to be loaded onto a large ocean-going container).
I'm not nervous. I'm not sad. I feel like I did before The Bois was born. Like I can hardly wait for a wonderful new phase of life to begin.
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Experience the Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing on your iPadLetterMpress™ will be a virtual letterpress environment—released first on the iPad—that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints.
The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.
So why bother re-creating what's considered to be an obsolete process for the new technology of the iPad?
Actually, a letterpress and an iPad operate similarly when it comes to manipulating objects in a composition. Just like placing blocks of wood type on a surface, you drag the type images across the iPad, and then move them around to create your design. This is why the iPad would make an ideal platform for people to experience the creative aspects of letterpress and typography.
A growing interest in letterpress—but difficult to accessIn fact, letterpress has had a growing interest over the past decade amongst designers, artists, and printmakers. Call it a reaction to the "perfect" look of laser-printing. Letterpress—especially wood type—evokes a handcrafted appearance that accompanies thoughtful, visual, and literal expression.
But unfortunately, much of the letterpress's traditional technology was sold for scrap metal and replaced with computers over the last 30 years. Wood type was burned, thrown in a landfill, or divided up as knick-knacks in antique and craft shops. The destruction of manual presses and thousands of type collections has made the tools of letterpress a scarce resource these days. What's left of traditional letterpress machines, wood type, and printing paraphernalia now fetch premium collector prices because of the growing interest in this art. And complete sets of wood type are rare—bidding wars drive up the prices to several hundreds of dollars.
Our goal: Our goal is to give designers, artists, students, lovers of type—anyone—the ability to produce their own authentic letterpress designs and artwork. And that's where this project starts and where we need your help!
Current feedback: We've shown our prototype to letterpress printers, designers, and artists, and they are just as excited as we are about this project!
NEEDED: Beautiful wood type—for everyoneBut to make LetterMpress truly beneficial to a creative audience, we need to offer an outstanding collection of authentic wood type and vintage "cuts." We have a supporter who's willing to part with a substantial portion of a historic collection purchased from type foundries and print shops when they closed in the '70s and '80s.
The amount we need and how we will use the funds: To acquire this collection, we need to raise at least $15,000. Along with these rare, complete collections of wood type, additional funds will also allow us to get help creating the high-resolution photos and scans of the wood type and their corresponding impressions.
The type that we aquire will be housed at a new letterpress co-op called the "Living Letter Press." This co-op will be a resource to designers, artists, students, and anyone interested in learning letterpress.
The end product is just the startPricing LetterMpress: We want to make LetterMpress accessible to all, and plan to price it at $5.99 for the base iPad version. We plan to include at least 12 typefaces, and about 50 art "cuts," to which we will add to as we update the app. Pricing for other platforms will be determined by the amount of functionality and size of files generated. Why we need the physical type: Having access to the physical types is a critical part of a later stage* of the LetterMpress venture, which will be to offer authentic letterpress prints from the designs submitted by LetterMpress users. Think about it: Wouldn't it be great to get -real- letterpress prints from your own designs?
Help us make this happen!With your support, we hope to make LetterMpress a creative resource for designers, artists, students, and anyone who wants to experience the art, craft, and tradition of letterpress.
What you get in return: To show our appreciation for your pledge, we're offering some great rewards including participation in our beta program, limited edition letterpress art prints, wood type, and the opportunity to name your own typeface in the LetterMpress App.
Check out the list of rewards to see what best suits you. Whatever level you decide, we want to thank you for being part of a growing community that's committed to keeping the art and craft of letterpress alive.
Thank you for your time!
*This later stage is not part of the initial stage of the LetterMpress project.
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I took some understandable flak last week when my "what to do at level 90" column contained a dearth of specifics. Well, fear not! This week's installment is all specifics, all the time. In fact, this column and the one to follow are going to be filled with so much specific, easily quantifiable information that your brains, trained by months of political campaign speeches to accept vague platitudes as factual policy, may not be able to process it.
My aim over the next two weeks is to provide you with a compendium of all the currently available mage gear from the heroic threshold of item-level 435 on up to best in slot. No matter where your mage is along the gear-grubbing spectrum, you should be able to look at these lists, identify an upgrade, and know where said upgrade is obtained.


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Ross Douthat continues the discussion on Republican foreign policy reform:
Now none of this is worth doing, obviously, if you don't share any of the G.O.P. base's sensitivities and concerns. There's a version of realism that really doesn't have a home in the post-Reagan Republican Party — one that tends to put its faith in Davos bromides rather than American sovereignty, that regards Israel as the source of almost every Middle Eastern problem, that's allergic to the language of American exceptionalism, and that's basically left-of-center on most non-foreign policy questions and culturally alienated from the religious conservatism that lies at the heart of the G.O.P. coalition [bold mine-DL].
But the fact that realists who fall into this category (like Colin Powell) or else have drifted into it (like Hagel, since 2004 or so) are now regarded with hostility by most Republicans emphatically does not mean that it's impossible to sell a more restrained foreign policy vision to the Republican electorate. You just have to actually, you know, sell it — which means arguing for it on conservative grounds, addressing its impact on causes and concerns right-wing voters hold dear, and (perhaps above all) not behaving as though you think the people you're trying to persuade are yahoos, fanatics or both.
That must be why Republican and movement conservative leaders have always responded so much more favorably to Pat Buchanan's foreign policy arguments than they have to Powell's and Hagel's in the past. Oh, wait, that's right. This has never happened. Buchanan has consistently avoided virtually every one of the habits to which some internationalists might be prone, and it did him and advocates for a more restrained foreign policy very little good. Buchanan was mostly pitching a "Jacksonian" message to Republicans throughout the 1990s and has continued to so. Along the same lines, antiwar conservatives have been arguing for over ten years against aggressive foreign policy, preventive war, and military overreach on explicitly conservative grounds. We make arguments against the wastefulness and fiscal irresponsibility of unnecessary wars. We highlight the harm that war causes to military families, we make direct appeals to pro-life conservatives about the evils of unnecessary war and condemn the disdain for human life and dignity that go with it. We point to the strains that perpetual war puts on the military and on the men and women serving in it. We call attention to the damage that the warfare and security state does to our national security and to our constitutional liberties, and we rail against the growth in state power that perpetual war causes. I believe that there are many conservatives and Republicans still open to these arguments, provided that they are able to hear and read them on a regular basis.
There is a real and growing constituency in the GOP that is responding to these and other related arguments, but you would never know it by looking at conservative media outlets or the vast majority of Republicans in Washington, almost all of whom continue to talk about foreign policy and national security as if the last ten years never happened (or as if they represented a great vindication of the genius of hard-line policies). This growing constituency doesn't need to be sold on a more restrained foreign policy–they already favor it. The ongoing problem is that this constituency has virtually no representation in Congress or among those that speak for the Republican Party on foreign policy, and party and movement leaders make of point of trying to keep it that way.
It's also not true that Powell and Hagel fall into the category that Douthat describes. Is Powell "allergic to the language of American exceptionalism"?* Does he actually view Israel as the source of "almost every Middle East problem"? Obviously not. Do these descriptions apply to Hagel? The people running the smear campaign against might like you to think so, but there's no truth to it. In fact, I doubt that there are very many people anywhere on the right to whom this description applies in the real world. The truth is that Powell and Hagel's views on cultural and domestic issues didn't change much at all between, say, 2000 and 2008. Powell and Hagel used to be lauded as possible presidential or vice presidential candidates in spite of their disagreements with conservatives on some domestic issues, and there was plenty of room for their kind of realists so long as they ultimately fell in line behind lousy foreign policy ideas. To the extent that Powell and Hagel changed in the last ten years, they became even more skeptical of military action, more critical of Republican foreign policy arguments, and more willing to break ranks with the party when its presidential nominee embodied the worst sort of unthinking hawkishness. These are the reasons they are now viewed with suspicion and loathing in their party. Let's not pretend that it has much of anything to do with their domestic policy views or cultural politics.
* If there is an "allergy" to anything related to American exceptionalism among advocates of restraint, it is the natural reaction to the tendentious, false definition of American exceptionalism that has become popular as an ongoing justification for aggressive, activist foreign policy in the world. It is mainly the distortion of the phrase's proper meaning and its demagogic use that some of us find so irritating.


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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama 'Hug It Out' on Martha's Vineyard
President Agrees to Embrace Former Secretary of State Despite Her Criticism
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass.—President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton found themselves on the same small island Wednesday with very different objectives. The president was seeking an escape from the White House. His former secretary of state was taking steps that could land her there.
A scheduling quirk brought Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton to Martha's Vineyard just a few days after she caused a political kerfuffle with a pointed critique of the president's foreign policy, the sharpest sign of disagreement between the onetime rivals...


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Friday, 4 May 2007
Aux Batifolles
The front of house consists of one very capable man who refills your water and breadbasket an instant before you realise it's empty. A lovely man who indulges you with just enough French to bring back your school days but not so much you need a dictionary.
We start with the shared plate which features cured meats, pickles, a gorgeous goats cheese, a beautiful terrine, stuffed eggplant, smoked salmon blinis, and a solitary oyster. It's designed for one but easily feeds two.
The duck with confit leg served with pommes dauphinoise and Iranian figs is beautifully rich. The slices are juicy and tender while the confit leg meat melts away from the bone under the luscious crisp skin.
I convince The Writer to order the roast venison with blackcurrants and chestnuts. Soft slices of venison are paired perfectly with the sweet sauce. With the obligatory sides of pomme frites and a blue cheese and walnut salad I hope our arteries will forgive us.
We make the mature decision to skip dessert and finish with an espresso yet somehow as the waiter reads out the dessert specials a voice from our table says "one of those please" and neither of us has any regrets. Two proud little profiteroles arrive doused in chocolate sauce. They aren't exquisite but they are simple and comforting and as we chase the last crumbs around the plate I think that's what I like about this place. The food is not as refined as Libertine, the produce not as impressive and service not as smooth but it is a wonderful little spot.
The lovely Frenchman walks us to the door and I'm quite sure I'll be stepping through it again soon.
Aux Batifolles
400 Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy
Phone: 9481 5015
Dinner Tues-Sun 6pm-late
5 comments:
- Ellie said...
Looks like tasty fare! Good call on the profiteroles, I actually made some earlier this week with some pastry cream and choc sauce...but seeing that pic makes me want to make them again!
- 5 May 2007 at 12:15 am
- Haalo said...
I don't know if you've tried it but Paris Go is well worth a visit and also in that area.
- 5 May 2007 at 6:11 am
- Truffle said...
Ellie- Yours sound delicious. I've never made them myself but they are on my to do list.
Haalo- I actually read your review of aux batifolles before we went. I've driven past Paris Go many times and heard good things. I must visit soon! Thanks for the suggestion :)
- 5 May 2007 at 6:51 am
- Matthew said...
My girlfriend, who also reads your blog, just came into the room and demanded, on the basis of your review, that we eat here soon. I'd better do as I'm told...
- 5 May 2007 at 7:43 pm
- Truffle said...
Matthew- That's so lovely to hear and I love a man that does as he's told. The menu is quite retro in some ways but it's a romantic spot with dimmed lighting. Makes it hard to take foodie photos but creates a lovely atmosphere. I hope you two have a wonderful time there.
- 5 May 2007 at 9:19 pm


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An inquiry into allegations of child sex abuse at the heart of the establishment is likely to turn up fresh claims about the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted.
The Most Rev Justin Welby said it was something he dealt with daily and it was becoming clearer that "for many, many years things were not dealt with as they should have been dealt with".
Abuse survivors must now be shown justice and the Church must be "absolutely transparent" every step of the way, he told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show.
Asked if he was braced for the inquiry to uncover "bad stories", Archbishop Welby replied: "I would love to say there weren't, but I expect there are. There are in almost every institution in this land.
"This is, it's something I deal with every day and it is becoming clearer and clearer that for many, many years things were not dealt with as they should have been dealt with.
"And we must show justice to survivors of abuse. That is the first and absolute principle. And we must be absolutely transparent in every possible way and we have to keep saying how utterly devastated we are with the terrible things that were done in the past and how sorry we are."
It comes after the Home Office was yesterday again forced to defend the appointment of Baroness Butler-Sloss to run the inquiry amid claims she refused to go public about a bishop implicated in a scandal.
Lady Butler-Sloss told a victim of alleged abuse she did not want to include the allegations in a review of how the Church of England dealt with two paedophile priests because she "cared about the Church" and "the press would love a bishop", it was claimed.
It put fresh pressure on the former High Court judge, who has faced calls to step down after reports that her brother Sir Michael Havers tried to prevent ex-MP Geoffrey Dickens airing claims about a diplomat in Parliament in the 1980s.
Lady Butler-Sloss insisted that she has "never" put the reputation of an institution ahead of justice for victims.
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NIAGARA FALLS – City lawmakers have approved a six-month contract extension with the Niagara County SPCA.
The City Council on Wednesday voted, 4-1, to approve a deal for the remainder of the year under which the city will more than double its monthly payment to the agency for dog control and sheltering services.
The move will give the city time to evaluate its options for how it may proceed starting next year and beyond, officials said.
In a written statement issued Thursday, Mayor Paul A. Dyster said the city believes the "very substantial increase" in costs for the city "is the result of improvements at the facility moving in the direction of a "no kill philosophy."
Shelters with such philosophies aim to perform no unnecessary euthanasia.
However, the language in the contract extension contains no explicit mention of an adherence by the SPCA to such a philosophy, Dyster said.
"Moving forward, we will insist on incorporating assurances about operation of a 'no kill' facility into any future long-term contract renewal with the SPCA," Dyster said, "and we will continue over the next six months to explore other options for provision of sheltering services currently provided by SPCA."
Earlier this month, the SPCA announced it was cutting off dog control services after contract talks broke down.
The city then sought and obtained a restraining order, which blocked the agency from putting a halt to its services in the Falls.
Under the terms of the new deal, the city will pay $15,000 per month, up from the $6,960 a month it had been paying.
"The rate of the expired contract did not keep pace with the times, the costs of the various animal services the shelter provides or the 'no kill' initiative we have undertaken as a core part of our mission," SPCA Treasurer David A. Urban said in a written statement.
State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. helped hammer out the deal between the two sides by last week, though at the time Dyster said the city would need more financial detail from the SPCA before the contract extension would be submitted to the Council.
A meeting between city and SPCA officials was held late Tuesday afternoon to go over financial figures from the agency.
The SPCA has said it was losing $150,000 a year under its previous contract with the Falls.
The city sought the court order to block services from being cut because it had no dog control officer or alternative kennel arrangements.
Councilwoman Kristen M. Grandinetti cast the sole vote against the contract extension.
"I felt that the SPCA had strong-armed us in requesting that much more additional money," Grandinetti said Thursday.
In their written statement, SPCA officials said the six-month agreement allows both sides time to continue talks.
"This vote of the Council provides a short-term contract that moves toward a more reasonable fee for the services our community shelter provides to the citizens of Niagara Falls," Board President Michelle D. Madigan said, "although it still does not reflect the true total costs."
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Cabbage rolls are easily made. They are lamb, pork, or beef stretched with rice and seasoned lightly. These are packed into cute packages made from boiled cabbage leaves. The rolls then bake smothered with sauce.
Cabbage rolls once were next to religion hereabouts. You had a pan of them simmering in the oven while you were at church.
Sunday cabbage rolls are a Middle European tradition. In Croatia, they took a poll and found 97 percent of all women loved them more than men. No comment.
Diner cooks took notice and created "pigs in a blanket." That's ground sausage. (The name also denotes sausage links rolled in biscuit dough).
Cabbage rolls are easily made. They are lamb, pork, or beef stretched with rice and seasoned lightly. These are packed into cute packages made from boiled cabbage leaves. The rolls then bake smothered with sauce.
The sauce depends on your ancestors. Middle Eastern? That's tomato with garlic. Polish offer a light sauce made with tomato or V8 juice. Swedish are milk or cream white sauces.
German is tomato sauce sweetened with brown sugar. Their alternative was a stuffing of smoked pork and sauerkraut in kraut juice, topped with sour cream at the table, the memorable Krautoladen.
Pigs in a blanket assumed regional American treatments. A favorite in Savannah adds cornbread mix to the ground sausage with a sauce made from apple cider.
Stuffed cabbage can be anything you say it is. Start with a basic recipe and begin experimenting. Then try the really different recipe, handed to me by Karen Miniz, a Munich favorite.
2 quarts water
12 large cabbage leaves
1 cup carrot rounds, boiled
1 pound mixture of ground beef and sausage, browned
1/4 cup uncooked long-grain rice (not instant)
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups tomato sauce
1 medium red onion, chopped
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
Boil water in a large pan. Add cabbage and cook until leaves soften, about 7 minutes. Drain and cool.
Purée carrot in blender or food processor, then mix with meat, rice, parsley, salt and egg. Divide mixture and spoon onto each leaf. Fold in ends and roll up. Place seam-side down in a baking pan. Add onion, pepper, garlic and a dash of ground cinnamon to 1 1/2 cups tomato sauce, simmer 10 minutes and and pour over the rolls. Cover and bake for one hour at 350 degrees, then uncover and bake for 30 minuted to thicken sauce. Serves 6.
1/2 cup dark beer
1/4 cup dry sherry
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 cup golden or dark raisins or currants
1/2 tablespoon flour
Soak raisins in beer and sherry for one hour. Mix dry ingredients. Fold in vinegar, water, raisins and their liquid. Whisk over medium heat until syrup forms. Pour over baking dish of cabbage leaves stuffed with ground ham and rice. Bake as above. May be served hot of cold. Serves 6.
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