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Nothing went as planned for the Columbus Crew in Illinois this week.
It began with their fourth-round match of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup at Chicago on Wednesday being postponed 16-and-a-half hours because of severe weather.
Then, when the game was played Thursday midday, an ad hoc Crew lineup became more scrambled when center back Gláuber had to leave in the 9th minute because of a knee injury.
Not surprisingly, and despite a historic goal by Konrad Warzycha, the Crew fell out of the tournament named for their founder after a 2-1 defeat to the Fire at Toyota Park.
Crew coach Robert Warzycha said the extent of the injury is unknown but that Gláuber is expected to have an MRI on Friday.
READ: Crew injuries piling up, forcing lineup changes: "We don't have much of a choice"
"He landed awkward. There's some swelling in the knee," Robert Warzycha said in a phone interview. "[The injury] put us behind the eight ball because we had to shift some players around. It really changed the game for us."
Forward Dominic Oduro replaced the Brazilian defender to start the reshuffling. Justin Meram moved from up top to the flank; Ethan Finlay switched to right back from the midfield and right back Eric Gehrig took over Glauber's spot.
"There was bit of adversity," goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum told MLSsoccer.com by phone. "We have to deal with what we've got."
The loss of Gláuber was the second major blow to the Crew in as many Open Cup games. Midfielder Eddie Gaven suffered a season-ending torn ACL on May 29 in a win vs. the Dayton Dutch Lions.
Even with the risk of having another starter injured, head coach Warzycha planned to field many of them against the Fire but that all changed when storms rolled through the Chicago area on Wednesday.
READ: Reserve League: Crew play to wild 4-4 draw against Dayton Dutch Lions
The Crew, unlike the Fire who are off until June 19, have a game Saturday against Montreal (7:30 pm ET, watch on MLS Live) so Oduro, forward Federico Higuaín and midfielders Matías Sánchez and Danny O'Rourke did not start the rescheduled match.
Yet the Crew took the lead when Konrad Warzycha scored on a header off a Ben Speas free kick in the 22nd minute, to mark the first time a father-son duo had each scored in the Open Cup in the modern era.
"I got inside of my man and Ben delivered a good ball," Konrad Warzycha said. "I tried to make contact and put it on goal. Luckily it went in."
The elder Warzycha scored for Columbus in the 56th minute of a 3-2 semifinal loss to Rochester at Virginia Beach, Va., on Sept. 1, 1999.

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"String of Pearls," by Michele Lowe, is all about women. Directed by Maurizio Giammarco, the show now running at Allens Lane pulls out all the stops.
"Pearls" is more a sequence of vignettes than a drama. Beth is a 74-year-old grandmother who wants to bequeath the family heirloom, a string of pearls, to her granddaughter. When Beth discovers the pearls missing, we are off to the races.
Six actresses — Anne Bailis, Ginny Kaufmann, Ren Manley, Susan Mattson, Jessica Snow and Susan Triggiani — portray no fewer than 27 women. As they travel the world, they rub elbows with women from all stations of life, and those miraculous pearls keep popping up.
"Pearls" is not the first drama to weave a story around a single, recurring prop. The pearls constitute what there is of plot, and they show up everywhere — in a vacuum cleaner, a casket, a jewelry store and the belly of a fish. Though there are common bonds, they mean something different to every woman who holds them in her hands.
The individual scenes are mostly monologues. The actresses obviously perform multiple roles and use all sorts of accents, costumes and miming. It is a credit to their skill that they make you believe you keep on seeing different women.
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The Azure Code Samples are currently available in English
Microsoft Azure Billing API Code Samples: RateCard API
A simple Python script that calls the Azure Billing RateCard REST API to retrieve the list of resources per Azure offer in a given subscription, along with the pricing details for each resource. The Microsoft Azure Billing APIs enable integration of Azure Billing information into your applications, providing new insights into your consumption of Azure resources, allowing you to accurately predict and manage your Azure resource consumption costs.
To learn more about the Billing Usage and RateCard APIs, visit the overview article Gain insights into your Microsoft Azure resource consumption. Please note, the Billing APIs were in Preview at the time of this writing. Please refer to MSDN article Azure Billing REST API Reference for current details on the Billing APIs.
Complete billing samples index
Below is the list of all of the available Azure Billing API code samples:
- billing-dotnet-usage-api - This sample will help you get started with the Usage API.
- billing-dotnet-ratecard-api - This sample help you get started with the RateCard API.
- billing-python-ratecard-api - This sample help you get started with the RateCard API.
- billing-java-ratecard-api - This sample help you get started with the RateCard API.
- billing-dotnet-webapp-multitenant - This Multi-Tenant sample creates a WebApp that allows the signed-in user to give it consent, to call the Azure Graph API and the Usage API on the user's behalf. It also shows the OAuth flows required to get consent for the 'Reader' role, to access the list of Microsoft Azure subscriptions that the user wants to allow access to.
High level design
How To Run This Sample
To run this sample you will need:
- Visual Studio Code or your favorite Python editor
- An Internet connection
- An Azure subscription (a free trial is sufficient)
You will also need to be comfortable with the following tasks:
- Using the Azure portal (or working with your administrator) to do configuration work
- Using Git and Github to bring the sample code down to your local machine
- Using Python to run the sample
Every Azure subscription has an associated Azure Active Directory (AAD) tenant. If you don't already have an Azure subscription, you can get a free subscription by signing up at http://wwww.windowsazure.com.
Step 1: Configure a Native Client application in your AAD tenant
Before you can run the sample application, you will need to allow it to access your AAD tenant for authentication and authorization to access the Billing APIs. If you already have a Native Client Application configured that you would like to use (and it is configured according to the steps below), you can jump to Step 2.
To configure a new AAD application:
- Sign in to the Azure portal, using credentials that have been granted service administrator/co-administrator access on the subscription which is trusting your AAD tenant, and granted Global Administrator access in the AAD tenant. See Manage Accounts, Subscriptions, and Administrative Roles for details on managing the service administrator and co-administrators.
- Select the AAD tenant you wish to use, and go to the "Applications" page.
- From there, you can use the "Add" feature to "Add a new application my organization is developing".
- Provide a name (ie: ConsoleApp-Billing-RateCard or similar) for the new application.
- Be sure to select the "Native Client Application" type, then specify a valid URL for "Redirect URI" (which can be http://localhost/ for the purposes of this sample), and click the check mark to save.
- After you've added the new application, select it again within the list of applications and click "Configure" so you can make sure the sample app will have permissions to access the Windows Azure Service Management APIs, which is the permission used to secure the Billing APIs.
Scroll down to the to the "Permissions to other applications" section of your newly created application's configuration page. Then click the "Add Application" button, select the "Windows Azure Service Management" row, and click the check mark to save. After saving, hover the "Delegated Permissions" area on the right side of the "Windows Azure Service Management" row, click the "Delegated Permissions" drop down list, select the "Access Azure Service Management (preview)" option, and click "Save" again.
NOTE: the "Windows Azure Active Directory" permission "Enable sign-on and read users' profiles" is enabled by default. It allows users to sign in to the application with their organizational accounts, enabling the application to read the profiles of signed-in users, such as their email address and contact information. This is a delegation permission, and gives the user the ability to consent before proceeding. Please refer to Adding, Updating, and Removing an Application for more depth on configuring an Azure AD tenant to enable an application to access your tenant.
While you are on this page, also note/copy the "Client ID" GUID and "Redirect URI", as you will use these in Step #3 below. You will also need your Azure Subscription ID and AAD tenant domain name, both of which you can copy from the "Settings" page in the management portal.
Step 2: If you haven't already, Clone or download the billing-dotnet-ratecard-api repository
From your shell (ie: Git Bash, etc.) or command line, run the following command :
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/billing-python-ratecard-api.git
Step 3: Run the script against your AAD tenant
When finished with Step 3, you should be able to successfully run the application, which will prompt you for your Azure AD credentials. Upon successful authentication, the API will be called and the results will be displayed in the console window.
The application first fetches an access token using credentials of the signed-in user, then gets the RateCard response and deserializes it and prints it to the console.
Below is a list of common errors you may receive, if your application or user account is not configured correctly.
401 Unauthorized HTTP error
This is typically caused by either an invalid SubscriptionID value , or a valid Subscription ID that is not being trusted for authentication by the specified Azure AD tenant (TenantDomain value).
Make sure the value you enter for SubscriptionID is both a valid subscription and it is associated with the Azure AD tenant you specified for the TenantDomain value. You can verify this in the Azure classic portal by logging in with a service admin/co-admin account for the given subscription, and navigate to the "Settings/Subscriptions" page:
You should see the GUID for the subscription under the "Subscription ID" column, and the DNS name for your Azure AD tenant under the "Directory" column (shown in a
Friendly-Name (DNS-Name) format).
For more details on the trust relationship between the Azure subscription and Azure AD, please see How Azure subscriptions are associated with Azure AD.
403 Forbidden HTTP error
The Azure Billing REST APIs are implemented as a Resource Provider as part of the Azure Resource Manager, and therefore share its dependencies. Access control for Azure Resource Manager uses the built-in "Owner", "Contributor", and "Reader" roles, via the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) feature in the Azure Portal to secure resources. For details on configuring, see Role-based access control in the Microsoft Azure portal.
There are typically 2 things to look for if you are receiving this error :
Signed-in user does not belong to specified Azure AD tenant: In order for the application to access your subscription (and billing information), it must obtain an access token from Azure AD. In order for it to obtain an access token, it will prompt you to authenticate using credentials from the Azure AD tenant being trusted by your subscription.
As such, make sure you authenticate using credentials from the Azure AD tenant being trusted by your subscription. If you're not sure which Azure AD tenant is being trusted for authentications by your subscriptions, see the "401 Unauthorized" error above for instructions.
Signed-in user does not belong to correct role: in addition to the above requirement, make the signed-in user is a member of either the 'Reader', 'Owner' or 'Contributor' roles for the specified subscription. By default, all service administrators are members of the Owner role. If you attempt sign-in with a valid user from the Azure AD tenant being trusted by the subscription, but don't configure role membership correctly, you may experience a "401 Unauthorized" error.
AADSTS65005 Azure AD exception
This error is typically caused by incorrect or missing permission requests in the application's configuration. See steps #1.6 and #1.7 above for more information.
Need Help?
Be sure to check out the Azure forums on StackOverflow and MSDN if you are having trouble. The Azure Billing product team actively monitors the forums and will be more than happy to assist you.
If you would like to provide feedback on the Billing APIs or ideas on how we can improve them, please visit the Azure Feedback Forums.
Contribute Code or Provide Feedback
If you would like to become an active contributor to this project please follow the instructions provided in Microsoft Azure Projects Contribution Guidelines.
If you encounter any bugs with the library please file an issue in the Issues section of the repository.


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The IRONMAN 70.3 event, which has taken place for 26 years now in St. Croix, attracts people from all over the world to tackle one of the toughest courses on the circuit. To put in perspective how difficult it is, consider this: IRONMAN 70.3 St. George is thought to be a very challenging, hilly and demanding course. If you compare the winning times at the two, the men went 3:45 in St. George and 4:07 in St. Croix, while the women went 4:09 in St. George and 4:30 in St. Croix. Both races had stellar, high-end, pro fields.
The heat, humidity, hills and wind in St. Croix can only be compared to one other place-Kona, the site of the IRONMAN World Championship. It is the challenge of this iconic race that brings many to St. Croix the first weekend of May each year, although qualifying slots for the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships don't hurt. Once here, though, it is the stunning beauty of the island and the wonderful and welcoming locals who make the experience so special. This is why people like three-time Champion, Tim O'Donnell, and multiple IRONMAN World Champions Mirinda Carfrae and Craig Alexander consider this one of their favorite places to race and visit. Former pros Wendy Ingraham and Ken Glah make the pilgrimage annually, and their experiences go well beyond simply the race.
At the awards banquet both winning professionals, O'Donnell and first-time champion, Radka Vodickova, lauded the locals, the stunning scenery and the wonderful home stays provided to them.
The age group athletes feel the same way. Like the pros, the day after the race, many age groupers took a jaunt over to the incredible snorkeling Mecca of Buck Island, or simply enjoyed a relaxing day on the beach. Eclectic shops and cool places to eat are plentiful in Christiansted, as well. And, based on my conversations with more than one family attending the race with kids, the island and the spectacular atmosphere is very "kid friendly."
Highlights from the day
Thanks to the Kona and Mont-Tremblant qualifying slots, St. Croix annually attracts some of the top age group athletes in the world. This year was no exception. Kona regulars dominated the awards stage, including an incredible display of talent in the women's 55 to 59 age group. The top three women were brought up for their awards and invites to Kona and Mont-Tremblant, led by perennial Kona champion or runner-up, Ellen Hart. There was one Kona slot and, remarkably, all three ladies had already secured their ticket to the big dance prior to this weekend. When awards emcee, Dave Ragsdale, did the roll down, not one of the remaining four finishers were there! As a result the Kona slot was added to women's 40 to 44 category and promptly snatched up.
Dave Harju, 49, did his first triathlon on Sunday ... as an age grouper. A long-time pro and two-time IRONMAN Wisconsin champion from Canada, Dave recognizes his days of racing the 20 and 30 year olds are over, and was actually quite excited about racing as an age grouper. The differences he found? The first was in the swim.
"I started out in our wave with two other guys and we were together until we caught up with the age groupers who went off ahead of us and, I lost them. With the pros, you don't have that," explained Harju after the race. Harju went 4:40:53 to win the men's 45 to 49 age group by just over 10 minutes.
Mauren Solano, a bubbly, happy 19-year-old from Costa Rica, produced the fastest female age group time of the day, 5:09:29, which would have placed her ninth among the professional women. Still a student and also working part-time, Solano has already racked up four IRONMAN 70.3 wins and is looking forward to heading to Kona.
On the other end of the spectrum was Cherie Gruenfeld competing in her new age group, women's 70 to 74. If you ever wanted to appreciate the many benefits of staying fit and being a triathlete, meet Cherie. She is heading to Kona for the 20th ime in October. Gruenfeld is a true competitor, not "simply' a participant. While she says she is frustrated that she can no longer do the times she used to do, she will keep on competing 'as long as I am racing, not just slugging it out till the finish line. And, that day's not yet," says the Californian legend. She also gives back to the sport by heading up a program called "Exceeding Expectations," which serves "an inner-city population [and] is designed to encourage at-risk kids to move their lives in a positive direction, using the sport of triathlon," according to the event website. (eefoundation.org)
How about "all-everything," Adam Zucco? The 39-year-old from Illinois was the first overall amateur in 4:31:58, good enough to tie him with the 10th place professional male. Zucco is Joe Friel's partner at Training Bible Coaching. He is coached by U.S. Olympian (2000), Ryan Bolton, while he coaches U.S. ITU standout and 2013 USA Triathlon Collegiate National Champion, Ben Kanute. This was Zucco's fourth trip to St. Croix and his result ensures he'll be competing in Kona for the eighth year in a row.
What great event doesn't end with a love story? When Cristi DeDoes of Kalamazoo, Michigan crossed the finish line, she was ecstatic. Her boyfriend, Zach Novak, was there to greet her, having already finished the race. He hugged her, kissed her, placed her finisher's medal around her neck, then reached into the back pocket of his race jersey, pulled out a box and proposed. DeDoes went from happy to overjoyed immediately.
Barry Siff had an enjoyable time taking on the "Beast" himself this year. He is on the Timex, PowerBar, and Tri Bike Transport Elite Teams, as well as President of the USA Triathlon Board of Directors. He lives in Boulder and Tucson with Jodee and Jackpot.


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This post originally appeared on Ted Hope's blog Hope For Film
I don't have any statistics on this, but from what I can gather anecdotally, forming a non-profit to make a fictional feature film is a pretty rare thing, but it's what I've done for my new (second) feature, Test, and it's been a great experience. Mostly great. At first I did have to endure snarky questions from my non-filmmaking friends, along the lines of: "Aren't you just admitting your film won't make any money?" Well, no... (more on that later). From my filmmaking friends the response was more of a blank stare, followed by: "I don't know anyone else who's done that."
There are a lot of filmmakers out there who make one feature and then stop. They didn't break through to that magical "next level," and there's no way they're doing the same thing all over again. But for those of us who are determined to keep making films on a small scale, truly independently -- and who actually enjoy it -- it makes sense to explore new models in a distribution landscape that's in the midst of its own creative destruction and reconfiguring.
Maybe there are filmmakers out there like me who had some very modest success with a first feature -- you sold it to a small distributor and/or cable, you got it on Netflix, you made a few foreign sales -- and you want to do it again. But you also want to retain creative power and control. Doing that means thinking small, as in small budgets and a realistic business (or non-profit) model.
What I'm talking about here is an ultra-low-budget feature without stars, made for, say, 200 to 300K. The kind of movie that may do a two-week theatrical in select cities but then lives mostly on the internet and cable. It's seems to me that the ontology of a film like that is a lot closer to other projects that use non-profits -- e.g., documentary films, dance companies, off-Broadway productions -- than it is to a large-scale independent film with stars and a budget in the millions, let alone to a Hollywood production.
A non-profit isn't right for all projects, obviously. Comedies without any socially relevant/meaningful content, for example, wouldn't make sense. And yes, you do need to prove "educational value" to the IRS. The non-profit I've created, Serious Productions, Inc., will have a life beyond Test and has a broader mission statement that Test fits into: to capture aspects of LGBT lives and experience that might otherwise be lost in the bigger historical narratives that dominate. Test is set in 1985 San Francisco, and takes a very personal look at young dancers caught up in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. It's a story that hasn't been told and might be lost if it isn't.
After Test has finished its festival, theatrical and initial VOD runs (fingers crossed!), my non-profit will still exist and can become an incubator for future material and a means to cultivate future collaborators. I can imagine projects under the non-profit rubric (oral histories, video portraits) that keep me working and generating material in between the long span that inevitably separates feature films these days, and these projects can, in turn, generate material for those future features.
So I've probably raised more questions than I've answered, but here's a list, in no particular order, of what I've liked about forming a non-profit. Maybe there are some answers embedded in here:
- You can still pay yourself a fee as a writer/director/producer/editor, etc., and you can of course still pay everyone who works for you.
- You can still form an LLC for those investors who really want to invest rather than donate (bless them!). I have an LLC for TEST, and about 25% of my budget comes from private equity investment.
- Actual investors will recoup much faster, because the grants and donations don't need to recoup.
- Fewer K-1s to send out at tax time!
- Your non-profit can buy units in your LLC, so that some money recoups to the non-profit for overhead. This gets tricky; talk to a lawyer.
- You don't need to set up Fiscal Sponsorship in order to apply for grants or accept donations -- you are your own 501-c-3 -- and you don't lose the 5-7% cut that a fiscal sponsor takes.
- The world of grants for fictional features is small, but it's a great world and great to explore, full of people who care about movies and content. The San Francisco Film Society is one organization that's granted me on Test (via the Kenneth Rainin Foundation) and they've been an amazing partner on the project.
- Beyond actual grants, there is also a whole world of foundations out there that are basically set up by wealthy individuals who need to write off money for tax purposes. Some of these people love independent film!
- Anyone can give you a tax-deductible donation; you are not limited to grants and foundations.
- If you do a Kickstarter campaign, you can offer your donors a tax deduction via your 501-c-3, something that Kickstarter itself cannot do.
- Fundraising is more emotionally rewarding! When people are donating rather than investing, because they care about the material in a different way, the whole vibe is different. To me, the relationship feels less cynical and more genuine.
A final word: you can't do any of this without a good lawyer who already understands the non-profit landscape, preferably from working with documentary filmmakers. Also, you can't fake it. Your content really does have to be serious.


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Fly By Night (31,1,2)
Lab Theatre
Our calendar is a comprehensive look at Music, Theatre, and Art events throughout the year, and is aligned with the master NSHS calendar located on the school website. Use the performance group key below to identify which groups are performing during our concerts. All concerts will be held in the NSHS Seasholes Auditorium starting at 7pm unless otherwise stated. South Stage productions begin at 7:30pm.
Festivals take place in and around the greater Boston area and are mainly held on weekends. They are a great way to test your musical ability against some of the top players in the area. Most festivals are attended on an elective basis, however, at times your conductor will take an ensemble to a festival as a whole group. A complete list of NSHS sponsored festivals for the School Year is below. Check the Information Sheet listed for each event to find out specific requirements.
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Concert Band = CB; Madrigals = MAD; NS Chorale = NSC; Vocal Ensemble = VE; Symphonic Band =SB; Harambee = HB Wind Ensemble = WE; Lab Jazz = LJ; Jazz Ensemble = JE; Improv 2 = IM2; Improv 3 = IM3; Combo = CO; Orchestra = OR Festival Singers = FS. Festival are in italics and take place off of the NSHS campus.
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A very Duxbury Christmas
I honestly thought I could get through my last few winter weeks on the farm without a single snowstorm. I'm also that girl that never thought it would rain on her wedding day and got married outside on the beach.
Naturally, it poured.
And we got 22 inches of snow in Duxbury this past weekend.
The snow made for a picturesque ride down to the farm on Monday, especially since Berg made the call to put us on the tide at 6:45 a.m. We arrived to find the sun rising over the snow-covered beach and our Oysterplex trimmed in icicles.
There was a lot of busy work involved with that much snow. A2, Quinn (who's back in town for a few days on winter break) and I ran up to the shop to grab the farm truck only to find it completely snowed in. We shoveled it out (at one point, Billy Bennett stopped to watch us shovel and yell out: "Not what you signed up for, was it Erin?") and ran it back down to the water so we could pick up the cages, which Berg and Chris had hauled out of the water for us. We made a few trips, getting several dozen cages out and stored away in the process. Our short day ended when the tide came up -- we celebrated our mini success with a big breakfast at Persy's.
Last week, we had purposely put a massive pile of bags into the cooler so that we could all take some time off for Christmas. Last Thursday and Friday were impressive: Despite sub-freezing temps, Pops (who is also back for winter break), Will, and Berg washed a ridiculous number of crates so we could load up the truck and get this huge stack of oysters packed away. Hopefully Santa is delivering a few bags like these to you and yours this week.
Monday was also the Island Creek Christmas party, a raucous affair that started at 4 pm and ended well past midnight. We set up a raw bar in the shop and a liquor bar in the office which made for a number of freezing-cold sprints from one venue to the next.
It was a wild night for the whole family. Skip pulled out half a case of champagne which went down like water with our glass perron. A2 found out that despite a lot of practice, he still can't beat Skip in a shucking contest. And late, late into the night, we all came face to face with Don Merry's ferocious dexterity with a hose. Dave and I left the scene soaking wet and laughing our heads off around 11:30.
This week, Dave and I are spending some time in Knoxville with my Murray side of the family (the 15-hour drive went well - our usually carsick dog, Rex, managed to pitch a no-hitter). While we won't be eating any oysters (my expecting sis-in-law Allison wouldn't be allowed to eat them anyway - yay!) we've got plenty of snowy Duxbury memories to get us through the week. Plus, I know somewhere in Charlotte, our friends the Williams are shucking and slurping a few dozen Island Creeks on our behalf. (Thanks, Jim!) Also looking forward to a visit from my sis Shannon and her husband, Brian, so we can toast the upcoming arrival of their new, adopted daughter Gracyn. Yes, 2010 is looking to be a very baby-filled year.
Speaking of babies, the Wall Street Journal did a nice job capturing the story of Island Creek in its infancy in this blog post (unfortunately, they misspelled Skip's name... but the rest of it is accurate and fun to read).
Finally, a quick note of thanks for keeping up with Shucked. Through the ups and downs, the seed, the harvest, and the cold days of winter, it's been an absolute joy to chronicle, especially knowing you're out there going through it all with me. Here's hoping your holidays are filled with family, love, and plenty of Island Creek oysters.


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Once in a while a kitchen experiment comes out so scrumptious it makes all of the flops worth it. And when the experiment turns out to be healthy too, seriously... you just have to blog about it.
Y'all have got to try this! It's even kid and husband approved. Except that one kid. But I have enough kids, we're still at pretty good odds here! ;) And plus, that one kid was determined to be grumpy today anyways. Ha! Here you are: super normal ingredients and easy to make. Perfect for these chilly fall evenings.
Sweet Italian Vegetable Soup
1 lb ground pork
1 clove garlic; minced
1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
1 Tbsp Italian seasoning
4 cups water OR chicken broth
2 sweet potatoes; peeled and diced
3 large carrots; diced
1 parsnip; diced (optional)
1 parsnip; diced (optional)
1 zucchini; diced
1 summer squash; diced
1 handful of baby spinach; torn small
Salt and pepper
Directions: In a large pot, brown ground pork with garlic and salt n pepper (to taste) over medium heat. Once pork is thoroughly cooked, add tomatoes, Italian seasoning, water, sweet potatoes, carrots, and parsnip. Let boil until carrots and parsnips are softened (about 15 min). Add zucchini and summer squash. Reduce heat a tiny bit and let simmer about 20 min(or more). Add spinach and let simmer for 5 minutes. Serve. So. good. Enjoy!
Did you busy mamas notice you only will have to scrub one pot when you are done?! Aw yeah. I think I'll make soup every night!
Thank you for stopping by this little corner of the interwebs!
P.S. For you health nuts like me... this is a Whole30 compliant and Paleo dinner! Yessssss.


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A number of cases in the UK recently are certainly saying YES, it is Self Defence.
There seems to be a big trend in the UK this year for both law makers and politicians (including the PM, David Cameron), for wanting to clarify the law to state that stabbing a home intruder to death should never be punished. It should only ever be determined as acting in self defence.
"put beyond doubt that homeowners and small shopkeepers who use reasonable force to defend themselves or their properties will not be prosecuted"
- David Cameron, British Prime Minister
Below we will be having a look at three cases where all of the people featured were found to have acted in self defence where no charges were laid. The defenders were deemed to have used reasonable force. All of the intruders were killed by stabbing wounds from a knife.
One other case will highlight what was NOT considered reasonable force and this person was sent to prison. This was a controversial case at the time.
Let's get into it.
Vincent Cooke
During the home invasion, the home owner, Cooke, had been taken upstairs at knifepoint by the intruder, Raymond Jacob. Whilst being taken upstairs by Jacob, there was a struggle and Cooke stabbed the intruder.
"At the time he was in fear for his own safety and the safety of his wife and son, who arrived at the house as the incident was happening."
- The Prosecutor
The courts decided that Vincent Cooke had acted in self defence and had used reasonable force.
In this case, I doubt anyone would disagree. When criminals start moving people around, they normally mean no good. And if anyone is ever in that situation, where your wife and son arrive as this is all happening... well... In that situation, it is reasonable to assume that something very bad was going to happen either to you, and/or your loved ones.
The other key here is that the intruder was using a weapon, a knife.
This case is a clear example of reasonable force. Killing in this instance was deemed Self Defence.
Source: BBC
Peter Flanagan
Peter Flanaghan, his 27yr old son and his son's girlfriend were woken during the night, just before midnight by sounds downstairs. Flanaghan investigated the disturbance and was confronted by four intruders, one of whom was armed with a machete. When Flanaghan confronted the men, a scuffle broke out between him and one of the intruders and Flanaghan stabbed the man in the chest.
Shortly afterwards, three of the other intruders were seen carrying the body of the stabbed intruder down the street. When they heard sirens approaching, they abandoned their accomplices body on the street and fled. They were soon caught.
"People are entitled to use reasonable force in self-defence to defend themselves, their family and their property. All the evidence indicates that in the frightening circumstances that he faced, Mr Flanagan did what he honestly and instinctively believed was necessary to protect himself and his home from intruders."
- Chief Crown Prosecutor
You've got your son and his girlfriend upstairs as you go down to investigate the sound. When you see the four men, one armed with a machete, what goes through your mind?
What would go through any normal persons mind? That is the key. If the answer to that question is similar to what happens, what happens would be seen to be reasonable at the time and the claim of self defence will probably be established.
Key factors in this case were that there were multiple attackers and they were armed, one with a machete.
Source: The Independent
Cecil Coley
Cecil Coley, 72yrs old, was playing cards in his flower shop with a 60yr old friend of his.
Four men armed with guns and knives stormed into the shop. During the ensuing struggle, Mr Coley received a number of injuries, including a serious facial injury, and his friend was knocked unconscious. At some point in the incident, one of the guns, a blank firing pistol, was fired.
"all the evidence indicated that when Coley took a knife that was on the shop counter and struck out with it, he was acting in a way that he felt instinctively necessary to protect himself while fearing for his life."
- The Prosecutor
Coley killed one of the intruders by stabbing. Coley was deemed to have acted in self defence.
It must have been terrifying for him. Four men armed with knives and guns. Coley was 72. Coley was outnumbered, outarmed and much older. These are all factors that contribute towards a favourable self defence decision in court. Coley had them all on his side.
Source: The Guardian
Brett Osbourn
Note: This case is longer than the others as the circumstances need to be explained.
Brett Osbourn and four friends were watching television over a drink.
Wayne Halling had been smashing the windows of other houses in the street with his fists and head, giving himself more than 90 wounds. His wrist was cut to the bone and he had sliced half through one of his toes. He was covered in blood.
By the time Halling arrived at the home where Osborn was sitting with his friends, he was, as every witness who was interviewed stated, a "terrifying sight".
Halling got in the house because one of Osborn's companions, Kelly Hinds, had heard the commotion and gone outside. The drug-crazed Halling took her for "Emma", the girlfriend who, he screamed, had "set him up". Miss Hinds recalled that he "grabbed me and pushed me against a parked car. I immediately got blood from him on my top. I managed to push him away".
Halling pursued her back to the house. Miss Hinds managed to get inside but, even with the help of her pregnant sister, Jodie, was unable to close the door against his weight or stop him from pushing his way in. He staggered along the corridor, smearing the walls with blood.
Jodie Hinds screamed "He's in the house! He's in the house!" and Jay Westbrook, her boyfriend, struggled with him, knocking him down. But he got up again and kept going.
Osborn recalls:
"There is blood everywhere, things are flying everywhere, the girls are screaming hysterically. I just don't know what to do. Then he starts coming towards me." In fear and confusion, Osborn picked up a steak knife with a 6in serrated blade that he says was on the floor. He would later tell the police: "I didn't know what he was going to do to me." Also, knowing that Jodie Hinds was pregnant, he was terrified of what might happen if she were attacked. "He came towards me, sort of grabbed me," says Osborn, "and I lunged, and stabbed him that was the only thing I could think to do. It was just the panic. He's mad, he's crazy, he's just smashed up three houses, attacked people, beaten up my friend. I didn't know what was going to happen. There's blood all over him. The only thing I could think of was to protect myself and the other people in the house."
Halling fell to the floor. Police and an ambulance then arrived: there had been several calls to the emergency services, but because of fights in Romford as the pubs closed, officers had been slow to get to the scene.
"The law does not require the intention to kill for a prosecution for murder to succeed. All that is required is an intention to cause serious bodily harm. That intention can be fleeting and momentary. But if it is there in any form at all for just a second - that is, if the blow you struck was deliberate rather than accidental - you can be guilty of murder and spend the rest of your life in prison. Moreover, while self-defence is a complete defence to a charge of murder, the Court of Appeal has ruled that if the force you use is not judged to have been reasonable - if a jury, that is, decides it was disproportionate - then you are guilty of murder. A conviction for murder automatically triggers the mandatory life sentence. There are no exceptions."
- The Barrister
The legal situation was explained to Osborn by his defence team. Mr Bott and Mr Potter advised him that although they thought it very unlikely that any jury would reject his plea that he had stabbed Halling in self-defence, they could not, in all honesty, claim that it was a certainty. There was a small chance that a jury might decide that his use of the knife was "disproportionate". The jurors would then be bound, under the law, to convict him of murder.
Osborn pleaded guilty to manslaughter as a result of provocation. He was sentenced to five years in prison, of which three years was expected to be the maximum sentence.
This was (and remains), a controversial case. Many people felt that under those circumstances, Osborn had acted reasonably. He was with friends, including two females (one of which was pregnant and one was assaulted by Halling), he was clearly unstable, was covered in blood and had forced his way into their house.
The main difference in THIS case was that Halling was unarmed. There was only one of him. Osborn had used a knife. These are the facts that make a ruling of self defence difficult. Was using a knife and stabbing Halling five times using reasonable force? It's all too easy to look back in hindsight, a calm mind and some clarity of the situation.
Did Osborn need to wait until Halling had picked up a knife first? Would it be reasonable to feel that Halling would launch into a lethal attack at any moment? In the situation Osborn found himself in, I would assume that Halling was an immediate threat.
At any time, he could arm himself and attack. After all, where did all that blood come from? Did he just kill someone down the street?
You COULD go for the self defence plea but again, who knows what a jury would think of using a knife against an unarmed aggressor. It's risky either way.
Because this case could have gone either way, I though it important to highlight that sometimes people in genuine self defence situations go to prison due to split second decisions.
Source: The Telegraph
Let's not forget for one moment in our calm look at the facts with the benefit of hindsight, each of these cases would have been quite sudden and quite scary. They were all desperate situations where those involved would have been shocked by the element of surprise and that shock would have endured throughout.
All genuine self defence situations are scary. Someone is trying to kill you! (I hope your training scares you from time to time as well, it should).
In this state, humans cannot make clear and logical decisions. How we react, besides acting on instinct for the untrained, will largely be a result of our own training, beliefs and make up.
What are your thoughts on using lethal force to defend yourself or your loved ones?
What are your thoughts on using lethal force to defend your property?
Are they different?
Have you got weapons handy in case someone does break into your home? Will that make any attack you use with that weapon pre meditated in the eyes of a jury? That is something you need to consider. Is there a way you can store it in a place that is more natural for you to instinctively go for it? Instead of having a knife under the bed, could you store it with some diving or fishing gear in a cupboard nearby? Things like this need to be considered. You do not want to set yourself up for a prison sentence before an intruder has even forced his way inside your home.
What about after the fact?
Those three men that were deemed to have used reasonable force in a self defence situation still have to live with them killing someone for the rest of their lives. Have you considered that? Are you inhumane? Will you take pleasure in killing? Do you look forward to it? Will you regret it every day for the rest of life?
Or do you accept that in such a situation, they have forced you to respond in a way to defend yourself. They have caused it, not you. You need to come to terms with how you will mentally view such a situation. Not just pre (as in trying to build confidence to act, though that is important), but post. How will you feel about your actions after the fact?
Does it really matter what your thoughts on it are if you spend the next ten years in prison?
Such considerations are just further reasons why we need to train in systems and methods that only use reasonable force, all of the time, such as ISR Matrix. If you are training in some ancient way where you do a sweep and then do a 'finishing' move once you have the attacker is down, you are training in an old obsolete system for the realities of todays day and age.
If you train knife defence where you do a disarm and then cut the attackers throat with their own knife, you are training in an obsolete system for todays day and age.
Spend some time thinking about what you consider reasonable actions are in the event someone (or group of people), breaks into your home. Think of numerous situations. What will you do? Maybe it will help if you spend a few moments writing down all of the realistic possibilities for your area. Then consider your appropriate options for each.
Can you fall back into one room that can be securely locked, like a safe room whilst you call the police?
What are the laws in your area?
Do you ALWAYS have all doors and windows locked? Even during the day? Do you always open the front door when someone knocks?
Food for thought.
What are your opinions of self defence in the home, or about the cases above? Do you know of other cases that are controversial?
Is killing ok?
Should we be able to use MORE force during a home invasion because it is in our home?
Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Opening Image via Chris Yarzab


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Ok, I'm done. I'm hereby declaring that there should be a moratorium on any more Short Circuit/Johnny 5 comparisons to Wall-E.
At the WonderCon panel, someone brought the question up to Andrew Stanton, who wrote the script for the new Pixar movie, won and Academy Award for his work on Finding Nemo, and has been involved with writing pretty much ever Pixar movie that's come out.
His demeanor indicated that he'd already heard the question ad nauseum, and here's what he had to say:
The inspiration for the character came from two places:
1. The original Pixar Luxo Lamp used in their logo.
No, Wall-E doesn't look anything like the lamp, what Stanton went on to say is that he wanted the character to be a machine first and a character second, much like the famous lamp. The lamp doesn't look even remotely human or animal yet its personality comes across brilliantly:
"I wanted to believe that a robot is really there. I wanted to believe he is really a robot and not just a human in a robot shell."
The initial design concept was that of a robot that was low to the ground so it would have a low center of gravity, a method of locomotion that could get it over any terrain or obstacle, and a way to compact trash efficiently, hence the cube shape.
2. A pair of binoculars at a baseball game.
Yes, folks: binoculars. He said he was at a stadium watching a game when he asked someone to pass their binoculars to him. He started playing with them and seeing how they could be used to express emotion.
He did go on to say that he'd only seen the movie Short Circuit once, and he supposes it could have influenced him on some subconscious level. Really, I thought that statement was just throwing a bone to those who claim he ripped off the design, which is a ludicrous idea IMHO.
The Johnny 5 robot is tall and slender with a thin body elevated high above the treads, with long arms coming off the "shoulders." While Wall-E is short and stubby, with a cube-shaped body which squats directly on the treads and short little arms that come off the body itself. Maybe while folks are at it they can accuse James Cameron of ripping off Short Circuit for the design of the HK Tank from Terminator 2 (shown here).
Anyway... that's enough of a rant. To end on a happy note, here's the latest poster for Wall-E. :-)
Wall-E opens on June 27, 2008.


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July 2, 2012
COLOGNE, Germany
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With frequency controlled compressors and gas cooler fans, all cabinets and cold storage rooms in the CO2OLtec refrigeration system are equipped with electronic expansion valves and electronically controlled (EC) fan motors. Freezer islands are covered with sliding lids and intelligent trim heater controls to further enhance energy efficiency. The key energy saving feature is the CO2OLheat heating system, providing 50kW for space heating and sanitary hot water heating.
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Ed Sheeran has addressed reports he is dating Ellie Goulding after they were spotted holding hands, seemingly confirming he enjoyed a short-lived romance with the singer.
The British stars sparked rumors of a relationship after they were photographed getting cozy together in the audience at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York City last month.
Goulding was quick to play down the reports, tweeting, "I love that holding hands with my friends means we're an item. In that case I am in many relationships. Lover not a hater. What the f—."
However, in an interview with Washington radio station Click 98.9, Sheeran suggests he was indeed romantically involved with Goulding.
When quizzed about Goulding, Sheeran explains, "Normal people don't hold hands if they're just friends. It was going on, and now it's not."
DJ Brad Nolan then pointed out that the VMAs were not long ago, to which Sheeran replied, "I know, I know… She's a really cool girl, she's very talented. She's had a number one single for three weeks in England now, so it's all going well. We just tour a lot."
The singer went on to insist he doesn't hold hands with other female friends, like his tour mate Taylor Swift: "I haven't even been pictured with that many women. I'm on tour with (Swift). There's never been a picture that's come out (with Swift) – if you can find a picture of me and Taylor holding hands or whatever… You won't be able to because it doesn't exist!"


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Ariel and I went to Slimbridge today on a whim and saw ducklings hatching!
We went into the duckling room first thing to admire the ducklings and there were two eggs in the hatchery (a little warm box where it is a little drier than the egg incubator, to help the ducklings dry out once hatched, where the eggs are moved once there are signs of life). They were apricot silver calling ducks, I think. They looked very much like the one pictured, although a bit less wet and straggly!
The two eggs were both intermittently rocking a little and one had a crack where the duckling had started chipping at the shell from the inside. Duckling Woman told us that it can take many hours, even a couple of days, for an egg to hatch and that they were in the early stages, but that if we checked back later we might see a little hole in the egg rather than just a slight crack. Apparently it takes a lot of effort to break an egg with a miniscule little "egg tooth" (not a tooth, just a sort of bump really) so they often have a few little sleeps while in the process of hatching out.
When we went back an hour or so later there was a third egg which had been brought in and it already had a hole in it! We could see movement through the hole, the little beak chipping away, and feathers, and we could even see the movement of the ducking breathing. Apparently, the little air sac inside the egg gets bigger as the duckling uses up all the nutrients in the egg. When the littl'un is ready to hatch, it starts by breaking into the air sac at which point it begins to breathe! From that moment, even before it is hatched, the duckling begins to cheep. We couldn't hear any cheeping as the 5-day-old Laysan Teal ducklings (rarest duck on earth) on the other side of the room were very noisy. But apparently they cheep to one another as they are all hatching together and this encourages them, hearing one another, and maybe it also lets mummy duck know what is going on. Anyway, it was really cool and we watched it for a while, the two original eggs had both progressed a little – the one that previously just had a little crack, had chipped almost all the way around while the other which was just rocking before had got some cracks.
A drink and a snack in the cafe later and we decided to go back and see the ducklings on our way out. All the eggs had progressed a little bit and the "middle egg" was catching up, with a visible hole although not such a big hole as the third egg. We went over to see the ducklings and just as we were looking at them and talking to Duckling Woman, someone cried out "oh look it's come out!" and we rushed over to see the duckling hatch. It was the middle egg which had obviously got a wiggle on and overtaken its more advanced clutch-mate. It had its head out but not its feet and we saw it wiggling around and coming out – very ungainly, but just amazing to watch.
There is a little yellow sac thing that comes with it – like a placenta?? – but otherwise the egg is empty. The duckling, once unfurled, was huge compared to the egg! We got to have a look at it later on and inside the egg you could see the blood veins which had nourished the littl'un before it hatched. Duckling Woman had told us to expect that the duckling would just collapse in a heap and snooze after the mammoth effort of hatching itself, but it seemed to have plenty of energy left – maybe because the "birth" was so unexpectedly quick and easy – and spent a while just crawling around and trying to get onto its feet, rolling its fellow-eggs around and trying to cosy up to its own broken egg (return to the womb??) It was fab!
After that Duck Man came in and had a look. The third duckling – the one everyone thought would hatch first because it was ahead of the others – by now was trying desperately to push out of the egg even though it hadn't chipped all the way around the edge yet. It was just pushing and pushing. I think (in my anthropomorphic way) that it was annoyed at having been overtaken, and encouraged by the now much louder cheeps of its clutch-mate, and possibly annoyed at the fact that the duckling was rolling the egg around as it tried to get on its feet – no wonder it wanted to get out fast!
Anyway Duck Man came in and decided to "help" by breaking the shell open a little (impatient obstetrician! episiotomy now!) I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing for the chick, and it didn't feel right, to my wholly inexpert eyes, for him to interfere – however it had the unexpected advantage for we onlookers that we got to see the second duckling hatch as well. It came out within less than a minute of being "helped" and it too was completely amazing. It came out in one go, not head first and legs after like the first one – or legs first and head later like the cartoons…
Oh it was amazing! (Amazing!) I've gone on and on about this – I felt while watching it, so privileged and awed.
I kept relating it back to what I know about childbirth in terms of the length of the labour, the experience of the hatching bird / birthing child, the need for time and rest, and this probably coloured my reaction to Duck Man's intervention. It was a thoroughly absorbing natural process and it was tainted somewhat by the intervention. But still.
What a surpisingly and wonderfully powerful experience: I was walking on air for a long time afterwards – it was a little moment of Joy.


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CareerLingual is a new job site targeting multilingual professionals in the UK and Europe set for release later this year. We are looking for a high quality professional logo that is simple, positive, clean and original. Please read the full brief for the best chance of winning.
CareerLingualis a job site for multilingual job seekers looking for work in the UK or acrossEurope and employers looking for skilled professionals with the ability tospeak more than one language.
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We want thedesign to have a modern progressive feel as the site embraces cutting edgetechnology and state of the art web design principles, it is very much user andcommunication focused.
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Intel CTO demos building blocks of shapeshifting robots
When the end comes, it'll be wearing a bunny suit
IDF Intel sent sane journalists screaming for the exits this morning when it unveiled a nightmarish future vision where robots are more intelligent than humans, computers can change shape, electronic devices are recharged remotely, and humans are probably going to be ruled by an x86-based server farm.
Wrapping up the Intel Developer Forum with a session on R&D, CTO Justin Rattner declared that the singularity – the point at which machines become more intelligent than humans – is now as little as 50 years away.
For some reason, the MSc and PhD-heavy attendees did not see this as a horrifying prospect and run for the hills, but instead sat there dumbly while the vendor recounted the ways it is underpinning the necessary research to ensure machines can outwit humans.
The presentation started sensibly enough, with an update on new materials to take microprocessors beyond CMOS and 32nm, and subsequently further jack up computer power. These inevitably include carbon nanotubes and other carbon-based materials and emerging materials program manager Mike Garner raised the prospect of new materials which use spin, magnetics and optics to encode data, instead of charge, and which are able to offer more than one state.
The vendor also wheeled out its usual update on silicon photonics, with a researcher demonstrating a laser based system where data was being modulated at 2.2Gbps. He said by tuning lasers at different wavelengths and integrating them together a 1Tbps link could be possible.
Another IDF favourite, software configurable radios was also highlighted, with a call for wireless networks to be rethought from the ground up, so that devices could sniff out the most effective spectrum, rather than being restricted to a single chunk by the FCC and other regulators.
Then it started getting weird, before getting just plain scary.
Intel researchers demonstrated a Wireless Resonant Energy Link. Think of two antennas, one hooked to a a power source, the other hooked to a nothing else but a lightbulb. By using resonant coupling, power was transmitted from the power source to the light bulb, to the tune of 60W at 75 per cent efficiency. Or put simply, the lightbulb lit up, purely on wirelessly transmitted power.
Rattner said the firm envisioned receiving resonators being built into laptops and mobile phones, so that they could be recharged quickly simply by being placed next to a power transmitter. He added that the technology was – probably – perfectly safe, as it relied on resonant coupling, not anything nasty like inductive coupling.
He then wheeled out pair of robots, to demonstrate Intel-backed academics' efforts. One robot was trained to pick out mugs amongst clutter, and grasp them in a safe manner. Another used "electric field pre-touch" rather than a camera to suss out the world and grasp objects This is a technique used by animals like sharks, and sure enough the predatory robot quickly made a grab for the Intel VP, shouting, "found it, got it, found it got it."
Non-touch manipulation was the party trick for San Francisco-based neural interface firm Emotiv, which demonstrated a headset which detects users' brain waves at the skull surface to manipulate objects in a computer game. This should be on the market for Christmas the firm said. While the headset would indeed add new element to Star Wars games, the truly paranoid will be asking how long it will be before the machines start sending information back the other way.
And if Rattner's last party piece was anything to go by, we won't even see the machines coming.
Rattner treated the still unscared audience to a demo of Intel's progress in programmable matter, or the use of millions of tiny micro-robots – dubbed Catoms – to build objects that can change shape. That's right, shape shifting robots – we've seen those in movies.
Intel-backed researchers have built chunky prototypes, packing a microprocessor and memory, which are encased in multiple electromagnets which can then "roll around one another's perimeter. It has gotten prototype cylinders down to 2mm, at which point electromagnets are too clunky, and electrical fields are used to manipulate the catoms.
The next step is 3D spherical catoms, at 0.1mm, and researchers showed Intel wafers with tiny silicon hemispheres, which could eventually provide the basis for fully-fledged catoms.
Catoms raised the possibility of 3D visualisation, for example in medicine or product development, Ratter said, or on the every day level devices that could morph from being a tablet computer to a pocket device.
Or, of course, a killer robot, controlled by a distributed neural network which is powered by electricity given off by its farm of human power drones. We'll know we're in trouble when the machines decide to rip off their Intel Inside stickers.®
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