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1. Reserve books should be checked out even if being used during class time.
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This guide is organized to help you in the research process, which usually proceeds from general sources to more specific ones.
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And it's been a lot of fun.
But there has been one minor glitch. My son hasn't been able to eat any of the cakes I've been making. You see, he has food allergies. Dairy and eggs are included in those allergies. Which completely rules out most traditional cakes and all of the meringue buttercreams I have been making.
I make plenty of things that he can eat, but I have been promising him that I will try to make him a fancy cake, like those he's been watching me make, that is completely safe for him.
Today was the day I decided to go for it.
But apparently the vegan-baking-deities were not on my side.
I started by making my cake layers. I prepared my pans as usual, except that I was trying to save a few minutes, so I skipped using parchment rounds in the bottom of my pans. I sprayed them well and figured I'd be okay.
Mistake #1.
Umm... yeah, the entire bottom of the cakes stuck to the pans.
No problem... I'll try to piece it back together.
Umm... nope. Never mind. Didn't even try that with the second layer. Hmm...
The next step was the vegan meringue buttercream.
Now, meringue buttercream has two main ingredients. Egg whites and butter. Both out when going vegan. Instead of egg whites, vegan meringue uses aquafaba - the liquid most people dump out from cans of beans (garbanzo, in my case). It takes some time, but it whips up to a light and airy meringue and can be used as an egg replacement in many recipes. As for the butter, there are plenty of non-dairy butter alternatives. All of the recipes for vegan buttercream that I read recommended either 100% palm-oil shortening or Earth Balance sticks (rather than spread). I couldn't find the shortening in my grocery store, but did find the Earth Balance, so that was what I went with.
To make Italian meringue buttercream, the egg whites (or aquafaba) is whipped to stiff peaks while a sugar and water syrup is cooked to a specific temperature in a pot.
Here is where fail #2 came into play.
Apparently my candy thermometer is broken. And I didn't know it. So while I was waiting for the thermometer to let me know that my sugar syrup had reached 240 degrees, turns out my sugar had way surpassed the soft ball stage that that temperature indicates and... well... yeah. I didn't take pictures of that part. But I had to scrap that sugar, scrub my pot and try again, this time making an educated guess as to the temperature of my syrup, knowing that my thermometer would not be a help.
The second attempt at the meringue seemed to work, so I whipped it all up, added in my "butter" and... had frosting!
Now white-on-white cakes don't necessarily look all that dynamic in photos...
But it came together alright, despite the issues I'd been having...
I mean... it looks like a cake, right?
All unassuming and cake-y?
You can kind of see the uneven layers and what not, but... it's a cake!
And then it was time for dessert.
Both kids started off excited. Both said it was pretty good.
Then, after a few more bites... they both opted to skip dessert.
That's right, my children chose no dessert over this cake.
That is not exactly a promising sign.
I finished both of their pieces. Because... it's still cake. The cake itself was okay - plain, not a lot of flavor, uneven texture... and the buttercream, while smooth and silky like "regular" Italian meringue buttercream, tasted a bit salty and a bit... well, like the Earth Balance spread. The cake and the frosting together taste better than either one component on its own, but even still, it wasn't a hit here.
So today's adventure didn't work out like I'd hoped.
I'll keep trying.
And for my vegan baking needs, I'll stick to this chocolate cake that my family loves. At least until I can find a better layering-cake recipe. I'll also have to play with alternative butter substitutes if I want to try the vegan meringue buttercream again...
Live and learn.


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Death of His Excellency Lieutenant- Governor Pitt.It is our melancholy duty to record the death of His Excellency Major -General George Dean Pitt, K. H., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, which took place at his residence in Princes-street at three o'clock on Wednesday morning last. For about two years past his health had been so broken down that the continuance of his life for any lengthened period could not reasonably have been anticipated; and when the final hour arrived, he expired without a struggle —having attained the period said to be allotted to human existence — " three-score years and ten " — and having had his declining days cheered by a solace especially sweet in a land so far away from that of his birth, the presence and anxious care of a numerous and affectionate-family circle.On the afternoon of Wednesday, a Government Gazette Extraordinary was issued, announcing the lamented event, and stating that in consequence of it, no business would be transacted at the Public Offices, and they would remain closed until the remains of His Excellency should have been interred. The spirit of the direction thus given with regard to the Public Offices, was spontaneously acted on —or rather anticipated — throughout the town, on most of the shop windows in which shutters were immediately put up. The colours of the ships in the port were also exhibited half-mast high, as was, of course, the Union Jack at Fort Britomart. The Funeral was fixed to take place at three o'clock on Thursday, according to a programme which also was published in the Gazette Extraordinary. About that hour, amidst the firing of minute guns from Fort Britomart, the procession moved forward in the following order :
The number of attendants at the Funeral included in the last-named class, was very large indeed, extending for a long line of road; while crowds of spectators were gathered at those localities from which a view of the procession could best be obtained, so that it might seem as if Auckland had sent out almost its whole population to manifest, in one way or another, an interest in the melancholy occasion. At the entrance of the Burying Ground, the Body was met by the Rev J F Churton, Colonial Chaplain and Chaplain to the Troops, by whom the sublime Funeral Service of the Church of England was read.The remains were deposited in a grave near that of Governor Hobson, in a plain black coffin, having no ornament beyond the simple plate on which was inscribed :Major-GeneralGeorge Dean Pitt, K. H.Died January 8th, 1851.Aged 70.
While the grave was being filled in, thirteen minute guns were fired from field-pieces brought up for the purpose. The 58th Regiment then fired three volleys, and the final military honours to the deceased having thus been completed, the proceedings terminated.The first commission in the army borne by the deceased gallant Officer was dated June 4, 1805; he became Lieutenant on the 5th of December in the same year, — Captain on the 10th of August 1809, and Major on the 13th of January 1814. On the 18th of April, 1822, he was appointed to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 80th Regiment. His subsequent steps of promotion were a Colonelcy on the 10th of January 1837, and the rank of Major-General on the 9th of November 1846.The deceased had seen much service, having been engaged at the capture of the Danish West India Islands in 1807, and of Martinique in 1809. He served also in the Peninsula from 1811 to 1814, and was engaged in the most memorable operations of those eventful years, including the battles of Albuhera, Vittoria, Pampeluna, and the Pyrenees, and also the siege of Badajoz. He was subsequently employed as one of the Inspecting Field Officers in Great Britain, and then appointed to the command in New Zealand.His entrance on the Lieutenant-Governorship of this Province took place on the 14th February, 1848, the Governor-in-Chief having appointed him to that office pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Charter of 1846. During the periods in which the Governor-in-Chief being absent, he wielded this authority, scarcely anything was called for beyond routine official acts, and few, if any, political associations are connected with his memory.
And here is what is left of William Augustus Dean Pitt's headstone. I've let David Verran of Auckland Central Library know (David does great tours of the cemetery during our Heritage Festival each year), and hopefully whoever handles things at the cemtery maintenance-wise will be able to rectify things for the younger Pitt.
Update 28 November 2011:
I received an email today from Garth Cockerill, a descendant of George Dean Pitt's sister. He's looking for further information on the family, and I have his permission to publish his email to me.
"I read with interest your article concerning George Dean Pitt. Have you any information on his parents?
"As I understand it - he was one of two children born to Miss Patience Dean, fathered by George Pitt, the Second Baron Rivers, in Swallowfield, Hampshire, ENG. The Baron Rivers never married.
"The children were Susannah Rivers, and George Dean. This has never been proven, though many attempts have been made to verify the relationship between Miss Dean and George Pitt - the upper classes were very adept at 'cleansing' records.
"It is interesting that both children came out to the Antipodes - Susannah married a John Vincent in England, and they came out to Australia in 1823, where they raised their family. And, of course, George came to NZ in a military situation.
"If you have any further information I would be very interested to hear from you. I am descended from Susannah, albeit a few generations ago.
"Your article on the burial of George Dean Pitt was most fascinating, and the photos add to the story. Thank you.
"Regards, Garth Cockerill, Napier, NZ."


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Customers of TSB are reportedly still experiencing difficulties with internet and mobile banking services nearly 2 weeks after problems first began.
What Happened?
TSB, which was acquired by Spanish bank Sabadell in 2015, tried to fully migrate its computer systems from its old Lloyds Bank systems to its new core banking system, known as Proteo4UK. Proteo4UK is basically a version of Sabadell's in-house core banking platform Proteo which has been designed for TSB.
The system had already been rolled out to staff in November 2017, and the full rollout to customers was also supposed to have happened in November but was put back until April to avoid potential confusion of the expected interest rate rise.
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The expected benefits behind TSB's decision to migrate were cost savings through not having to pay £160 million per year to Lloyds Bank for hosting, and the opportunity to be able to implement its own customer-facing systems offering digital banking services.
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Executives from TSB and parent company Sabadell have been asked to appear before MPs to respond to questions and give evidence to the Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday 2nd May over the ongoing IT system outage.
What Does This Mean For Your Business?
It is well known that many banks run on old systems which have led to glitches in the past i.e. customers not being able to access their money, and have been the cause of worries about security. The case of TSB illustrates how the company had good commercial intentions as a challenger bank in migrating its systems to reduce costs and meet the modern customer's digital expectations, but ended up creating a PR disaster for itself. It is thought that the problems could cost the bank millions in lost customers, compensation, and damage to the brand.
Some commentators have criticised the bank for mismanaging the migration and for focusing too much on creating fancy apps rather than focusing on just getting the migration to happen as smoothly as possible.
It has also been suggested that, if joining or switching to a new bank, customers could do worse than to ask their proposed new bank what their plans are in terms of core banking platforms, whether they have any major IT projects planned, and how up to date is the core banking system is.
The problems with TSB's banking systems will undoubtedly have impacted many businesses as customers were unable to access funds or to spend as they normally would, or to pay existing agreements, and this all adds up to extra costs, reduced profits, and stress for business owners.
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The statistics listed below are presented without much commentary. They pretty much speak for themselves.
After reading this list, it will be hard for anyone to argue that we are on the right track.
The following are 55 interesting facts about the U.S. economy in 2012….
#1 As you read this, there are more than 6 million mortgages in the United States that are overdue.
#2 In January, U.S. home prices were the lowest that they have been in more than a decade.
#3 In Florida right now, some drivers are paying nearly 6 dollars for a gallon of gas.
#4 On average, you could buy about 10 gallons of gas for an hour of work back in the mid-90s. Today, the average hour of work will get you less than 6 gallons of gas.
#5 Sadly, 43 percent of all American families spend more than they earn each year.
#6 According to Gallup, the unemployment rate was at 8.3% in mid-January but rose to 9.0% in mid-February.
#7 The percentage of working age Americans that have jobs is not increasing. The employment to population ratio has stayed very steady (hovering between 58% and 59%) since the beginning of 2010.
#8 If you gathered together all of the workers that are "officially" unemployed in the United States into one nation, they would constitute the 68th largest country in the entire world.
#9 When Barack Obama first took office, the number of "long-term unemployed workers" in the United States was approximately 2.6 million. Today, that number is sitting at 5.6 million.
#10 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is hovering close to an all-time record high.
#11 According to Reuters, approximately 23.7 million American workers are either unemployed or underemployed right now.
#12 There are about 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment. That is an all-time record high.
#13 According to CareerBuilder, only 23 percent of American companies plan to hire more employees in 2012.
#14 Back in the year 2000, about 20 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs. Today, about 5 percent of all jobs in America are manufacturing jobs.
#15 The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
#16 Amazingly, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since 2001.
#17 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.
#18 During the Obama administration, worker health insurance costs have risen by 23 percent.
#19 An all-time record 49.9 million Americans do not have any health insurance at all at this point, and the percentage of Americans covered by employer-based health plans has fallen for 11 years in a row.
#20 According to the New York Times, approximately 100 million Americans are either living in poverty or in "the fretful zone just above it".
#21 In the United States today, corporate profits are at an all-time high. The percentage of Americans that are living in "extreme poverty" is also at an all-time high according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
#22 In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
#23 The poorest 50 percent of all Americans now collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.
#24 The number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent since 2007.
#25 According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1% of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6% of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.
#26 Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the number of Americans on food stamps has increased from 32 million to 46 million.
#27 As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married.
#28 In 1984, the median net worth of households led by someone 65 or older was 10 times larger than the median net worth of households led by someone 35 or younger. Today, the median net worth of households led by someone 65 or older is 47 times larger than the median net worth of households led by someone 35 or younger.
#29 If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero.
#30 After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.
#31 According to the Student Loan Debt Clock, total student loan debt in the United States will surpass the 1 trillion dollar mark at some point in 2012. If you went out right now and starting spending one dollar every single second, it would take you more than 31,000 years to spend one trillion dollars.
#32 Today, 46% of all Americans carry a credit card balance from month to month.
#33 Incredibly, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.
#34 The average interest rate on a credit card that is carrying a balance is now up to 13.10 percent.
#35 Of the U.S. households that do have credit card debt, the average amount of credit card debt is an astounding $15,799.
#36 Overall, Americans are carrying a grand total of $798 billion in credit card debt. If you were alive when Jesus was born and you spent a million dollars every single day since then, you still would not have spent $798 billion by now.
#37 It may be hard to believe, but the truth is that consumer debt in America has increased by a whopping 1700% since 1971.
#38 At this point, about 70 percent of all auto purchases in the United States involve an auto loan.
#39 In the United States today, 45 percent of all auto loans are made to subprime borrowers.
#40 Mortgage debt as a percentage of GDP has more than tripled since 1955.
#41 According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.
#42 To get the same purchasing power that you got out of $20.00 back in 1970 you would have to have more than $116 today.
#43 When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850. Today an ounce of gold costs more than $1700 an ounce.
#44 The number of Americans that are not paying federal incomes taxes is at an all-time high.
#45 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.
#46 The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.
#47 During 2012, the U.S. government must roll over nearly 3 trillion dollars of old debt.
#48 The U.S. debt to GDP ratio has now reached 101 percent.
#49 At the moment, the U.S. national debt is sitting at a grand total of $15,419,800,222,325.15.
#50 The U.S. national debt is now more than 22 times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter became president.
#51 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.
#52 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to pay off the national debt.
#53 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.
#54 Right now, the U.S. national debt is increasing by about 150 million dollars every single hour.
#55 Spending by the federal government accounted for about 2 percent of GDP back in 1800. It accounted for 23.8 percent in 2011, and according to former U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker, it will account for 36.8 percent of GDP by 2040.
Bad news, eh?
But it isn't just our economy that is decaying.
We are witnessing a tremendous amount of social decay as well. As I wrote about the other day, America is rapidly decomposing right in front of our eyes.
When the water level of a river drops far enough, it will reveal rocks that have been hidden from view for a very long time. Well, a similar thing is happening in America right now. For decades, our debt-fueled prosperity has masked a lot of the social decay that has been going on.
But now that our prosperity is evaporating, a lot of frightening stuff is being revealed.
Unfortunately, another major financial crisis is rapidly approaching and economic conditions in the United States are going to get a lot worse.
So what is our country going to look like when that happens?
That is a very good question.


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Major "Registered Social Landlord" of Silwood Estate (SE16), London & Quadrant's 'Media Centre' have published a report on the re-launch of the Silwood Estate Under 5s playgroup, which omits many aspects of the story that we considered crucial to our report last week. L&Q's alternative report portrays the company as having played a large part in saving the playgroup, neglecting to mention the eight month battle Silwood residents faced to secure the £11,500 of funding they have finally received, which is a one-off grant not expected to be renewed next year. Nor do L&Q mention that many believe the funding, and far more money, belong rightfully to the community, who were promised the Lewington Centre to replace their previous community building as a condition of the estates redevelopment, which began in the early 2000s.
At a meeting between L&Q staff and community steering group members last week, L&Q's long-standing obligation to hand the building over to the community was reiterated by Southwark Councillor and leader of the Southwark Liberal Democrat group Anood Al-Samerai – who reminded those present that the centre should ultimately be run by a committee comprising predominantly local people working with a minority of L&Q representatives. Alarmingly, this was met with apparent confusion from L&Q staff, who, under their Section 106 obligations, are supposed to have been working towards this goal since the centre opened in 2009, if not before.
Among a slew of now-broken promises, Silwood residents were led to believe they would have at least priority access to the building, which in actuality was made unviable as a venue for many community events by apartments being built above the main hall. Large parts of the building are also regularly leased to a local college, making them unavailable to the community. As we reported, and L&Q failed to mention, money collected from the Lewington Centre flats each week was meant to be set aside for the community, to make up for the restrictions they impose on using the building. By the same logic, profit made on renting the space should be shared with the community, who are, after all, supposed to manage the building.
Instead of mentioning these things, L&Q appear to be trying to use the re-launch of the playgroup to promote themselves. They boast that, "Children and families in and around the Silwood Estate, Southwark, are celebrating the re-launch of their local playgroup thanks to the work of the Silwood Community Steering Group and an £11,500 grant from L&Q housing association." They go on to describe themselves in favourable terms, as, "One of the largest housing associations in the capital," owning "70,000 homes across London and the South East as well as being a leading residential developer of new and affordable homes." The PR department seem oblivious to the fact that, given London property prices, £11,500 for a company that owns 70,000 houses doesn't come across as an especially generous sum.
Karen Westbrook, Resident Services Manager for L&Q, concludes the 'Media Centre' article, saying, "Helping the Silwood Community Steering Group to re-launch a playgroup service was a great opportunity for us to step in and support the nearby community and L&Q residents of the Silwood estate." This is an interesting take on what many would consider to be a story of community disempowerment, in which a resource has been effectively taken away from residents and then reluctantly lent back to them by L&Q after a long campaign and apparently in exchange for undeserved good PR.
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My name is Rachel and welcome to my blog. I am a mother of four, a nurse and a lover of all things paper. I also have a passion for photography as I believe the photo is everything on a layout! Thank you for taking time to look at my work and I hope it inspires you to create beautiful memories. Previous Design Team Positions: Just Scrapbooking 2013
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Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos has designed the Sorri lounge chair for WEWOOD. "Sorri" is a friendly chair, ingenious, wide and inviting.
Easily recognised by those great gentle surfaces, an important feature that provides all of the comfort, with a wide area to drop belongings like a bag, a coat or a book.
Many design details were considered in this chair to stress its solid construction and its main curve, remineschent of an inviting and assuring smile.
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Feed a Hungry Kid In San Diego. Now!
As challenging as the past year has been, one thing this food writer never ever worried about was going hungry. And it was far from an issue when I was growing up. If anything, my plate was always full and the parental directive was always to clean it. As in, "Finish it now. There are children starving in China."
While we never heard much about child hunger in America, sadly, it's always been with us. But now child hunger -- or, as it's euphemistically called, "food insecurity" -- is in the suburbs as well as the inner city and rural towns. And, none of it is acceptable.
The San Diego Food Bank launched its Food 4 Kids Backpack program in 2007 to provide food for chronically hungry elementary school students through the weekend. Every Friday, participating children receive a backpack filled with child-friendly foodstuff, such as peanut butter, pop-top canned goods, cereal, juice boxes, raisins, fruit cups, granola bars, shelf-stable milk, and macaroni and cheese.
They need this weekend bag because while they receive free or reduced cost meals in school, food may not be available to them on weekends or school holidays. Can you imagine having nothing to eat for two days?
To qualify, students must attend a school where at least 80 percent of the population receives free or reduced cost lunches, and receive a teacher referral. During the 2008-2009 school year, the program served just 200 children in eight schools throughout San Diego County. The need is so much greater now.
And, it's harder for the Food Bank and other organizations to help. As the economy has sagged, charitable donations have gone down while hunger has increased.
Those of us who love food and find pleasure in it are in a position to help keep kids from going hungry. Our local food bloggers and other members of the community are coming together for the next few weeks to raise funds for the San Diego Food Bank's Food 4 Kids Backpack Program. Starting now.
It doesn't take much. The program costs approximately $7 a week per child to fund. A donation of $250 will fund a full backpack for a child for the entire 36-week school year. Giving what you can afford will help ensure this program continues to keep young bellies full.
Need some incentive? We'll be hosting prizes to be awarded in a drawing at our live food and backpack drive at our San Diego Food Bank booth at the Little Italy Mercato on Saturday, Dec. 12. To see a full list of the prizes (and I'm seeing some fabulous contributions), visit the aliceqfoodie blog.
My contribution will be three cookbooks: Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg, M.D. and Zoe Francois, The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond, and Ralph Brennan's New Orleans Seafood Cookbook. I also will be giving away a $25 gift card to the Ivy's Ultra Lounge and Wine Bar and a market tour with me at either Balboa International Market or 99 Ranch Market. The winner's choice.
So, here's what we need you to do:
- Donate and/or enlist friends and family to donate a plain medium-sized backpack (no logos, please; keep it simple and gender neutral; FYI, the kids like red). If you'd like to fill it, consider school supplies (pencils, paper, pencil sharpeners, markers, crayons), nutritious kid-friendly foods (fruit roll ups, juice boxes, pop-top foods like applesauce or fruit, ready-made mac and cheese, granola bars, and boxed items), useful items like toothbrush and kid toothpaste, and coloring books.
- Donate online at our firstgiving.com website.
- Spread the word via email, Facebook, Twitter, your own blog -- whatever.
- Then bring all your backpacks to the Little Italy Mercato at Date and India Sts. on Dec. 12, along with any non-perishable food you'd like to donate to the Food Bank. If you cannot make the drop off that day, contact me and we'll figure out a way to get your contribution to the Food Bank.
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Detective Conan
Type: TV Series
Plot Summary:
Kudo Shinichi is a seventeen year-old high school detective whom people call the "Modern Sherlock Holmes." However, one night after a date with his childhood sweetheart, Ran, Shinichi witnessed an illegal trade and, caught off his guard, was knocked unconscious and fed a drug that was supposed to kill him... but he woke up and found himself shrunken to a seven year-old. In order to track down the men who did this to him, Shinichi hid his identity and lived with Ran, whose father happened to be a hopeless detective, and with that came a series of murders and mysteries that he must solve.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Police, Psychological, Shounen
Released: 1996
Status: Ongoing
Other name: Case Closed, Meitantei Conan, 名探偵コナン
Detective Conan
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(CNN) — Tired of hokey in-flight movies or spotty DirecTV connections? United Airlines is adding an option for watching TV during flights that lets passengers stream content directly to their laptop, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch for free.
The airline announced the new entertainment system in February and will roll it out on U.S. flights starting in April.
United will preload 150 movies and 200 TV shows onto an on-board system. Passengers with compatible devices will be able to stream directly from a server on the plane, so there's no need to pay for in-flight WIFi service, and the airline won't have to worry about an entire airplane of people gobbling up bandwidth while binge-watching.
United has chosen a combination of new and classic content, including popular TV shows "Downton Abbey" and Netflix's "House of Cards" to start. Eventually the aircraft will swap in fresh movies and episodes every month so frequent fliers don't run out of things to watch.
The program does have some limitations. The most notable is that it only works with Apple smartphones and tablets running iOS 6 and above for the time being. To watch shows on an iOS device, passengers must download the official United app. Android users are out in the cold unless they have a laptop handy, but United is working on adding support.
"We expect to offer the same service for users of Android mobile devices later this year," said a United spokesperson.
Passengers can watch the movies and shows only while in the air, but United plans on making it work from "gate-to-gate" to reflect recent changes in mobile device policies. Late last year, the FAA changed its policy to allow passengers to use mobile devices before and during takeoff and landing, at the discretion of the airlines.
On computers, the streaming works with Windows computers running Windows XP and Windows 7. It requires the most recent versions of the Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers. Mac laptops must have OS X 10.6 or higher and use Safari, Chrome or Firefox. The browsers must run Flash 10.3 or higher. For security reasons, some of the content can only be viewed with a specific browser plug-in, which can be downloaded in-flight.
The first planes to offer the feature will be the Airbus A319 and A320, the Boeing 747-400 and some Boeing 777-200s. To decide if you need to download all three seasons of "Veronica Mars" before getting on a cross-country United flight, check to see whether the new in-flight mobile streaming service is offered by looking at the list of amenities for your flight.
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Frede Mouritsen (Denmark) makes drawings, paintings, photos and drawings. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and violence, Mouritsen tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
His drawings sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By using an ever-growing archive of found documents to create autonomous artworks, he finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humour that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss.
His works establish a link between the landscape's reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a 'corporate world', he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His works are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in drawing. With the use of appropriated materials which are borrowed from a day-to-day context, he creates work through labour-intensive processes which can be seen explicitly as a personal exorcism ritual. They are inspired by a nineteenth-century tradition of works, in which an ideal of 'Fulfilled Absence' was seen as the pinnacle.
His works often refers to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. By investigating language on a meta-level, he uses a visual vocabulary that addresses many different social and political issues. The work incorporates time as well as space – a fictional and experiential universe that only emerges bit by bit.
His work urge us to renegotiate drawing as being part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society. With Plato's allegory of the cave in mind, he tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface.
His works bear strong political references. The possibility or the dream of the annulment of a (historically or socially) fixed identity is a constant focal point. In a search for new methods to 'read the city', he formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.
His works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own 'cannibal' and 'civilized' selves. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, he wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation.
His works question the conditions of appearance of an image in the context of contemporary visual culture in which images, representations and ideas normally function. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used.
His works are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
His works are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to great craftsmanship. By creating situations and breaking the passivity of the spectator, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His works are based on inspiring situations: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric, humoristic elements. With a subtle minimalistic approach, he tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.
His works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, he plays with the idea of the mortality of an artwork confronted with the power of a transitory appearance, which is, by being restricted in time, much more intense.
His works isolate the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.
His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, he tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.
His works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. With a conceptual approach, he often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His works are a drawn reflection upon the art of drawing itself: thoroughly self-referential, yet no less aesthetically pleasing, and therefore deeply inscribed in the history of modernism – made present most palpably in the artist's exploration of some of the most hallowed of modernist paradigms. By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, he presents everyday objects as well as references to texts, painting and architecture. Pompous writings and Utopian constructivist designs are juxtaposed with trivial objects. Categories are subtly reversed.
His works are often classified as part of the new romantic movement because of the desire for the local in the unfolding globalized world. However, this reference is not intentional, as this kind of art is part of the collective memory. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, he wants the viewer to become part of the art as a kind of added component. Art is entertainment: to be able to touch the work, as well as to interact with the work is important.
His practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of drawing: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, he tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
His works appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. Through a radically singular approach that is nevertheless inscribed in the contemporary debate, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, he makes work that generates diverse meanings. Associations and meanings collide. Space becomes time and language becomes image.
His works are an investigation of concepts such as authenticity and objectivity by using an encyclopaedic approach and quasi-scientific precision and by referencing documentaries, 'fact-fiction' and popular scientific equivalents. By questioning the concept of movement, he focuses on the idea of 'public space' and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.
His collected, altered and own works are being confronted as aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and projection. The possible seems true and the truth exists, but it has many faces, as Hanna Arendt cites from Franz Kafka. By choosing mainly formal solutions, he often creates several practically identical works, upon which thoughts that have apparently just been developed are manifested: notes are made and then crossed out again, 'mistakes' are repeated.
His works doesn't reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By emphasising aesthetics, he considers making art a craft which is executed using clear formal rules and which should always refer to social reality.
His works are on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand painfully attractive. Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, he tries to focus on the activity of presenting. The character, shape or content of the presented artwork is secondary. The essential things are the momentary and the intention of presenting.
His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, his works references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
His works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By focusing on techniques and materials, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and marketing.
His works feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise art history and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. By applying abstraction, he absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation.
His works focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualise reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in the work. By referencing romanticism, grand-guignolesque black humour and symbolism, he makes work that deals with the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. The work tries to express this with the help of physics and technology, but not by telling a story or creating a metaphor.
He creates situations in which everyday objects are altered or detached from their natural function. By applying specific combinations and certain manipulations, different functions and/or contexts are created. By replaying the work for each exhibition and pushing the evocative power of the work a little further, he uses references and ideas that are so integrated into the process of the composition of the work that they may escape those who do not take the time to explore how and why these images haunt you, like a good film, long after you've seen them.
His works are presented with the aim not to provide an idealistic view but to identify where light and the environment are important. The energy of a place and its emotional and spiritual vibrations are always important. By applying a wide variety of contemporary strategies, he reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for 'conclusive' stories and the question whether anecdotes 'fictionalise' history.
His works are made through strict rules which can be perceived as liberating constraints. Romantic values such as 'inspiration', 'genius' and 'authenticity' are thereby neutralised and put into perspective. Frede Mouritsen currently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Introduction – What is the Revenue Rule?
Q. Is it hard for countries to collect tax debts from residents of other counrries? A. I'ts the "Revenue Rule". In tax law, absent special enforcement treaties, sovereign countries do not enforce the revenue laws of other countries (the "revenue rule"). https://t.co/N4ZX4LJPSv pic.twitter.com/idRq77GvYv
— John Richardson – Counsellor for US persons abroad (@ExpatriationLaw) July 1, 2019
The "Revenue Rule" can be overridden by statute of by treaty. The United States is attempting to override the "Revenue Rule" through changes to tax treaties. Because the United States imposes worldwide taxation on the residents of other countries, the United States would be advantaged overriding the "Revenue Rule".
Putting the "Revenue Rule" in historical context. Does the Revenue Rule still matter?
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Hard to believe we are close to the end of 2013 already. So as usual I am posting my top 10 personal albums of the year almost passed. I hope you check out some of the stuff below if you missed it and share similar taste. I wouldn't say 2013 was a great year for new music, but there were some solid albums for sure. I feature a ton of new music every week in both radio shows. It is SO important to get the word out on this stuff since so little gets mainstream airplay and sales are so minimal these days. In a couple weeks I'll be doing my Year In Review special to end 2013 spotlighting my favorites and many more that were released in the past year all in one show. So here are my top 10 for 2013 and as usual hope I didn't forget anything!
1: The Winery Dogs
Easily my favorite of the year, and NOT because they are friends and I had something to do with their formation! Stands to reason as a fan of all three members I would like the album, but even I couldn't have anticipated an album of songs this strong when I suggested Richie Kotzen to Portnoy and Sheehan when their attempted band with John Sykes fell apart. I knew what Kotzen was capable of for sure as a massive fan of his solo work the last 10 years, but even I had no idea this could gel so well and so quickly. The playing is of course all top notch with three virtuosos in the band, but that can also turn an album into a wank off fest and lose songs. This album creates the perfect balance of amazing playing but never at the expense of great SONGS. Production top notch and mixed by brilliantly by Jay Ruston, one of my favorites in that end of the business. I have always known Kotzen was an amazing singer and player, many only knew his as a player. So it was great to see so many let in on the secret of his vocal ability through this album. Richie was the least known guy in this band but that all changed with this albums release and he became somewhat of a 25 year overnight sensation. Just had lunch with him last week and he told me how his solo albums have increased in sales which is great to hear as people finally find out more about this incredible all around talent. By no means do I want to overshadow the amazing contributions from Portnoy and Sheehan. This would not be the masterpiece it is without all three of these guys singing, playing and writing! It's just that Kotzen as singer, guitarist and writer was the wildcard in this whole thing and he delivered Ace's all the way in every way. Not a bad song on the album. I'd also suggest if you have the US version to seek out a bonus track from the Japanese edition called "Criminal". Great song and it was criminal it was left off the US version. Many skeptics wonder if this band has legs. All indications are they do, with more tour dates on sale now next year. After that it's anyone's guess and I hope for many more albums. But whatever happens in the future they made an amazing debut that was easily my favorite release of 2013. And that would still be the case if they weren't friends and if I had nothing to do with it!
2: Alter Bridge: Fortress
Band gets better and heavier with every album. Mark Tremonti's solo debut was one of my top 10 of 2012. This album has those same amazing riffs and playing coupled with equally amazing playing and singing by Myles Kennedy. The rhythm section of Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips driving everything perfectly. Great production as well from Elvis Baskette that is crushing but not at the expense of dynamics. An epic incredible 4th album from Alter Bridge who I can not wait to see live and let's hope America embraces them like Europe has already where they can headline arenas.
3: Black Star Riders: All Hell Breaks Loose
What was Thin Lizzy wisely changed their name to BSR when they decided to make new music. New music that channels the greatness of Lizzy with a fresh coat of paint. Ricky Warwick shows his love and influence of Lynott while still very much bringing his own approach to the band. Damon Johnson and classic era Lizzy member Scott Gorham deliver those classic dual solos all over the album. Reagrdless if you are a classic Lizzy fan or just a fan of great well played hard rock that channels all that was great about Thin Lizzy while still being fresh and new, this album was a very impressive debut for sure.
4: Buckcherry: Confessions
An ambitious concept album and one very personal to singer Josh Todd. Also turned out to be the best Buckcherry album since the comeback 15. If you missed this revisit, really impressive piece of work from a band more known for party hard rock anthems going a bit deeper.
5: Queensryche: Queensryche
The first "Tate-less" release from Ryche and they delivered a solid album that merges elements of their early days with Empire era period sounding stuff as well. To lose such a key member and voice like Tate and still make an album this strong is pretty amazing. By the way, I also thought Tate's Frequency Unknown was solid, but to me it was more of a Tate and friends record while this album retained more of a classic Queensryche band vibe featuring 3/5 of the original members.
5.5: Black Sabbath: 13
Their 3/4 reunion record was way better than anyone thought it would be. Led by the all time riff master Tony Iommi (NEVER ending supply of amazing riffs!). The founding fathers of metal able to come up with an album that channels their history but still sounds fresh and most important like Black Sabbath!
6: Scorpion Child
New band from Austin Texas that sounds like they could have come from the 70′s. Killer guitar riff based hard rock that at times reminds me of Fastway. "Liquor" my favorite track on it. Promising new band and hope to see them live.
7: Stryper: No More Hell To Pay
Michael Sweet wrote the bulk of the album and produced it as well. The best new music from this band in a while with great guitar sounds and those incredible lead and harmony vocals all over the place. Regardless of your religious beliefs, if you believe in well played hard rock with amazing vocals listen and enjoy.
8: Motorhead: Aftershock
With recent health scares surrounding Lemmy and various ailments catching up to the iconic front man you would expect maybe a tired sounding album after all these years? To the contrary it's the best album from the band in several years. Motorhead is always going to sound like Motorhead, but by their standards there is a bit more variety here which makes it stand out a bit more.
9: Michael Monroe: Horns & Halos
His album last year Sensory Overdrive was also a top 10 for me. This album isn't quite as good as that one but it's close. The former leader of Hanoi Rocks is on a roll. Only hope the American audience takes notice. "The Ballad Of The Lower E Side" my favorite track. Killer snotty hard rock!
10: Megadeth: Supercollider
Many thought this was Risk all over again when the title track was released as a single, but that wasn't a sign of the direction of the rest of the album (plus I like the song!). Lot's of classic Megadeth metal on this and a great cover of Thin Lizzy's Cold Sweat to end the album. Can't argue with that!
Other stuff to check out that I liked:
Anthrax: Anthems (covers EP otherwise would have been in the top 10 easily. But they always do great covers.
Skid Row: United World Rebellion (again only an EP, but direction wise back to where Skids should be.
Avenged Sevenfold: Hail To The King
More groove and song oriented than other stuff I heard from them.
Tom Keifer: The Way Life Goes
Lot's of directions but great to finally have new music from the leader of Cinderella.
Saxon: Sacrifice
One of British metal's best but still slightly under the radar bands.
Kill Devil Hill: Revolution Rise
Album 2 and a great continuation of what they started on debut.
Newsted: Heavy Metal Music
Great to have Jason back and a great live band too!
Hear all of the above and many more on my Year In Review radio special debuting on Q104.3 NYC 11P ET 12/27/13.


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The Civilian Response Corps has a website: http://www.civilianresponsecorps.gov/. From the about page:
The Civilian Response Corps is a group of civilian federal employees who are specially trained and equipped to deploy rapidly to provide reconstruction and stabilization assistance to countries in crisis or emerging from conflict. The Corps leverages the diverse talents, expertise, and technical skills of members from nine federal departments and agencies for conflict prevention and stabilization.
We are diplomats, development specialists, public health officials, law enforcement and corrections officers, engineers, economists, lawyers and others who help fragile states restore stability and rule of law and achieve economic recovery as quickly as possible.
Visit the site and check it out. See the below links for previous discussions on CRC and the State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction & Stabilization (S/CRS):
- Revisiting the Civilian Response Corps – 11 January 2011
- President's Civil Response Corps – 25 January 2007
- On CSIS's update on the Civilian Response Corps – 2 April 2007
- In-Sourcing Stabilization and Reconstruction – 3 January 2008
- Secretaries of State and Defense on S/CRS – 17 April 2008


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In the Wake of The Devil's Breath
[A sad and hellish account of the San Diego wildfires in October, 2007 that claimed the lives of several migrants who were trapped in the valleys while attempting to cross back and forth across the border. UCTV put together a powerful video that speaks not just to survivors and those who lost loved ones, but to some tragic humanitarian and bureaucratic failures that may have cost lives. More than anything, it's just another painful reminder of the kinds of stories that haunt the migrant through the vicious passage that is the borderland. Media coverage here: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 (Thanks Jav!)]


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Updated at 5:25 p.m. ET
Former President Donald Trump's legal team opened its impeachment defense Friday by characterizing the proceedings as an "unjust and blatantly unconstitutional act of political vengeance."
Attorney Michael van der Veen added it was an abuse of the Constitution that only serves to further divide the nation.
He then unveiled a peculiar defense strategy, arguing that objecting to the outcome of an election and attempting to block certification is a regular practice in American politics. And because of that, Trump's remarks on Jan. 6 before a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol should not be seen as incitement.
As part of his presentation, van der Veen played a roughly 75-second montage from Jan. 6, 2017 when several House members, including lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin, D-Md., stood up to disrupt Trump's electoral certification process.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden was presiding over the proceedings. House members rose one-by-one to object the elections results. They cited Russian interference, the legitimacy of the election and electors as well as voter suppression and voting machines.
"Please come to order," Biden said at the time. "The objection cannot be received."
In order for the objections to be considered, they needed to be in writing and signed by both House member and a senator, as NPR's Domenico Montanaro reported at the time. But no senator signed on to that effort.
Later, Raskin referred to the earlier video. He objected in 2017, he said, because the electors from Florida did not follow the letter of the law, saying that under the state's statute you could not be a state legislator and an elector. He said then Vice-President Biden "properly gaveled me down." Raskin noted that "nobody stormed the Capitol" during the 2017 certification.
In fact, the Democrats' objections back then to some electoral votes came nowhere near the legislative or political effort to overturn the election that Trump and his Republican allies staged around the 2020 presidential election.
Van der Veen also pointed to the outcome of the 2000 presidential election going all the way to the Supreme Court as further evidence that is not uncommon that presidential election results are contested.
That election landed in front of the Supreme Court because of a razor-thin margin in Florida.
"To litigate questions of election integrity within this system is not incitement," van der Veen said. "It is the democratic system working as the founders and lawmakers have designed."
He continued: "To claim that the president in any way wished, desired, or encouraged lawless or violent behavior is a preposterous and monstrous lie."
House impeachment managers concluded their opening arguments in the trial on Thursday. Trump faces a single impeachment charge of inciting the deadly insurrection on Jan. 6 that left five people dead.
The House Democrats argue that Trump knowingly and willing whipped up a frenzied pro-Trump crowd and urged them to lay siege to the seat of American government to block lawmakers from certifying Biden's electoral victory and keep Trump in power.
House impeachment managers argued that if senators don't convict Trump, he may incite further violence.
Senators, who are acting as jurors in Trump's historic second impeachment trial, are not expected to convict the former president.
For that to happen 17 Republicans would have to vote with all 50 Democrats to reach the two-thirds threshold to convict and effectively bar Trump from holding federal office in the future.
That outcome, however, seems unlikely.
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Yup, I occasionally like to jump on bandwagons. Especially when they're full of food and is being mentioned in a video presenting a cool local event in which I happen to take part. Alejna put the final nail in that coffin with her own use of that list.
From the Very Good Taste blog:
Very Good Taste » blog » The Omnivore's Hundred.
So, here goes. A list of food items used as a "meme."
The rules:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you've eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
1. Venison (I like game)
2. Nettle tea (also nettle wine)
3. Huevos rancheros (but I prefer migas)
4. Steak tartare (especially horse tartare)
5. Crocodile (not yet)
6. Black pudding (not that I really like it but I did have some)
7. Cheese fondue (several different types, including Fribourg's moitié-moitié, "tarragon fondue" served on potatoes, and the three cheese classic)
8. Carp (fished by hand)
9. Borscht (only once or twice in restaurants)
10. Baba ghanoush (pretty common)
11. Calamari (I prefer fried over stuffed)
12. Pho (in my list of comfort foods, with bánh mỳ)
13. PB&J sandwich (not that frequently)
14. Aloo gobi (had some this afternoon, as a matter of fact)
15. Hot dog from a street cart (although Montreal has rules against them)
16. Epoisses (not sure I did; does it taste a bit like cancoillotte? I do remember having that…)
17. Black truffle (not by itself, though)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (especially if apfelwein counts, but I've tasted other fruit wines)
19. Steamed pork buns (why would you have dim sum and avoid those?)
20. Pistachio ice cream (one that I had recently was especially yummy)
21. Heirloom tomatoes (I tend to be rather picky about tomatoes and I should have heirloom ones more frequently)
22. Fresh wild berries (oh, yes! I'm not a big fan of strawberries but wild strawberries are very nice. And the raspberries! Oh, the raspberries! Throughout Quebec, wild berries are really very common.)
23. Foie gras (though not on a poutine)
24. Rice and beans (for a while, it became my mainstay dish)
25. Brawn, or head cheese (and I've helped make some)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (not raw but I've had a fair bit cooked)
27. Dulce de leche (only discovered it a few years ago but it does go in the comfort food list)
28. Oysters (though I tend to prefer them au gratin than raw)
29. Baklava (I especially like the pistacchio ones but they're always good anyway)
30. Bagna cauda (Nope! Sounds interesting, though.)
31. Wasabi peas (what I like about these is that the spiciness is just a short little tinge and it leaves your tastebuds able to taste other things)
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (the first time may have been at Tufts)
33. Salted lassi (I like those kinds of tastes, almost reminds me of Tibetan tea)
34. Sauerkraut (just tonight, in fact!)
35. Root beer float (and tried other float experiments)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I don't smoke but I did visit some distilleries in the Cognac region)
37. Clotted cream tea (only clotted cream on scones, to accompany tea)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (only a few times: not my kind of thing)
39. Gumbo (I especially like it in Malian tô but I had some Indian gumbo this afternoon)
40. Oxtail (Swiss style)
41. Curried goat (not sure, actually; I've had goat, I've had curried meats, not sure about curried goat)
42. Whole insects (I'm not against it but I haven't seeked that out as a culinary experience)
43. Phaal (I don't think I did but I do like some South Indian dishes like that)
44. Goat's milk (I've had yoghurt, ice cream, and cheese made of goat's milk but not goat's milk by itself)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (I'm guessing the cask strength Oban was worth something like that. If not, some of our tasting sessions in Scotland may have including something like this.)
46. Fugu (nope, but I've been intrigued)
47. Chicken tikka masala (all the Indian chicken dishes I like)
48. Eel (mostly in sushi)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (overrated)
50. Sea urchin (mostly in a paste with sake: delicious)
51. Prickly pear (I'm pretty sure I did and I know I've had it in juice)
52. Umeboshi (sounds good, though! I'm pretty much a drupe-lover)
53. Abalone (I like most molluscs so I'm guessing I'd like it)
54. Paneer (made some: fun and tasty)
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal (way back when…)
56. Spaetzle (very common in Switzerland)
57. Dirty gin martini (I probably prefer it without the olive juice, though I like a dry martini with olives)
58. Beer above 8% ABV (I've made some)
59. Poutine (Quebec cuisine FTW!)
60. Carob chips (these were trendy at some point)
61. S'mores (a friend made an espresso drink based on those)
62. Sweetbreads (not among my favourite but we've done ris de veau at a restaurant where I used to work)
63. Kaolin (clay??)
64. Currywurst (I like pretty much all sausage dishes, though)
65. Durian (heard about it, intrigued about the smell)
66. Frogs' legs (though most French-Canadians have never eaten them, it's still the reason we're called frogs)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (and queue de castor)
68. Haggis (nope, but intriguing)
69. Fried plantain (we even did a whole "fried food" event and fried plantain was a big success)
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (not among my favourites)
71. Gazpacho (our family version is chunky but I've had other versions)
72. Caviar and blini (thanks to French housemates)
73. Louche absinthe (as well as straight)
74. Gjetost, or brunost (sounds interesting)
75. Roadkill (although, it depends how it's prepared)
76. Baijiu (I'm pretty sure I did but it might have been another liquor)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (sometimes, convenience store food just makes sense)
78. Snail (especially in garlic butter)
79. Lapsang souchong (among my favourite teas, along with genmaicha)
80. Bellini (I remember the taste so I guess I've had it, but I'm not positive)
81. Tom yum (I tend to be picky about it but I do enjoy it)
82. Eggs Benedict (and all sorts of variations on the theme)
83. Pocky (had similar chocolate coate cookies but I'm not sure they taste the same)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. (If only…)
85. Kobe beef (I'm trying to remember… I've had tasty Japanese beef but it probably wasn't ever kobe)
86. Hare (and my ex-wife used to hunt them, as a kid)
87. Goulash (one that I remember was at Les Assassins, in Paris, but it had more to do with the settings)
88. Flowers (not whole fresh ones, though)
89. Horse (among my favourite meats)
90. Criollo chocolate (I probably did but it wasn't pointed out)
91. Spam (I don't dislike it but it's not really my thing)
92. Soft shell crab (I did fish for soft shell crab but we didn't eat them)
93. Rose harissa (didn't know about that one but I love harissa)
94. Catfish (one of the first times was as a sandwich at the bus station in Gary, IN and I really liked it)
95. Mole poblano (and if I were still in Austin, I'd be having it regularly)
96. Bagel and lox (especially with real Montreal-style bagels, which I much prefer to New York style ones)
97. Lobster Thermidor (I prefer lobster with garlic butter)
98. Polenta (both as part of savoury dishes and with jam)
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (as overrated as overrated can get)
100. Snake (but I imagine I'd like it)
My impression of the list is that it's somewhat typical of "foodie culture" among Anglo-Americans. Many of these items are quite common in different parts of the world yet they represent "novelty items" in the UK/US. A few items have to do with actual rarity (the rose harissa is a good example) and I perceive foodie culture to be typically oriented toward "making sure you've tasted all the rarest items at least once."
Of course, the list includes a number of items which are supposed to gross out people. In fact, that's probably a big part of "the whole thing," the concept behind the "meme." Though any food culture has a distinction between edible and inedible items, this emphasis on "grossing out" is, I find, very typical of Anglo-American attitudes toward food. In a way, food is compartmentalized by what is perceived as its very nature and little attention is paid to the joy of eating as a social process. In fact, this list places food smack in the middle of consumption culture and takes it away from the culture of experience.
I mentioned that I find Blue Mountain coffee and Krispy Kreme donuts to be overrated. The fact that they're part of the list seems significant, in my mind. I perceive Krispy Kreme to be a "mass-marketed fad," even though the donuts are decent. Blue Mountain coffee beans are a bigger issue. Those who don't know coffee seem to associate certain broad coffee varietals with quality coffee and expensive coffee beans with a guarantee of quality. There are diverse problems with that. Between the quality of the varietal and the taste of the cup are a large number of factors including the specific estate, the specific crop, the picking method, the washing method, the roasting process, the freshness of the beans, and the whole brewing process (including grinding, water, manipulation, and device).
I've had coffee made with very expensive beans (more expensive than Blue Mountain) that was really very good and I've had much less expensive coffee which produced a wonderful cup. Blue Mountain coffee I've had tended to fall below my threshold for quality coffee. Same thing with most Kona beans. And though I've never had kopi luwak, I don't necessarily want to try it just because it's a novelty item.
One thing about my own list… There are several things which I'm unsure about. It may look like I'm not paying attention or that I'm pretending that I've had "the real thing." But I tend to pay a lot of attention to experience, not to brands or novelty. For instance, I'm quite convinced I've had chocolate made from criollo varieties of beans. The criollo varieties might even have been mentioned when I was eating (or drinking) that chocolate. I certainly remember hearing about criollo varieties. But I care more about the taste of a specific chocolate at a given time, in a given context than about making sure I've had what's considered the most "refined" version.
I'm more one to seek out a slightly better muffin. Or, more accurately, I'm one to try out muffins at different places and keep in mind something nice about all the pleasant muffin experiences I've had. I have in mind a generic "muffinness" and there are times when I feel like having a specific kind of muffin. But I'm never claiming that one muffin is intrinsically better than the other. Even when I say something is "good" or "better," I never really have standards in mind, absolute or relative.
One thing I do like about this Omnivore list is that it pushed me to think about different food items. I quite enjoy thinking about food. And the list does include items which are fairly diverse (though they're all available in semi-mainstream Anglo-American locations). There are patterns (in terms of Indian and Japanese cuisines, for instance), but it's still a bit more open-minded than the typical stripmall. About the same level of openness to the world's culinary diversity as a Whole Foods location.
Come to think of it, what if this list had been planted as a way to assess interest for items to be sold by a supermarket chain?
It's all a conspiracy.


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