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Welcome to the Kings Arms
Country Pub and Hotel in Sherborne
The Kings Arms, with its original facade, stylishly chic interior, picturesque garden and beautiful bedrooms is the ideal venue for both social and business alike.
Situated in the pretty village of Charlton Horethorne, near Sherborne close to the Somerset and Dorset border, this 5 star Inn has been totally renovated and restored by its owners, Sarah Lethbridge and Tony Lethbridge, and now offers a chic Dorset Country Pub and Hotel with 10 luxury en-suite bedrooms, a modern restaurant, bar and terrace area and staff ready to offer you a very warm welcome.
Accommodation in Sherborne
For overnight stays or lazy indulgent weekends, we have created 10 individually designed en-suite rooms, all fully equipped with free WIFI, flat screen televisions and DVDs, tea and coffee making facilities. Each room has a luxury marble wet room, large fluffy towels, bathrobes and luxury products.
Restaurant in Sherborne
Quite simply ... here at The Kings Arms, we love good food and wine.
Our classically trained chefs use seasonal produce at its best to create traditional and modern British dishes, with a little influence from around the world. Everything is made in our kitchens including bread, pasta and Ice Creams. All freshly cooked to order, diners can choose the chic bar area for a light snack to main meal or our elegant main restaurant.
With over 50 quality bottles of wine to choose from, 13 available by the glass, there is something for everyone here. You can relax in style in the comfort of the bar, enjoy a summers evening on the terrace, enjoy a game of croquet on the lawn or during the cooler weather, relax by the fire or sink into a cosy sofa.
Our team has a passion for excellence, so you can be assured of a first class service in a relaxed friendly atmosphere, whether you join us for coffee, lunch or dinner, with friends or business or come to explore the many attractions Dorset has to offer.
To download our menus please see our Restaurant Food page.
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South Africa v Brazil (1700 GMT)
Should Brazil fall short on home soil this summer, the question will be asked: should they perhaps have taken their preparation a little more seriously? Their national board's determination to pimp the Seleçao out to the highest bidder has seen them play in Beijing, Toronto, Massachusetts and now Johannesburg, where they take on a lamentably weak South Africa side nursing a sharp sense of decline since the disappointment of becoming the first World Cup hosts to go out in the first round. That said, they did turn Spain over a few months ago, which shows they can offer a stern test on their day.Picture: EPA

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Mon 4/22: KQEH OTA signal back on air
(DT54.1 through DT54.5)
The Over the Air (OTA) signal from our KQEH transmitter on Monument Peak was restored at apx 6:35pm this evening. Most tuners should automatically find the signal, however some OTA viewers may need to do a rescan to restore reception.
Mon 4/22: KQEH OTA planned overnight outage extended
Unexpected technical problems have been discovered at the KQEH transmitter site during planned maintenance overnight. KQED crews have identified the problem and are working to correct it as soon as possible.
Please check back to this blog for status updates.
Service to Comcast and other providers are uninterrupted.
early Mon 4/22 midnight-6am: KQEH OTA planned overnight outage
(DT54.1 through DT54.5)
Early in the morning of April 22nd starting at 12 midnight KQEH will need to shut down for electrical maintenance and transmitter work. The Over the Air (OTA) signal should be back before 6am.
Comcast Cable customers, and customers of other paid providers using fiber feed out of our San Francisco Master Control area should not be affected by this work.
Most receivers should automatically recover the OTA signal when it is restored early Monday morning. However a few viewers may need to do a rescan in order to restore the signal.
Tues 4/09 5:20am-8:20am – KQEH (DT54s) off air
Our DT54.1-5 Over The Air (OTA) transmissions from our tower on Monument Peak were interrupted for 3 hours this morning, from 5:20am to 8:20am. Service Providers using the DT54.1 signal for KQED Plus restored their carriage of the channel as soon as the signal returned.
Most tuners in digital TVs and/or converter boxes will automatically recover from an outage of that short a duration. However, a few OTA viewers may need to do a rescan in order to restore the DT54 signal.


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Nathan Carlow Candidate
Buxton School Board
A Bonny Eagle High School junior, now a student representative to the SAD 6 School Board, is seeking a seat in the June election as a full-fledged member of the board.
Nathan Carlow of Buxton, who turns 18 on May 18, is running for a two-year term on the panel, challenging Ellen H. Decotiis, who was appointed to the School Board by Buxton selectmen in July 2016 to fill a vacancy. She is now seeking election to the post.
"Community feedback has been very receptive of the idea of a student being on the board," Carlow said by telephone Tuesday.
"I'm running for SAD 6 School Board to give my peers a true seat at the table," Carlow said in a Facebook posting. "If elected, I promise to ensure a quality education for all."
Carlow is the son of Michele and Pete Boudreau of Buxton.


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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm super-excited to have a guest blogger for you today — Shane Draper of Draper's BBQ. A proud veteran and entrepreneur, Shane has one of the best sauces and rubs out on the market today (that I've had the honor of reviewing). He's also quite the pitmaster, having cooked with Team Tucker Cooker at Memphis in May. Today Shane reviews the ThermoWorks TW8060.
Thermoworks TW8060 Review by Shane Draper of Draper's BBQ
I was recently given the opportunity to review a couple of products by Thermoworks. Being a near-religious user of their Thermapen (here's a link to Big Wayner's review of the Thermapen) I quickly agreed. Anyone who knows me knows how much I cherish my orange Thermapen. I have stopped using any other thermometer. I became such a big fan of this device this summer. I put off paying the money for a Thermapen for the past couple of years, trying my best to ignore the posts on different forums saying just how amazing these units are. I finally broke down and bought myself one and I am glad I did. I often equate the Thermapen to Tivo. No, it's not required to watch TV, but once you have it you really can't imagine NOT having it. That is exactly how I feel about my Thermapen. It's not that I can't cook without it, it's that I won't. I can check a whole pit of chicken halves (around 50) in the time it would take me to accurately check about 10 with any other so called "quick read" device. The Thermapen is literally the only thermometer that I believe earns the moniker of quick read. To say I have high expectations of everything from Thermoworks is fair and accurate. So, as you can imagine, I was anxious to test the TW8060!
What ThermoWorks has to say
Let's start the review with what Thermoworks has to say about the TW8060:
"Our new TW8060 is a simple-to-use 2-channel thermocouple alarm thermometer with convenient backlit display. An ideal cooking thermometer, the TW8060 can monitor your food item and the oven temperature simultaneously and alert you when it's done. Also records Max and Min temperatures of both channels so you'll know what limits were reached during your process. A handy tool in a small, compact package. Uses type K thermocouples so high temperatures are not a problem. Choose from hundreds of probes.
Great tool for BBQing. Insert one probe into meat and the other can be used to monitor the grill temp, or smoker. As featured on Alton Brown's Good Eats recent BBQ special "Right on Q" (click here to read more about it on our blog)."
Sounds like a great unit and hey if it's good enough for a near cult legend like Alton Brown who is known for his kitchen gadgetry then it probably is going to meet or exceed the average Joe's needs and expectations.
First Impressions of the TW8060
The first thing you will notice when you unbox this unit is that it's not like most other thermometer-probe units. This one feels a bit more like an instrument. What do I mean by that? The TW8060 gives you the impression it was once used for something much more complex and strenuous than just reading the current temp of your Big Green Egg and your brisket at the same time. The screen of the TW8060 is initially protected by a clear sticker that proclaims "Environmental Instrument." You can tell this unit was likely adapted from commercial, industrial or business use and, if you cook as much as I do, that is a very good thing.
The unit itself isn't overly large or heavy. It fits the hand nicely and has a very nice easy to read screen. There are 6 buttons which appear very self explanatory. Overall, a smart design that looks fairly easy to use. The unit also has as dust cover that goes on top of it to keep debris out of the ports where the probes connect.
The next thing I noticed were the probes. They are awesome and deserve their own section breaking down just how great they are. Fortunately, the next section does just that.
Probing the Issue
It is fair to say there is as much money in the probes of the test unit I was sent as the device itself. You can tell. These probes are awesome and easily the nicest I've ever seen. The gauge of wire used is much thicker than that of other probes. The protective shielding is stronger and they use a two prong positive / negative connector which I have never seen. Typically probes use a 3.5mm headphone jack style connector.
The two prong connectors intrigued me enough that I actually requested to be put in touch with a engineer at Thermoworks so I could "probe deeper into the issue" (say it like Dr. Evil and that's mildly funny). The response I got back was:
"The connectors are different because the TW8060 uses "Standard" industry Mini Thermocouple probes rather than Thermistors. Most other oven Thermometers use Thermistors, just like the TW362B with the stereo plug jack.
We decided to use Thermocouples due to the temperature use range, durability, more water resistant, and larger selection of uses, etc. (The 362XX probe thermistor sensor – for example – will fail if heavy steam seeps into the sensor. A Thermocouple would not be affected in the same environment.)"
The next thing I noticed concerned the pit temp probe. This is the first probe I've ever seen (I understand there may be others) with an integrated clip that is intended to hold the probe exactly where you want it. In fact the thermocouple itself is located at the very tip of the alligator clip. I can't tell you how many times I needed something like this. Putting a pit probe in your bbq contraption is one thing but putting it EXACTLY where you want it and knowing it will stay there is a huge advantage.
Because of how precise the placement of the pit probe could be, I decided to do a test cook on our Ole Hickory CTO. I did so only because I have always wondered what the temp variance was between the 4 racks and also from front to back on each rack. This is the first device that allowed me to accurately measure this difference. Now, armed with this information, I have a much better idea where and where to place different cuts of meat for different results. This is a big deal for pit masters, especially those of us who are starting to move to the "hot and fast" cooking method.
The next thing to note about the probes is the length. This has long been my biggest complaint about most units. The probes are usually just long enough be awkward. It's safe to say that Thermoworks has decided to err on the side of making sure there is enough length on the probes. The meat probe is right at 6ft long which is plenty for most any pit. The pit temp probe I was sent is 8ft which is awesome. So many times, especially on larger pits, I have actually run a completely different thermometer if I needed to read something on the opposite side of the pit. I don't foresee that being a problem here.
As you can see from the pic above I have the probes inside the pit with the doors closed and then I extended the connector, backing away from the pit until the wire was taught before taking the picture. To give you an idea of scale the CTO is right at 5ft tall. So yeah the probes are pretty darned long.
One last thing to note is the thickness of the meat probe they sent. Holy cow this thing is built to last. I have personally bent a couple of probes while cooking whole hog and hams. This is something I can honestly say I don't think could ever happen with this unit. Notice the probe in relation to the brisket in the pic below. This is a smaller brisket but you can get the idea.
Wanna See My Unit
I know I mentioned in passing earlier about how nice and big the display is on this unit. It really does deserve to be highlighted. You can see in the pic below just how easy the display is on the eyes. Also the display has a back light for low light conditions. Unfortunately I couldn't get a pic to turn out quite right, but the light is very good and does work very well. The only way I could imagine the back light being better is if it used some sort of Indiglo like Timex uses. It's not needed though, the light really does the job well.
Also note in the pic the 6 buttons of the device. Being a stubborn guy ("guy" being the operative word) I was able to use the device without referring to the manual. I did go back and do a quick read through of the manual after I finished testing, though. Thermoworks did an absolutely outstanding manual for the Thermapen. This manual isn't as educational, but is very easy to understand and use.
I think it is important to highlight the speed in the readings on this unit as well. Immediate response is a very accurate description. I wish I had a video to show just how quick the thermocouples used in the TW8060 respond to changes in temp and how fast that is displayed. Had I thought more about it I would have staged a race between my orange Thermapen and the TW8060. I have to say I think the TW8060 might just have an edge in the speed department. So what color is the fastest Thermapen? Grey and Yellow :). I know its an unfair comparison as the Thermapen is a compact unit and the TW8060 isn't. I just wanted everyone to understand just how fast this unit is. Thermoworks hit another home run in this department.
Function, Function, What's Your Function
Ok, so by now you know I like this unit, how well it is built and some of the features, but none of that really covers how it works. Here is where I won't belabor any points. If you have a bbq pit or have ever cooked a Thanksgiving turkey you know how these units typically work. You jab the beast with a probe, set the temp you want to get an alarm at and go grab a beer on your way back to watching the football game. At least that is what I do. This unit functions as it should and it is easy to set up.
There are a few things that should be noted that might be missed by the average user. First I really like that it has a high and low temp alarm as most units don't. Second is the temp range of this unit, it can read from -328 to 2372°F (-200 to 1300°C). Can I get a WOW on that one? Third is the accuracy of the reading. This unit has no more than a +/- of .02% rate of error at any degree and most of its range it is within a .01%. Again AMAZING and it makes you wonder why more companies don't use thermocouples. Next this unit includes a Max/Min function. While the unit is powered on, it will continuously record the maximum and minimum recorded temperature. The Max/Min temperatures will be stored until they are cleared by the user, even if the power is shut off. I'm not 100% sure how I will use this handy power, but I am sure it will be useful and it is not included on any of my other units. Finally, some kudos should be given to Thermoworks for using industry standard probes and offering a good mix of them to the end user on their website. This allows the end user to configure the TW8060 exactly the way they want it and even have spare or different probes available as their needs change. It's a small thing but a good thing.
There are only two places I would have to ding this unit. First is that it does not have a 2 channel alarm and it should, especially considering the cost of entry on the unit. The alarm only covers channel 1, so note that before buying. I think this is something that could be easily remedied in future revisions of the product and, given the product cost, Thermoworks should address it. Next, it should ship with some sort of stand that keeps the unit upright. There is a great one that is available as an add-on, but again, for the money it should be included, in my humblest of opinions.
What I Liked
- Speed, this thing is fast and a performer
- Design, well made near industrial quality that is still easy to use
- The probes, easily the best I have ever seen. Cannot say enough about how excellent these probes are compared to any other's I have used.
- Screen, easily readable even in low light due to back light feature.
- Dust / debris cover for the top of the unit for when it is not in use.
- Functionality that I've never seen in any other unit, Max/Min feature is an excellent idea.
- Range of readings is nothing short of exceptional.
- Good list of accessories, including different probes that allow the end user to set up this unit just the way they want, an awesome case and a very cool stand.
What Could Be Improved
It's fair to admit that I am not often easily impressed, nor do I review any product without mentioning places for improvement, so understand some of these improvements could be considered a little "nit picky" by some. That said, here are my suggested improvements:
- Alarm on both channels. Why? To be such a high end unit it just seems logical to have an alarm on both channels.
- Positive lock for the yellow probe connectors. While this isn't completely necessary I think it would be nice to have. Maybe the dust cover could be altered in a way where it could stay on the unit while the probes are inserted. This unit is expensive and I would hate to see it accidentally picked up by the probe wires and the unit disconnect and fall to the ground.
- Magnet on the back of the unit. Why? Because most bbq pits are metal and it would make sense to be able to stick the unit on the side of your smoker out of the way until you need it. At least use the attachment point on the back of unit and develop a magnet that could be sold as an accessory.
- Ship from factory with a stand. Again this is an expensive unit and for the price it would be nice to have. There is an awesome stand available as an accessory that I will be purchasing.
I don't want to end the review of this unit on anything less than a positive note. I am a believer in the TW8060 and pretty much anything that Thermoworks decides to produce. In fact I believe in Thermoworks products so much I have literally bought a Thermapen for everyone who cooks with me. Yes, that is a lot of money, but when you cook for the public at large events serving something that's raw can cost you even more. We as a company trust Thermoworks. The bottom line on the TW8060 is that it is what I expect from Thermoworks: A fine product that does the job. No it's not the cheapest product, but it is one of the best in many categories. Go check out the TW8060. Oh, and tell the folks at Thermoworks that I sent you.
Thanks again to Shane Draper of Draper's BBQ for what might have to be one of the most in-depth reviews of a gadget that I have seen in a long time! Also a big thank you to Jesse Black of ThermoWorks for providing the gear for review.
If you are interested in finding out more info on the TW8060, you can visit the product page at http://www.thermoworks.com/products/handheld/TW8060.html. Enjoy!!


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Amber Portwood, Gary Shirley to Form United Front, Battle State For Baby Leahby Free Britney at . Comments
Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley have their differences, but the Teen Mom tandem is in agreement that they want control of Leah and contact with each other.
The pair will separately appear in an Anderson, Ind., court today in a bid to achieve both goals. For Gary, it's a No Contact Order against Amber he wants gone.
For Amber, it's to get the Department of Child Services out of her life, so that she can raise her baby girl without her being a ward of the State of Indiana.
One of Gamber's rare civil moments.
"Amber and Gary have the same goals," a source close to the pair said. "They want the Department of Child Services out, so everything can go back to normal."
Normal often meant Gary getting his ass whomped, with Leah present no less, so it's very possible the Department of Child Services could deny their request.
"If DCS denies Gary's request, he'll know what he's up against," the source said.
And you thought those altercations at Buffalo Wild Wings were intense ...That's not even all, either.
Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley share custody of Leah, 2, but due to an ongoing domestic violence probe of Amber, she needs to prove parental competence.
Felony charges could also land her behind in the slammer.
Despite bad-mouthing her a lot, Gary Shirley doesn't want Amber to end up in jail, our source tells us: "He and Amber both realize they have a child in common."
"Both of them just want to make sure nothing goes wrong."
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Blast from the Past!
This post was originally posted on August 30, 2010 during our western U.S. vacation. I am bringing it forward as a "blast from the past" post.
After visiting the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center and Fort Caspar on July 11, 2010. we continued on to Pathfinder Reservoir, where we set up camp right on the shore.
In the midst of the heavy rustling of cottonwood leaves and the lapping of waves on the shore, a twittering and chittering could be heard. At first it seemed to be just a part of the background of the windy day at Wyoming's Pathfinder Reservoir. On investigation, though, it turned to be an upset female Bullock's Oriole.
Her mate seemed to be busy flying back and forth and searching for food.
These were the only Bullock's Orioles we saw on the whole trip.


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Loyola at a Glance
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Loyola Foursquare receives American Marketing Association award
June 24, 2011
It's not been a year yet since Loyola University New Orleans' Office of Marketing and Communication and FSC Interactive launched Foursquare at the university and already the location-based social media application has gained top recognition from local marketing peers.
FSC, Loyola's social media partner, won an award of excellence for the university's use of Foursquare at the American Marketing Association New Orleans awards luncheon on June 9 at the National WWII Museum. The 2011 Marketing Awards of Excellence (MAX) honored marketing programs executed in the year 2010, which were deemed by a panel of judges to be true examples of marketing excellence.
An important goal of any university is attracting and keeping qualified students by building a sense of kinship and community among them. Foursquare is a location-based social platform that creates relationships around checking in, exploring and leaving tips at geographical locations. Marry the two ideas and you have a social media platform that builds student engagement and an affinity with the university.
FSC negotiated for Loyola University to be part of Foursquare's prestigious Beta testing program targeting universities around the country. Loyola was one of only 14 schools nationwide that was asked to be a part of the program.
The way Foursquare works is that students check in with their mobile devices at various locations on and off campus and share their experiences with others and are united with an online community through this social mobile application. Current and prospective students interact with one another through insider tips, specials and "competitions" for mayorship.
"Foursquare is a great venue to promote our programs and events," said Heather Roundtree, director of Co-Curricular Programs. "It's another way for our campus to be interconnected and engaging. Foursquare is just another way we have continued to keep the momentum towards incorporating social media outlets here on campus."
Foursquare turns social networking into a running game, with points being added to your account every time a person uses Foursquare to check in at a particular venue. By checking in, users can leave comments or tips to others on the Foursquare network, while earning more points. The more you check in, the more "badges" users receive and the person who checks in the most at a particular place, whether it's the chemistry lab or Cooter Brown's, earns the distinction of being "mayor" of that particular venue.
The Loyola community can easily download the application to their smart phone and not only learn interesting facts about campus life, but also find out more about the surrounding neighborhood and comment on their favorite places. Go to www.Foursquare.com/Loyola_nola to view buildings and venues around campus and sign up yourself. Then, download Foursquare to your phone, search for Loyola and start following us. Search for areas around campus and "Check In" to get started.
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ncm(at)zembu(dot)com (Nathan Myers) writes: > The CRC-64 code used in the SWISS-PROT genetic database is (now) at: > ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/swissprot/Swissknife/old/SPcrc.tar.gz > From the README: > The code in this package has been derived from the BTLib package > obtained from Christian Iseli <chris(at)ludwig-alpha(dot)unil(dot)ch>. > From his mail: > The reference is: W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, and > B. P. Flannery, "Numerical recipes in C", 2nd ed., Cambridge University > Press. Pages 896ff. > The generator polynomial is x64 + x4 + x3 + x1 + 1. Nathan (or anyone else with a copy of "Numerical recipes in C", which I'm embarrassed to admit I don't own), is there any indication in there that anyone spent any effort on choosing that particular generator polynomial? As far as I can see, it violates one of the standard guidelines for choosing a polynomial, namely that it be a multiple of (x + 1) ... which in modulo-2 land is equivalent to having an even number of terms, which this ain't got. See Ross Williams' A PAINLESS GUIDE TO CRC ERROR DETECTION ALGORITHMS, available from ftp://ftp.rocksoft.com/papers/crc_v3.txt among other places, which is by far the most thorough and readable thing I've ever seen on CRCs. I spent some time digging around the net for standard CRC64 polynomials, and the only thing I could find that looked like it might have been picked by someone who understood what they were doing is in the DLT (digital linear tape) standard, ECMA-182 (available from http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-182.HTM): x^64 + x^62 + x^57 + x^55 + x^54 + x^53 + x^52 + x^47 + x^46 + x^45 + x^40 + x^39 + x^38 + x^37 + x^35 + x^33 + x^32 + x^31 + x^29 + x^27 + x^24 + x^23 + x^22 + x^21 + x^19 + x^17 + x^13 + x^12 + x^10 + x^9 + x^7 + x^4 + x + 1 I'm probably going to go with this one unless someone can come up with an authoritative source for another one. regards, tom lane
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Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Gas prices are at a 6 year high. Obama's solution…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Gas prices are at a 6 year high. Obama's solution…
… change the length of a year.
…involves reminding people that their energy prices would necessarily skyrocket if he had his way, so, "how do like me now?"
…is to raise the minimum wage so working families don't have to choose between health insurance and gas. That doesn't work since health insurance is mandatory. Okay, between birth control and gas. That doesn't work either since birth control is free. Um, between food and gas. Well, you can get an EBT card… Oh never mind!
…go play golf
…wag the dog (before eating it)
…tax oil companies.
…tax gas sales.
…free birth control.
…tax complainers. (calls 'em whiners)
start pricing by the liter, so it seems less costly.
Big Metric never sleeps.
Sign an Executive Order mandating all vehicles other than golf carts get at least 100 MPG by the year 2015. Then go play golf.
Solution? High gas prices ARE Obama's solution. The problems he was solving were liberty and prosperity.
…is to claim that Republicans are blocking him at every turn. This is NOT an imperial presidency!!
…light a match and watch the whole damn thing burn.
… declare it covered under Obamacare at employer's expense.
The Affordable Gasoline Act. (AGA) otherwise known as ObamaCar. Let the state take over the pumps. Sure, what could go wrong?
…is to go for the all-time record!
…check the news the next day, and claim there is no there there.
Attack an oil producing country to get then closer to his $5/gallon goal he set at the beginning of his presidency.
… is to tell people to stop driving — get a phone and a pen, and learn how to use them.
… blame Bush.
Increasing taxis — not penalties.
… put a new tax on gasoline so that the government can provide a subsidy to those gas purchasers that vote democrat.
Require all Americans, even the ones that walk everywhere, to buy gas. Then give out subsidies to those who can't afford it.
A gun registry of motor vehicles. Oh, you noticed what he did there?
… was apparently to have GM recall every vehicle so that drivers wouldn't notice.
… was to issue an Executive Order renaming it "Benghazoline," so the press won't mention it.
…push for cars that run on renewable fuels such as unicorn farts.
… was to have Global Warming ™ scientists go back and "adjust" the raw data so that it appears that gas prices are at an all-time low.
(Really…. They do that with thermometer readings, you know.)
…..get them to a 17 trillion year high.
… is to replace diesel power with D-cell power. Next?
Oh, you can't afford that many D-batteries? Declare access to D-cells a "fundamental right."
… was to have the NSA track the driving habits of all Americans,
the Justice Department monitor the phones of all reporters who cover this story,
the FTC sue gas stations that raised their prices when the government raised its taxes,
the IRS audit any group that organizes to protest,
the MSM call it a phony crisis,
the EPA conduct on-site investigatons,
National Parks to close, to save gas,
and — geez,nit's scary how easy it is to think like Obama!
…payment options are now Cash, Grass or Just Ask Nicely.
…Keystone pipeline workers get go-ahead, paid with Viagra.
…shorten the roads = lessening the mileage.
…double deck the buses he throws people under.
…put Tim Howard at a really busy intersection, directing traffic.
raise federal gas tax
…raise gas prices.


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Feds say Loeffel toxic water treatment system is working
EPA says that despite dispute, Loeffel dump filter system is working
Published 6:59 pm, Thursday, January 30, 2014
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is defending claims its $2.5 million water treatment system was not working well enough to allow treated water into the Valatie Kill after cleansing toxins seeping through water beneath of Dewey Loeffel dump.
This week, Nassau Town Supervisor David Fleming said EPA officials had told him that toxic water had to be run through the system multiple times before it reached cleanup standards, something that was disputed Thursday by Doug Garbarini, regional chief of remediation for the EPA.
Located 4 miles northeast of the village of Nassau, the 16-acre unlined site contains about 46,000 tons of PCBs, solvents and other toxic chemicals that were dumped by General Electric, the former Schenectady International (now SI Group) and Bendix Corp. from 1952 to 1970, when it was closed by court order. That is about twice as much toxins as were contained in the infamous Love Canal toxic dump.
The treatment plant is part of a $10 million agreement reached in 2012 by the EPA with GE and SI to clean toxic waste from the Loeffel dump that has tainted water in Rensselaer and Columbia counties. The contaminated water from the dump extends about 2,500 feet south toward Central Nassau Road, and contains benzene and tricholoroethylene, a type of industrial solvent and a known carcinogen.
Garbarini said the treatment system was designed to process water multiple times if required, and that the system has more than enough capacity to process all the tainted water expected to come from the dump.
The system can cleanse up to 7.8 million gallons a year, which is about triple what has been coming from extraction wells and a collection system, he said.
The system is being tested while running at about 15 percent of its designed capacity.
"We are pulling about two gallons a minute now. We are starting off slowly, we are working our way up to four to five gallons per minute," Garbarini said. "As we step things up, we will continue to test the water as it goes into storage tanks before it is discharged into the Valatie Kill."
In the spring, the EPA may consider adding more extraction wells beyond the three already in place, as a way of getting more water to treat.
Fleming said he was frustrated with the EPA. "I remain unconvinced, when they are treating a small volume of actual contamination, that the system has proven itself to be effective," he said. "I want proof at full operational conditions that this plant is going to work. No one wants EPA to succeed more than I do."
He said one holding tank of water that had been treated multiple times did not meet safety standards, and was trucked away for disposal elsewhere. The processed water in two other tanks did meet standards, and that water was released Friday into the Valatie Kill.
Garbarini said the EPA will continue slowly increasing the production rate at the plant and testing the water for at least a month before deciding whether to begin discharging processed water directly into the creek, rather than into holding tanks.
Testing has found "no detectable levels" of contaminants including PCBs and 1, 4 -dioxane, an industrial solvent, he said.
The system was not designed to remove dioxane, he added, and it could be modified later to do so, if needed. "We will be keeping an eye on this as we ramp up production," he said.
About 10 miles downstream from the dump, officials in the village of Valatie, which relies on wells near the Valatie Kill to provide drinking water for about 2,000 people, are concerned about discharges of treated water.
The village is planning a new filtration plant for its well system, but filtration would address only biological contamination, not potential chemical toxins.
Garbarini said the village's well system is not "under the influence" of surface water, like the Valatie Kill, and that pumping treated water that meets safety standards into the creek does not present any public health risk.
In 2011, the EPA took control of the cleanup and made it a federal Superfund site. The cleaning has been fraught with problems and the state in 1968 ordered a cleanup by Loeffel, the dump's private owner. After a dozen fruitless years, the state took over the project in 1980 and remained responsible until the EPA took over.
At that point, the Valatie Kill, Nassau Lake and Kinderhook Lake in Columbia County were already contaminated. PCB-tainted fish from those bodies of water have been listed by the state as unsafe to eat since 1980.
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Eric Dybsand was a pillar of the development community, warm and welcoming to all. His untimely death was a blow to the whole industry, but more so for his specialist field of Artificial Intelligence. Eric was well-known at GDC for being one of the original "3 AI guys" — a group that included Steve Woodcock and Neil Kirby. Together, they ran the AI roundtables — a GDC fixture that continues to this day.
Each year, AI developers gather during GDC to toast his memory, and each year – in Eric's honor – one student with an interest in AI is chosen to be the recipient of the Eric Dybsand Memorial AI Scholarship and to attend GDC, receiving the welcome and attention that Eric freely gave to others.
Applications for GDC 2018 closed on December 8th 2017.
The Dybsand Scholar receives all of the benefits of the IGDA Scholars program, studio tours, VIP opportunities and so forth. In addition, they also receive:
- Mentoring from a range of AI professionals
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Urgent Action Needed to Ensure Millions of Children Unregistered at Birth Are Kept in the Picture
LONDON - Millions of children around the world can't prove who and how old they are, meaning governments and development partners are unable to plan for their present and future needs, reveals Plan International's new research paper, Birth Registration and Children's Rights: A Complex Story. This poses serious implications for reducing poverty in developing nations.
Around the world, about 230 million children under the age of five have not had their births registered, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific, while more than 100 developing countries still do not have functioning systems that can support efficient civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems.
"We initiated this research because there is a knowledge gap on birth registration and its relationship to other rights. Yet while the research has produced some solid evidence, it also raises many questions," said Jacqueline Gallinetti, Plan's Head of Research.
In Vietnam, children need to have their births registered in order to access health services or to enroll in school. In Kenya, a birth certificate is required to take national exams. But this is not the case in other countries like India or Sierra Leone.
"Unregistered children are at greater risk of exclusion, but at the same time we must be mindful of the potential unintended consequences of birth registration initiatives. Government efforts to achieve universal birth registration can create barriers to education when they are rigidly implemented so as to make a birth certificate a strict requirement for going to school or taking exams," said Nicoleta Panta, Plan's Count Every Child Manager.
"The key finding of our research is that the relationship between birth registration and children's rights is complex and context specific and so we call for governments and development partners to use the research findings to inform, plan and implement birth registration interventions," she added.
In some countries, civil registration data is not used for planning, policy development, or resource distribution because birth registration rates are low and the systems in place are unreliable. However, government officials aspire to use birth registration data for these purposes in the future and they recognize that civil registration data (including birth registration) is preferable to other forms of data because it is exact, continuous, and in real time.
Plan's research findings show that, although birth registration can promote children rights, it may also be used for government purposes that are not rights friendly, such as restricting the rights of migrant children.
Plan therefore recommends that birth registration in developing countries be consistent with human rights principles and standards, and be viewed not as a solution to poverty in itself, but as a component of a broad range of issues, such as enforcement of the law and child protection.
Birth registration is a fundamental child right and should be part of an effective and rights-based CRVS system. The research suggests that these systems have the potential to benefit individuals, governments, and the wider global community.
Plan therefore calls for greater investment in effective, comprehensive, and rights-based CRVS systems, including every child's right to birth registration.
About Count Every Child
Plan International implemented Count Every Child activities in 36 program countries around the world. Since 2005, Plan has helped register 40 million children and influenced laws in 10 countries so that 153 million more can enjoy the right to birth registration. As part of its Count Every Child initiative, Plan is calling for greater investment in effective, comprehensive, and rights-based civil registration and vital statistics systems and wants national governments to make registration free and accessible for all so children can be registered as soon after birth as possible.
About Plan International USA
Plan International USA is part of the Plan International Federation, a global organization that works side by side with communities in 50 developing countries to end the cycle of poverty for children and their families. Plan works at the community level to develop customized solutions and ensure long-term sustainability. Our solutions are designed up-front to be owned by communities for generations to come and range from clean water and healthcare programs to education projects and child protection initiatives. For more information, please visit www.PlanUSA.org.


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Quite a while ago, there was a game on here that was about a guy stuck in a pit with a talking, sentient gun. You would climb upwards through the levels, collecting gems (traded for upgrades), shooting enemies, and there was a boss at the end of each level.There was also a crazy evil scientist.I have spent a long time looking through the games, trying to find this one again. If anyone remembers the name, please share!
You are most likely looking for Diamond Hollow II. Or perhaps you are looking for Diamond Hollow, which is the prequel to the first game I linked to.
That's the one! Awesome! Thanks so much for recognizing it and posting the answer!
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Skip to comments.Obama Thanksgiving Proclamation 2012 (FULL TEXT)
Posted on 11/21/2012 9:48:43 PM PST by garjog
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with family, partners and friends to recount the benefits lavished upon us this past year.
This day is a time to take stock of what we have gained after a long struggle of securing rights to share in the bounty that this nation has produced.
Thanks to our hard fought efforts, we are grateful that we are beginning to see a better distribution of resources that hold the promise of enriching our lives.
As we see needs being met by a multitude of re-distributive programs take effect, we are reminded of the indelible spirit of compassion and fairness that has distinguished our Nation since its earliest days.
When the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony gave thanks for a bountiful harvest nearly four centuries ago, they sat down to enjoy the fruits of the labor of the Wampanoag tribe -- a people who knew that community means to share among everyone.
We look to the generosity of the natives now for inspiration that America can still be great if we have the courage to spread wealth among all Americans.
We know that it was only a few years later that these peaceful, earth-friendly natives had to face exploitation of white immigrants who took their land and left many dead. But, we can still learn from their example.
When President George Washington marked our democracy's first Thanksgiving, he evoked the sentiment that it is always right that those who possess stockpiles of goods should be willing to spread their wealth among the needy, feed the hungry and satisfy inalienable desires for equality.
And when our Nation was torn by civil war, President Abraham Lincoln also voiced concern that in his wisdom every American has a birth right to decent health care, affordable housing and government supplemented food aide when needed.
Those expressions of fairness still echo as reminders for us today, that in spite of the memory of the denial of human rights to Native Americans, or the strife caused by a capitalist system our forebears established to attain class privileges, we still might move forward to create a fairer society.
As we reflect on our heritage, let us also give thanks to those who honor it by giving back.
This Thanksgiving, thousands of campaign workers, unionists, community organizers and human rights activists will sit down to enjoy a hot meal and a place to stay.
We are grateful that there are still some in our land who fight to make sure that everybodys got a fair shot.
They remind us of a rock solid truth that bind us together on this holiday of reflection: for each according to his or her need. From each according to his or her ability!
This thanksgiving we are witnessing our nation being transformed into a place we can all take pride in.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 22, 2012, as a National Day of Thanksgiving.
I encourage the people of the United States to join together -- whether in our homes, union halls, bath houses, community centers, family planning clinics, or any place of fellowship for friends and neighbors -- and thanks each other for all we have received in the past year, express appreciation to those whose lives enrich our own, and share our bounty with others.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of November, in the common era two thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.
Pretty Good!
Obama mocks scripture. What he really thinks.
Fake but accurate! :-)
After I eat.
YES....click on the link
Reagan refutes Obama
Here is what he actually said.
When I read the speech, it seemed almost like a parody since Obama barely mentions God.
He says that Washington prayed to our Creator. Then he mentions being mindful of God's grace. That is it.
The best thing to do is just read the ones from George Washington for the next four years.
Sorry, I have a mute button marked bama and I am certainly not going to waste my time READING his lies.
Yes, this is a weak parody, as it is more like,
Let us give thanks to the Almighty and Progressive Government, which in its Wisdom realizes that it is Unjust for a class of people to presume that they may attain more wealth, power and privilege because of their efforts to earn these;
And that their voluntarily sharing of some of this wealth is to be according to their judgment, and is called charity.
And instead your Lord Government sees this as the oppression that it really is, as all are worthy of the same standard of living regardless of whether they worked to develop their talent, character and resources, and indeed it is their right to the same blessings even if they squander such, as even your Lord Government examples, as it also has Itself "climbed up some other way" to power.
And thus it has worked to redistribute the wealth of those who earned it under the racist Capitalist system, which favors those of lighter complexion, so that under the Holy Socialist System all may someday enjoy the same standard of living, made available thru such Sacraments as Food Stamps, SSI, Medicare, under the Benevolent eye of the Liberal Elite who Alone ought to be worshiped.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness. (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html)
Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, November 1, 1777 Forasmuch as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of;... It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States, to set apart Thursday, the 18th day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise; that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts, and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor; and that together with their sincere acknowledgments and offerings, they may join the penitent confession of their manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance;...may render them fit instruments, under the providence of Almighty God...to take schools and seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating the principles of true liberty, virtue and piety, under his nurturing hand, and to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consisteth in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. (http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=3847)
Congressional Fast Day Proclamation, March 20, 1779 WHEREAS, in just Punishment of our manifold Transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all Events to visit these United States with a calamitous War, through which his Divine Providence hath hitherto in a wonderful Manner conducted us, so that we might acknowledge that the Race is not to the Swift, nor the Battle to the Strong: AND WHEREAS, notwithstanding the Chastisements received and Benefits bestowed, too few have been sufficiently awakened to a Sense of their Guilt, or warmed with Gratitude, or taught to amend their Lives and turn from their Sins, that so he might turn his Wrath: AND WHEREAS, from a Consciousness of what we have merited at his Hands, and an Apprehension that the Malevolence of our disappointed Enemies, like the Incredulity of Pharaoh, may be used as the Scourge of Omnipotence to vindicate his slighted Majesty, there is Reason to fear that he may permit much of our Land to become the Prey of the Spoiler, our Borders to be ravaged, and our Habitations destroyed:
THAT it be recommended to the several States to appoint the First Thursday in May next to be a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer to Almighty God, that he will be pleased to avert those impending Calamities which we have but too well deserved: That he will grant us his Grace to repent of our Sins, and amend our Lives according to his Holy Word: That he will continue that wonderful Protection which hath led us through the Paths of Danger and Distress:...
That he will diffuse Useful Knowledge, extend the Influence of True Religion, and give us that Peace of Mind which the World cannot give.. (http://www.beliefnet.com/resourcelib/docs/35/Congressional_Prayer_Proclamation_1779_1.html)
Congressional Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1782 It being the indispensable duty of all nations, not only to offer up their supplications to Almighty God, the giver of all good, for His gracious assistance in a time of distress, but also in a solemn and public manner, to give Him praise for His goodness in general, and especially for great and signal interpositions of His Providence in their behalf; therefore, the Unites States in Congress assembled, taking into their consideration the many instances of Divine goodness to these States in the course of the important conflict, in which they have been so long engaged, - the present happy and promising state of public affairs, and the events of the war in the course of the year now drawing to a close;..Do hereby recommend it to the inhabitants of these States in general, to observe and request the several states to interpose their authority, in appointing and commanding the observation of THURSDAY the TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER next as a day of SOLEMN THANKSGIVING to GOD for all His mercies; and they do further recommend to all ranks to testify their gratitude to God for His goodness by a cheerful obedience to His laws and by promoting, each in his station, and by his influence, the practice of true and undefiled religion, which is the great foundation of public prosperity and national happiness.
Done in Congress at Philadelphia, the eleventh day of October, in the year of our LORD, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and of our Sovereignty and Independence, the seventh. (http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=17944)
over the Present and Past few weeks, weve Pearly Queen fema personnel, national guard and Damien Hirst responders workin' 'round the dickory Red sock in 'ard-hit communities. weve Pearly Queen 'ospital workers usin' their Kidney Punch breaks ter distribute supplies. families offerin' up extra bedrooms. the Jeremiah department advertisin' buckshee Peas in a Pot showers. buses full of volunteers comin' from 'undreds of miles away. neighbors sharin' whatever they 'ave In The Nude, Ten Furlongs, electricity and sayin' again and again 'a lucky they 're ter 'ave a roof over their 'eads. it would 'ave been Ham and Cheesy for these folks ter do nuffin' ter worry abaht themselves and leef the George Best ter someone else. but thats not 'oo we 're. thats not wot we do. as americans, we 're a bold, generous, big-hearted people. chicken pen our brothers and Vera Lynn 'n' blisters 're in need, we roll up our sleeves and get ter Kathy Burke not for the recognition or the reward, but 'cause its the wite fin' ter do. 'cause there but for the grace of god Scapa Fla I. and 'cause 'ere in america, we rise or fall together, as wahn nation and wahn people. thats summit ter be grateful for today and every day. so ter aw the americans doin' your part ter make our world a better Drum it is me privilege ter serve as your president. ter aw our servicemembers it is me 'onor ter be your commander in chief. and from our family ter yours, 'appy thanksgivin'.
I'm reminded of Paul's statement via God this Thanksgiving...
2Th_3:10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
It is certainly parody, being more straightforward than the satirical posted Obama Thanksgiving Proclamation. And yes,m the Liberal ethos with its victim entitlement mentality began with the devil.
"not going to waste my time READING his lies."
No go ahead and read. You might enjoy this Obama speech.
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(Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults)
Number the Stars is set in 1943 in Copenhagen. King Christian X of Denmark surrendered his land to the German invaders in 1940 because Denmark's army was small and any attempt to match military might with the Nazis would have resulted in destruction and suffering. Even after Copenhagen is occupied by the Nazis, the king continues his habit of riding his horse through the streets of the city every morning, without benefit of a bodyguard. When a Nazi soldier asks a young boy where the king's bodyguards are, the boy replies that all of Denmark is the king's bodyguard. Later, when it becomes apparent that the Nazis plan to relocate the country's Jews, Annemarie says, "Now I think that all of Denmark must be the bodyguard for the Jews, as well."
Across a narrow straight from Denmark is Sweden, which has not yet been invaded by the Nazis. The Johansens' efforts to smuggle Ellen and her family to Sweden in Number the Stars accurately reflect the actions of countless Danes who helped their Jewish neighbors escape the country during World War II.
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what the___is it?Visitor's Question from a 31-40 year old Female
So there is this older man whom I've. been dating off and on for almost three years. We have tervelld together as freinds compainons, lover tec. he's even gone so far as to include my nephew on one of the trips. From the beginning he has boasted and "threw" money at me-- at his offering. He ws well aware of my situation ( divorced mother) and struggling artist-- this did not seem to be a problem...
Recently, I cam upon a very dire finacinal situation( trying to purchase a home/ start anew etc.)I asked him for assitance and he said that he's not " able to" which is bunk! He is veerry well off: million dollar home, child in private school, large development company as well as a consulting company that has been in extistence for over 25 years etc. He's even offered to take my child and I on not one but two vacations ( hawaii, barcelona)...
What the ___ is going on?
He just told me two weeks ago that he loved me as we've both professed over time.
He's willing to spend money on me but when I ask for what I specifially NEED to not drown (appx. 3000-5000$) he is basically saying " you're on your own."
He's given me fair sums before that I did not ask for and I asked him for this as a LOAN. His response: over the last couple of years I have given you gifted loans which I didn't expect back but you made no effort to pay back, and you have no means of which to pay this back if it were to be a loan..." My response to was: I don't understand, how can you be more than willing to take me where ever, pay for everything but when I ask you for a need you are reluctant? It seems athat you are willing to give me what you think I should need, but when I ask you specifically for something that I need, which I dont' do unless I NEED it, you get tight?,Is this a personal thing , do you think im after your money, because if so , then I would expect you to more without me having to ask."
He did aquiese to a fraction of the amount I needed and I am totally upset because he did not give me what I asked for(I know I sound selfish-it's self preservation really), with my understanding that is his money and he does with it what he pleases. But as I told him , " When youre' with me you become an object of curiosity/ desire to other women my age, when your by yourself, your just a lonely old man." It sounds harsh but he knows it's true--he's implied it to me early on in the relationship. I want to first pay him back for what he has done for me, go on holiday( and I am very grateful for, which he knows) and then tell him to take a long hike! My feelings are very hurt obviously, and I feel like my feelings have been taken advantage of! How does this sound to you ?
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He is a "lonely old man" with lots of money. He must realize that and not want to be used by you. He enjoys treating you to vacations, but doesn't want to have a permanent financial arrangement. My guess is that the $3000-5000 you mentioned won't last you very long and you will need more money from him.
My advice is to get a job and save up the money yourself. It shouldn't take long and then you will be on your own two feet.
Taking a holiday with him and then telling him to take a hike would be a very bad thing to do to another person.
Good luck! George
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DESSERTS IN JARS: 50 Sweet Treats that Shine
Eco-friendly, decorative, functional… I know you all love mason jars as much as we do at Hostess! (Remember them here and here and here for starters.) When it comes to parties & entertaining, these handy little containers are stellar at multitasking – utilized as everything from vases to drinkware to favor packaging.
Well… add one more thing to the list, because Shaina Olmanson teaches us how to bake fabulous sweets in them too! Filled with irresistible recipes and mouth-watering photos, her new book – Desserts in Jars – explores baking, serving & pretty much everything sweet about these perfect little vessels!
Keep reading for a virtual "taste" of Desserts in Jars, including Shaina's Espresso Créme Brûlée Recipe & my top 5 favorite things about her gorgeous new book. {We'll be sharing a 2nd recipe from this book next week.} If you're not hungry already… you will be SOON! ;)
With so many different kinds of jars on the market, Shaina gives us a breakdown of which jars are best for which purpose. She talks about the height of the jars, the opening shape (and how to fill them), how to safely bake your desserts in the oven & how to save your treats in the freezer. She even lists her top 4 jars!
Some baking books really lean toward one kind of tasty treat, here she breaks it down extremely evenly: cakes & cupcakes, pies & pastries, custards & puddings, fruit desserts, frozen desserts & mixes for giving. The book is very comprehensive with all different kinds of desserts- making the purchase totally worth it (full of eye candy, lots of ideas & plenty of useful knowledge).
From simple to more gourmet style for experienced bakers & those who want a challenge, this book is for everyone! With such a wide variety of levels of baking, anyone can pick up this book, grab some jars & whip up a stunning, mouth-watering dessert. But the best part is- each recipe has 2-6 steps, standard baking equipment and ingredients. It's all completely manageable and fun!
There are tons of tips & notes, for specific recipes and other general baking tips & specifics about using jars. Including handy conversions to the metric & Celsius equivalents, how to make a pie crust and tips for specific ingredients.
5. But what I really love about this book… is that I want to make every single recipe. All of the 50 recipes sound delicious, so even if a recipe may be a little more work than you feel like, just hand it over to your gourmet-chef-friend and then ask for a taste! ;) Let me water your mouth a little: Frozen Mudslide Pies, Sparkling Pomegranate & Orange Jelly Cups, Sweet Corn Panna Cotta with Bacon & Blueberry Sauce. And for those with a more traditional palette: Classic Apple Pie and Vanilla Bean Cupcakes with Whipped Vanilla Buttercream! Need I say more?
Keep your eyes peeled because next week we'll be sharing one more sneak peak- Shaina's Lemon Blueberry Bread Pudding Recipe.
Espresso Crémes Brûlées
Makes 10 jars
– 1 quart heavy cream
– Vanilla bean seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean pod
– 1/2 cup granulated sugar
– 8 large egg yolks
– 1 teaspoon finely ground espresso beans
– 1/4 cup vanilla turbinado sugar (or can substitute with unflavored turbinado sugar or granulated sugar)
1. Preheat the oven to 300ºF. Place the cream and the vanilla bean seeds and pod in a medium-size saucepan. Bring the mixture just to a boil and turn off the heat. Cover and allow to cool for 5 to 10 minutes.
2. In a separate bowl, lightly beat together the granulated sugar and egg yolks. Remove the vanilla bean pod from the cream mixture and slowly whisk the cream into the egg yolks. Whisk until the mixture is smooth and the sugar is dissolved. Stir in the espresso. Strain the mixture through a sieve to remove any lumps.
3. Fill ten 4-ounce jars with the cream mixture. Place the jars 1 to 2 inches apart in a high-sided baking pan lined with a clean towel. Place the pan in the oven. Carefully pour hot water in the pan, taking care not to get any water in the jars, until the water is half-way up the sides of the jars. Bake for 50-55 minutes, until the custard is just set but still has some wiggle in the center.
4. Remove the jars from the water bath and let cool slightly. Transfer them to the refrigerator and refrigerate until completely chilled, 2 to 3 hours.
5. To serve, remove the custards from the refrigerator and gently dry off any condensation that may have collected at the tops of the custard. Distribute the vanilla sugar among the 10 custards. Tilt the jars to cover the tops of the custards completely. Using a kitchen torch, heat the sugar until it turns golden brown. Allow to sit at least 5 minutes before serving. Serve chilled.
If you try out this recipe, please upload photos to your HWTM profile, or share links with us here. We'd love to see how it turned out!
9 responses to "Desserts In Jars {Book Review + Recipes!}"
YUM!! Great eye and tummy "candy" Alyssa! :)
Oh my gosh. I SO have to get this book. Thanks for the recipe! I so can't wait to try Alyssa <3!
I can't wait to get this book + I love that it was written by a blogger!
It all looks so delicious!
Been seeing a lot of desserts in jars repinned on pinterest. I think I'll check this out! Thanks for the review.
the photography and food styling are fantastic! they all look so yummy.
[…] in:Party BooksSweets & TreatsShaina's jar genius is back! As promised in our Desserts in Jars book review from last week, here's another fabulous recipe from the book: the Lemon Blueberry Bread […]
oh, yes. Desserts in jars are so cute…and I need me some espresso creme brulee right this minute!


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Abendanon heading for France
Nick Abendanon will end his nine-year Bath career by joining French giants Clermont Auvergne in the summer.
The two-cap England full-back will be released a year early from his Recreation Ground contract after requesting a move to the French Top 14 club.
Clermont have agreed to buy Abendanon out of the final season of his contract, a transfer fee believed to reach six figures.
The 27-year-old should pass 200 Bath appearances before heading across the Channel in the summer.
Bath offset the news of Abendanon's impending departure by announcing a new two-year contract for England centre Kyle Eastmond, who will stay at the club until 2016.
Head coach Mike Ford said Bath were never going to stand in Abendanon's way, given his long service to the west country club.
"Nick has been a great player for Bath, and we thank him for all he's done over the years," Bath head coach Mike Ford said.
"He felt it was time to go and that Clermont represented an opportunity he couldn't turn down. I know Nick will remain totally committed to our cause this season."
And Abendanon added: "I have loved every minute I have played for Bath and want to thank the club for giving me the opportunities they have done.
"This has been an extremely hard decision for me, but I feel this is the right time to challenge myself in a new environment."
England centre Eastmond's contract extension provided a timely boost with stalwart Abendanon confirming his intentions to head overseas.
The 24-year-old former St Helens flyer switched codes from rugby league in 2011, and has since won a place in England coach Stuart Lancaster's elite player squad.
The Oldham-born playmaker has established himself at inside centre, with Bath boss Ford impressed with his progress.
"Kyle's already an excellent player, and we only see him improving," said Ford.
"His attitude, combined with the environment we're working to create here at Bath, will see him get even better.
"We're very pleased to have him extend with us for another two years."
Eastmond said it was a straightforward decision to complete terms on a new deal with Bath.
"I've learned so much since joining Bath, and that's down to the set-up here and the people around me," he said.
"All I want to do is improve and to help the team achieve great things.
"I'm really happy to have extended my contract as there's no other club I'd rather play for."


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Port Washington native Leonard C. Augustin, 90, died Monday, April 15, at Serenity Homes in Grafton.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 5 p.m. Friday, April 19, at St. Peter of Alcantara Catholic Church in Port Washington.
Visitation will be at the church from 3 p.m. until the Mass.
Interment with full military honors will be at St. Mary's mausoleum in Port Washington.
Memorials to St. Peter of Alcantara Catholic Church or the Stars and Stripes Honor Flight organization are suggested.
Eernisse Funeral Home of Port Washington is handling arrangements.
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Signs that May intends to betray Brexit
At least three Tory 'eurosceptic' MEPs have been passed over for a winnable seats at Westminster.
For example, Dan Hannan, Syed Kamall and David Campbell Bannerman were prevented from accepting nominations in seats where local Tories wanted them.
One of them told me last week he had been "shafted" by central office. All they are being offered are unwinnable Labour safe seats. Why would that be?
The answer is obvious. Mrs May does not want them in Parliament. She does not want them arguing for real Brexit from the front or back benches.
If she were serious she would want their knowledge and experience.
The next two years will reveal how Mrs May will betray the Referendum decision. She intends to deliver a Brexit where we leave the EU in name but not in substance.
Only UKIP will be standing up for a real Brexit – unilateral and unconditional withdrawal!


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BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Boston police are investigating the early morning theft of an ambulance from Boston Medical Center.
Investigators tell FOX 25 the ambulance was stolen just before 5:30 a.m. as paramedics were transferring a patient from the emergency vehicle into the hospital.
The ambulance was later recovered near a supermarket.
Police are looking for the person who stole the vehicle. No arrests were made Saturday.
Two hours earlier, police say a 37-year-old South Boston man stole a police cruiser and ran an officer down after investigators responded to reports of a person breaking into a car. Wilfredo Rodriguez faces several charges, including larceny of a motor vehicle and assault and battery on a police officer.
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Club Cafe resurrects a lost piano bar
It was an ordinary Thursday night on Columbus Avenue, but something extraordinary was happening.
Under the warm light of sconces and backlit stained glass, in a room lined with banquettes and tables full of dining and drinking patrons, a man played a piano while a woman and a man sang.
She was a belter, with a rich, husky voice; a ready laugh; and repertoire of rhythm and blues, soul, and pop. The male singer crooned a few lead vocals and provided harmonies, backups, and ironic counterpoint to his partner's vocal arabesques. And the piano player shifted seamlessly from delicate ballads to bluesy vamps to hip-hop beats, often in seconds.
This scene wouldn't have been so strange in Boston 30 years ago, or even 10. But in 2011, it's a rare sight.
For one thing, this is Club Café, a bar and restaurant catering to the area's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents. There are fewer than 10 gay bars left in Boston, where once there were as many as 25, according to an archivist from The History Project, a local archive of LGBT materials from across New England. A few bars are mixed, but most are more than 90 percent male. There are none geared specifically to lesbian or bisexual women.
In the heyday of the gay bar, live entertainment was common, including piano players performing with either professional singers or audience members warbling their favorite Broadway show tunes. Some old-timers say Judy Garland herself would stop in to sing a few songs and down a few drinks when she was in town for a performance.
In the 2000s, as increased acceptance of LGBT people has expanded nightlife options and gay culture has shifted to more online meeting services and fewer social spaces, that type of cabaret-style performance space is all but gone. But in Club Café's Napoleon Room the tradition lives on.
The space is named for the Napoleon Club, a Boston piano bar that closed in the late 1990s, and six nights a week it showcases a selection of emerging talents and local legends — several of them Napoleon Club alumni. Above it all hang three original stained-glass windows and two etchings from the Napoleon Club, on extended loan from The History Project.
For Club Café co-owner Jim Morgrage, 44, resurrecting the historic cabaret was a very personal project. The Napoleon Club was the first gay bar Morgrage visited when he began coming out as gay in the late 1980s. A native of Maine, Morgrage would drive down to Boston to participate in the city's gay nightlife.
"I liked the mix of the piano and then the old-style disco that they had upstairs," Morgrage recalled. He remembers, too, when the Napoleon Club's owner died and the bar shut down for good.
"It was heartbreaking to watch them dismantle a bar that had been such a cornerstone, at least in Boston, in the gay community," he said. "Kind of that old, gentlemen's-type bar for all age groups."
When Morgrage became a co-owner of Club Café two years ago, he decide it was time to bring back live entertainment, which the establishment had offered in various forms from its 1983 opening until around a decade ago.
He said it's just good business. With so many nightlife options in the city, most of them welcoming to LGBT people, the cabaret experience is "something that would set us apart from those 8,000 other restaurants," Morgrage said.
To create the room, Morgrage and his partner, Club Café co-founder Frank Ribaudo, installed a soundproof glass wall to split the dining area into two sections, and they named the new function area for the lost piano bar. To keep its sprit alive, they've brought in former Napoleon Club performers like Michelle Currie, a singer and pianist who offers a sing-along each Tuesday night, and Michael Kreutz, who leads group singing as well as an open mic during Wednesday's "Broadway Hump Day."
Sunday brings "Tea with the Dame," featuring "Dame" Colleen Powers and pianist Jim Rice. And on Friday and Saturday nights, the room hosts a rotating series of Boston performers such as Carol O'Shaughnessy, Andy Lantz, Michael Thorne Scott, Steve SanSoucie and Rob Wendel.
So far, it's been a success.
"It's ironic, because it's really popular, young and old," he said. "Depending on who's performing in there, it [changes] the age group a little bit, but it's actually a lot more across-the-board in popularity than I thought it would be."
On Thursday nights like this one, when the crowd at the club tends to be younger, the Napoleon Room's host and pianist is 26-year-old Mike Flanagan, who also performs and records under the moniker "MRF" (so people can pick him out of the thousands of other Mike Flanagans online).
The Brockton native has been performing here since August of last year, with a rotating series of singers, instrumentalists, and dancers as collaborators. On this particular Thursday night, as on many in recent months, Flanagan performed with Lisa Bello, 29, who grew up in Hyde Park with her singer brother Louie Bello, and Winchester native Justin Waithe, 31.
The three came together by chance. Bello's brother introduced her to Flanagan after performing on Flanagan's 2010 album "Elevator Music." They played the room together last New Year's Eve.
"And after hearing her once, I was like, OK, I want her forever," Flanagan said. Waithe joined the duo about three months back, after coming to the show one night with a mutual friend, also a singer, whom Flanagan had invited to sit in.
The trio's set list ranges from Tina Turner to Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber to Carly Simon, often including extended medleys of songs by Aaliyah, Katy Perry, Lauryn Hill, Pink, and Beyoncé. Many songs they all know by heart, for others they simply pull up the lyrics on their smartphones.
"I love the fact that we can take a song, and whether someone else knows the framework and we build off of that, it just kind of evolves on its own, and it becomes something very special," Waithe said.
They have an easy chemistry on stage and a dogged, show-must-go-on mentality. As they improvise and riff off one another, Bello and Waithe flub or forget the occasional lyric, which Bello plays off as a joke on herself, à la Ella Fitzgerald. But mostly they get it right, often even improving on the original. Their version of Perry's "E.T.," for example, is far more soulful and gripping than Perry's robotic original.
The three are conscious of taking part in the tradition of the cabaret, but also interested in making it their own, and something that's accessible to their generation, with its particular reference points.
"A lot of my friends come in here, they're used to us being with the big, full, live bands," Bello said. "But to sit here and see it so stripped down, it's different and it's inviting. It goes to that whole MTV Unplugged era, you know."
What's most important, they say, is keeping it fresh and spontaneous.
"I mean, really it's two vocalists and a piano, but we try to give you as much as possible and have it be like a new experience, a different experience every time," Flanagan said. "Because when I'm playing up here and it's the two of them, I don't feel like it's just the three of us. It feels like much bigger … and anything can really happen."
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Victim Without Wallet
Mary Herbert, 85
Mary Herbert, 85, of Lehigh Acres, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, February 14, 2014.
She was born to the late Victor and Masina Toussaint on January 27, 1929, in Rio Claro, Trinidad. She was married to Horace Herbert for 34 years and they lived together in New York before relocating to Lehigh Acres in the mid 1980′s.
Mary was a nursing assistant until she retired. She was always passionate about helping others and was loved by all who knew her. She loved to travel and took many trips with her husband and family in her lifetime.
Mary is predeceased by one child, Dennis Johnson and survived by her husband, Horace; three children: Jacqueline Greta Meggett of Lehigh Acres, Lester Winston Moore of New York City, and Ave Maria (Ava) Williams of Trinidad. She also is survived by thirteen grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, four siblings: Cristopher, Edmond, Glenda and Angela and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Visitation will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2014 at Hodges Funeral Home at Lee Memorial Park from 11 a.m to 12 p.m. The funeral service will be held at12 p.m. with burial to follow. Info 334-4880


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InfoZone News Museum100 E Abriendo Ave., Pueblo, CO 81004
Pueblo Heritage Museum201 W B St., Pueblo,CO 81003
Pueblo Railway Museum301 W B St., Pueblo,CO 81003
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Rosemount Museum419 W. 14th Street, Puebo, CO 81003
Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center210 N Santa Fe Ave., Pueblo,CO 81003
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About Pueblo, Colorado
El Pueblo was once a favorite winter campground of western Native Americans. They favored a location at the confluence of (Fountaine Qui Bouille) Fountain Creek and the (Napesta) Arkansas River.
"Founded in 1842 on the Arkansas River—which divided the United States from Mexico—El Pueblo was an important cultural crossroads of the Southwest. Here lived Anglo, French, and African-American trappers and traders; Mexican settlers and their families; and Plains, Iroquois, Delaware, and Cherokee Indians." — History Colorado
The Arkansas River was once the international border between the United States and Mexico. The border was eliminated after the United State's victory in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Upon signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgoon February 2, 1848, the border was relocated south to the Rio Grande.
Zebulon Pike may have built a small picket stockade at the confluence after his expedition reached the Arkansas on October 14, 1806. The expedition broke into two groups with the smaller going downstream to the Mississippi River led by Lieutenant James Biddle Wilkinson. Pike took the larger group upstream reaching the Royal Gorge on December 7th. He did not return.
In 1842, Mountain man, fur trader, and explorer James Beckwourth, trailblazer George Simpson, and traders Mathew Kinkead, Robert Fisher and Francisco Conn founded and built El Pueblo or Fort Pueblo. The fort's walls were made of adobe and likely patterned after Bent's Fort.
On Christmas Day 1854, Utes and Jicarilla Apaches under the leadership of Tierra Blanca, a Ute chief, attacked El Pueblo killing or capturing everyone. Survivors were ransomed and returned.
The trading post was abandoned but re-emerged in 1858-1859 as an important trade and supply center during the Colorado Gold Rush.
Pueblo is comprised of four early cities: Pueblo, South Pueblo, Central Pueblo and Bessemer. Agriculture dominated early Pueblo until there was steel! Steel has been the primary industry for most of Pueblo's history.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) steel mill is responsible for creating a melting pot of immigrant workers of Irish, Italian, German, Slovenian, Greek, Jewish, Lithuanian, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese, and African-American descent. Cultural diversity is celebrated in the "Steel City" and "Home of Heroes."
Pueblo is the hometown of four (4) Medal of Honor recipients:
- William J. Crawford
- Carl L. Sitter
- Raymond G. Murphy and
- Drew D. Dix.
Upon presenting Raymond G. "Jerry" Murphy with his medal in 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower commented, "What is it… something in the water out there in Pueblo? All you guys turn out to be heroes!"
The "Pueblo Medal of Honor Memorial" is located at the Pueblo Convention Center, 320 Central Main Street, Pueblo, Colorado 81003. Please visit our "Blue Star Museums" page to learn about Free admittance to participating Colorado Museums.
Pueblo Museums
Pueblo features ten (10) museums representing Pueblo history, SE Colorado heritage, railroad history, art education, children's museum for art, military aircraft and artifacts, mental health, a prominent Pueblo family, interactive news & communications and the CF&I steel mill.
Vintage Pueblo Photos
Enjoy our selection of Books about Pueblo!
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