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We had a wonderful weekend on our camping trip back at Normandy Farms. Friday we celebrated Daddy's 40th birthday in camping style with a roaring campfire, a steak dinner and squares of our favourite carrot cake from Konditor Meister. Having a whole cake would have been much too tempting to have around!!!
As we were relaxing by the fire a young park ranger pulled up. At first we were concerned our fire was roaring just a little too much! Instead the obviously embarrassed ranger awkwardly stumbled over with a bouquet of balloons and a birthday greeting for Daddy. We were surprised since the Little Professor had only mentioned Daddy's 40th in passing, while we were buying ketchup at the camp store the day before. They had taken note of it and sent the balloons!
It was a wonderful way to celebrate a 40th birthday, however the weekend was not without incidences.
Mishap #1 – The Princess decided it would be fun to stick a rubber band down the heating vent, which happens to be screwed on. With the very low temperatures during the night we knew we'd be cranking the heat and weren't particularly fond of the thought of burnt rubber smell wafting through the trailer. It made us realize we need to put together a small tool kit to bring with us and thus the list of "Things We Need for the Trailer" began. As it turned out Daddy had a Swiss Army Tool of sorts and it had the screw driver head that was needed. Thank goodness for the small things that just happen to come in handy when you least expect it! Daddy and the Princess worked together to remove the heating vent cover and retrieve the rubber band, only to watch the Milk Monkey baby puke into it later on in the day! Ewww! Another smell we wanted to avoid heating! Don't worry I won't show you a picture of that!!
Mishap #2 – Saturday morning we woke up to find that something had gotten into our garbage. You'd think we would have known that leaving the garbage out overnight is just asking for a critter to come rummage through it. I am absolutely convinced that if we had been camping in a tent we would never have made such a rookie mistake. Being in the trailer has given us a sense of safety from all animals and the thought of ridding our site from any food, even the tossed kind didn't even occur to us. I'm not sure what our excuse was for leaving it out the following night also! <- Not proud of that moment at all!
Mishap #3 – Of all the little things that went wrong, nothing compared to what we were greeted with Sunday morning. The thought of it brought to reality that we are so very blessed to have God's protection. Each night we brought everything close to the trailer to keep under the awning in case of rain. We ended up leaning a chair against something that has to do with the heater – I'm still not exactly sure what it is, but I think it might be where the pilot light is for the propane furnace. It looks like this…
and it did this to the chair….
Thank goodness that's all it did! We definitely won't be leaning anything else against that in the future!
Aside from all the various mishaps, we had a blast! Another amazing weekend to remember for a long, long time!!


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Serves 4
This is a delicious one pot dinner. I always keep a tub of harissa paste in my refrigerator. It makes preparing a quick meal a breeze. I sometimes serve the feta, pine nuts, chopped coriander and lemon on the side. If you are trying to encourage your family to try new flavours then this is a great way of doing so. My kids refer to the extras as sprinkles and are more excited to try out a dish when they have added some toppings.
600g chicken fillet, sliced
62,5ml oil
1 cinnamon stick
1 bay leaf
1 medium onion, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
50ml harissa paste
4 cups cooked Spekko long grain parboiled rice
100g feta
50ml pine nuts, toasted
Salt to taste
Fresh coriander, chopped
1 lemon, cut into wedges – optional
Icing sugar to dust lemons
Heat oil in a pot on medium heat. Add cinnamon stick and bay leaf. Fry for 5 seconds until the spices are fragrant and a shade darker. Add onion and sauté until golden brown. Stir in the harissa paste and crushed garlic. Fry the onion paste for a second or two and then add in sliced chicken fillet and salt. Stir fry until the chicken is cooked. If the mixture begins to stick, add 62,5ml boiling water. Remove from heat. Heat up a non stick frying pan. Dust lemon wedges with icing sugar. Place lemon wedges on the frying pan and allow the sugar to caramelize. Remove from non stick frying pan. Layer the cooked Spekko Long Grain Parboiled Rice over the cooked chicken. Pour over 125ml boiling water and cook on a very low heat. The rice should steam gently and be thoroughly heated before serving. Check to ensure the chicken does not stick and burn. Remove from heat and sprinkle feta, toasted pine nuts over the pulao. Serve with caramelized lemon wedges.
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Yudhika's Tips:
– Harissa paste has salt so please check the seasoning before adding more salt.
– Always use cold rice when making a pulao. This prevents the rice from becoming sticky.
– Use toasted flaked almonds instead of pine nuts.
– Use Spekko Pure Basmati Rice for a fragrant pulao.


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The Obama campaign asked a federal judge on Monday to enforce his ruling on early voting in Ohio and compel the state to allow voters there to cast ballots three days before election day. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted requested a stay of the ruling until an appeals court ruled on U.S. District Judge Peter Economus' decision.
Obama's campaign said in a court filing Monday that due to Husted's "inconsistent and changing positions in this case on the voters eligible to vote over this three-day period, the State bears the responsibility for any confusion among voters that may have occurred." The Obama team said neither Husted nor the 15 military groups appealing the ruling would suffer any harm if county elections boards were allowed to prepare to keep the polls open during that three day period. Granting a stay, on the other hand, "would present real risks of harm to the public interest and to the parties interested in this proceeding," the Obama campaign said.


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Rapper Tehn Diamond is one of the few musicians across the world who dropped the first singles of 2016 on January 1. And unlike other artistes who always hide behind challenges, Tehn Diamond kept the promise he made to release a new single "Bho Tsano" which features Simba Tagz. In this latest single, the rapper exhibits his ever growing ability to assemble seamless flows in different languages.
Tehn Diamond has three mixtapes to his name and is in the middle of recording his first official commercial release "The Perfect Tehn" EP, set to be dropped in the first quarter of this year.
In a statement Tehn Diamond said he decided to release the single as a way of building momentum and setting the pace for 2016. "Bho Tsano" is taken from a project called "A Few Good Poems".
"Bho Tsano' is the first single off my next project called a 'Few Good Poems'. It is basically about me dusting off the cob webs and setting the tone for the next chapter in Zim Hip Hop.
"I don't want to say too much. I would like the music to speak for itself and hopefully fly. It's been almost two years since I released a single, so 'Bho Tsano' is about timing," said Tehn Diamond.
Tehn Diamond is an award winning Zimbabwean rapper, who hogged the musical limelight in 2012 when his hit song "Happy" was played on regional stations. He has since toured regionally, appeared in SA's HYPE magazine, and headlined Africa's biggest reality eviction show "Big Brother Africa".


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The San Francisco Giants are impressed with their new catcher.
A.J. Pierzynski homered, tripled and drove in two runs to help San Francisco defeat the Oakland Athletics 8-5 Friday in a split-squad game.
Pierzynski, acquired from Minnesota in an offseason trade, finished a double shy of the cycle. He led off the second inning with a home run, his first, against loser Tim Hudson, singled in the fourth and tripled home a run in the sixth.
"He's swinging the bat well right now; he's hot," Giants manager Felipe Alou said. "We expected to see that. It was a matter of time."
Pierzynski struck out against Chad Bradford, making his first appearance of the spring, in the seventh.
"I'll make a lot better pitch to Pierzynski next time," Hudson said. "I got the ball in but he got his hands on it. He hit a pretty good pitch for the home run."
Hudson allowed six runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings with no walks and five strikeouts.
"Obviously, the results weren't what I would have liked but I felt good with everything else," Hudson said. "I made some really good pitches."
Jason Ellison also drove in two runs for the Giants, who had not won in their previous four games.
Neifi Perez had two hits and an RBI, and Marquis Grissom also knocked in a run.
"It was nice to hit a guy like udson) any time," Alou said. "Even if it was a softball game. He's tough."
Bobby Kielty hit a two-run homer and Eric Karros had a solo shot for the A's.
Brian Cooper got the win after giving up two runs on four hits in three innings. He walked two and struck out one.
Matt Herges allowed his first hit of the spring but still pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save. Herges has yet to allow a run in eight innings.
Notes: Giants LHP Scott Eyre injured his hip while pitching in the eighth inning. He completed the inning before leaving the game. "Coming off the mound he was in real pain," Alou said. "He fell off the mound awkwardly on one pitch." ... Oakland OF Nick Swisher, who drove in a run, was reassigned to minor league camp.
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Flipped Classes and Campus Tours
Why undergraduate campus tour guides are starting to talk about learning technology.
Last week we accompanied our high school daughter (a junior) on her big college visit week. Eight schools in six days. Lots to process.
By far, the most important aspect of every campus visit in determining if a given school makes "the list" is the campus tour.
Admissions departments of America. You may think that all those brochures that you send to high school juniors has an impact. I'm not so sure. The campus information sessions? Not so much.
What really matters is the quality of the campus tour.
And that means that much is riding on the quality of the campus tour guide.
If any of you are worried about the future of the Republic should spend some quality time (usually about an hour) with a campus tour guide. You would immediately stop worrying, and begin to question your own communication skills and accomplishments.
A representative campus tour guide biography: "Hi, I'm Erica. I'm a biology, economics, and dance triple major. In addition to my academics, I play varsity soccer, sing is 2 a cappella groups, participate in the campus improv theater group, helped found the quidditch club, and in my spare time I tutor underprivileged youths".
How much does learning technology make it into the campus tour?
The news here is mixed.
As you may fear, our obsession with learning technology does not quite seem to be shared by even the best campus tour guides.
Every campus tour guide talks about 3 things: a) How great the professors are. b) How great the dorms are. c) How great the food is.
If we were going to gauge the quality of our postsecondary institutions by the judgments of our campus tour guides than our self-images would be immeasurably improved.
Bizarrely, every undergraduate tour guide will still mention the number of books that the library possesses - as well as that marvelous invention - interlibrary loan. (Although none of the tour guides appear to have had the need to avail themselves of that particular service).
What is seldom talked about by the campus tour guide is what every learning technologist Dad wants to hear about - learning technology.
We never heard what learning management system (LMS) the school uses.
The brand of the student information system (SIS) never seemed to come up.
We only once heard about lecture capture.
What we did hear about was flipped classes. (Music to my ears).
Unbidden by prompting from any geeky educational technology parents who may have happened to be on the campus tour, a couple of campus tour guides did mention how "awesome" these new flipped classes are.
They did not always use the lingo, but they described how in some of their larger classes the professor records the lecture ahead of time, and then the normal classroom lecture time is spent discussing the material and "doing stuff".
Flipped classes were almost always talked about in the context of how great it is when a professor can spend individual time with students. How having access to online lecture material enables more classroom time to be spent going over difficult topics. How having the teaching materials online can make even larger introductory classes feel like smaller classes, as the professor is free to roam around and work with groups or individual students on the work being done during the class session.
One campus tour guide talked about how he felt that he could learn much better from a professor who knew him as an individual. He talked about how getting to know his professors, and having his professors get to know him, has been the best part of college.
I predict that we will see descriptions about flipped classes make it into the campus tour guide pantheon of talking points.
I predict that a standard campus tour guide stump speech (while walking backwards) will begin to include how great it is how the school is reinventing the lecture class. How lecture classes used to be about listening and taking notes, and now with so much of the teaching available online that lecture classes are opportunities to work closely with faculty and other students on difficult problems.
I predict that campus tour guides will start to talk more about technology, but only to the extent that they are talking about how technology creates new opportunities to get to better know faculty.
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The behavior of NSA and the British counterpart GCHQ gets more bizarre every day.
David Miranda, the partner of Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, was detained as he was passing through Heathrow airport this past weekend on his way back from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. He was held for nine hours under schedule 7 of the UK's terror laws, which give enormous discretion to stop, search and question people. There is no need that these people actually have connections with "terror", as ordinarily understood. Suspects have no right to legal representation and may have their property confiscated for up to seven days. Under penalty they even cannot refuse to cooperate.
Then there is this report, that some (not so) friendly gentlemen from GCHQ showed up at the Guardian, and demanded the destruction of computer hard drives supposedly containing material about the NSA leaked by Edward Snowden.
Folks, it is not about national security anymore or about the fight against terrorism. It is about freedom of press, an essential part of democracy. That is, it is about democracy.
Don't think it is much better in the U.S. There is freedom of speech (not freedom of press) in the constitution, but it doesn't mean you can say anything you want. Besides that you can't yell "fire" in a movie theater when there is none, there have been rulings that people who have at some time worked for the government, are prohibited to talk about things related to "national security", whatever this means. This is sanctioned by the U.S. supreme court, which we thought is really to upheld the U.S. constitution.
Even President Obama, in his most recent press conference, stressed that his first priority as commander in chief it to protect American citizens. We don't remember saying him anything about the U.S. constitution.
He said something about "trust" in the government. Well. can we really trust anything that he or his government (or the British government) is saying?
Can you believe the listening of the NSA into phone conversations over a thousand times was an accident?
Can you believe Obama initiated a review about NSA practices even before the Snowden leaks became public?
Can you believe the proposed no-spy agreement between the U.S and Germany (or NSA and BND?) would change anything whatsoever?
So, the hard drives at the Guardian were destroyed "just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents"
Now why would that be? There is a good chance that the Chinese know already, and the Snowden files would not add anything to what they already know.
It is actually worse. There are indications that the NSA has outsourced computer spying to China, because "they are good at this", and the lack of computer science knowledge within the American population due to spending cuts in the education system.
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* Obama meets with immigration reform advocates, CEOs
* CEO want chance to reform laws for good of economy
* Details of guest worker program still an issue
By Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Immigration reform advocates urged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to reject congressional proposals that would delay a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants by making changes contingent on stepped-up border security.
After meeting Obama at the White House, the activists said they had pressed the Democratic president to ensure that reforms provide an unambiguous route to citizenship for the estimated 11 million people in the United States illegally.
"He's not going to accept a vague path to citizenship," said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Rata, an Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization. She stopped short of saying that Obama had explicitly rejected linking reforms to increased border security.
The groups said they were "aligned" with Obama's plan on immigration, outlined in a speech in Las Vegas last week.
That plan would give illegal immigrants a clear process to achieve citizenship, including payment of fines, criminal background checks and going to the "back of the line" behind legal applicants.
Obama has vowed to introduce his own bill if Congress fails to act in a timely fashion. Republicans want to defer citizenship until the country's borders are more secure, especially the frontier with Mexico.
A group of Democratic and Republican senators is drafting a bill that could include such a trigger.
"We expect there to be language around the trigger, but it can't be a false trigger," Murguia said. "It can't be a trigger that keeps moving the goal posts and is indefinable. So it has to be meaningful, real and tangible for us to accept it."
The White House said Obama has already addressed most border security goals sought by Republicans, said spokesman Jay Carney, who added that the president would wait until senators draft a bill before judging any proposed trigger.
The immigration reform groups vowed they would make their opinions heard in Congress, and noted that the Latino electorate overwhelmingly backed Obama in the Nov. 6 presidential election and are counting on quick action on the issue.
"Our community feels momentum and our collective power," said Marie Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives held its first hearing on the issue on Tuesday and questioned the idea of providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Obama met separately on immigration reform with chief executives from 12 companies, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc's Lloyd Blankfein, Yahoo Inc's Marissa Mayer and Klaus Kleinfeld of Alcoa Inc.
The executives see immigration reform as good for the economy, said Arne Sorenson of Marriott International Inc .
"It's clear that immigration reform is an opportunity that really arises out of this last election," he told reporters. "It would be great to see the political leaders from both sides seize that opportunity, grab it, and pass something which is comprehensive."
Senators have also proposed an improved guest worker program, a major issue for the agricultural industry, which counts on migrant workers to pick crops, and for labor groups, which have opposed such proposals.
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. federation of trade unions, told reporters the group discussed a "data-driven system" for guest workers.
"We can fix what's wrong right now and prevent what's wrong from driving down the wages of everybody else," Trumka said.
Details of a new guest worker program must still be worked out, bu labor unions are eager to help shape a program to benefit their members, said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, an advocacy group immigration reform.
"The good news is that labor is united and wanting immigration reform. That was not the case a few years ago," Sharry said.


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Dee, Snakehandlers already cookin' in new year
Updated 3:17 pm, Wednesday, January 4, 2012
2012 is starting with interesting musical events: a song-powered cookbook release, a provocative singer-songwriter and a jazz-CD release. Get busy.
Ruby Dee cooks
Ruby Dee Philippa, Ruby Dee, is known in the honky-tonk music whirl as the leader of the twanging and rollicking roots rock-meets-roots country band the Snakehandlers. The well-traveled Dee, a former West Coast restaurant owner based in Austin, also knows her way around the kitchen.
She'll bring dancers, listeners, cooks and foodies together Friday night at 9 at John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes. Dee and the Snakehandlers will put a cool spin on the book-signing experience by playing a free gig that'll double as a release party for her new "Ruby's Juke Joint Americana Cookbook."
The book features recipes from across the country, smoked salmon, barbecue, chowder, stuffed pork chops and even some vegetarian and vegan offerings. If that's not enough to entice you, "Ruby's Juke Joint Americana Cookbook" comes with a CD that includes songs from Marti Brom, The Modern Don Juans, Elizabeth McQueen, Rick Broussard's Two Hoots and a Holler and others.
And rest assured Dee and the Snakehandlers will get people moving with songs such as "Alcohol of Fame," "Don't Need a Man" and "Round and Round." Don't forget your dancing shoes or your appetites.
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Jean's genius
Saturday's Urban Campfires show features common sense character Jean Synodinos (sin-uh-DEE-nus), a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who balances humor with grit, pop with jazz, blues with folk. A first-class lyricist who delivers those words with an expressive, bell-clear voice, Synodinos can confound those who demand easy genre classification and delight those who love eclecticism in music.
Synodinos is working with a new CD, "Girls, Good & Otherwise," an album she offered for weeks last year as a free download. The songs range from the thought-provoking "Five Things To Do Today" (penned with her husband, guitarist/producer Charles Reiser) to the rather spooky "Knife." Synodinos makes music that isn't easy to categorize, but easily captivates those who pay attention. The show starts at 7 p.m. at Lions Field Activity Center, 2809 Broadway. Reservations, 210-824-1068
Bari jazz
There'll be double-barreled jazz action at Olmos Bharmacy on Monday. From 7-8:30 p.m. it'll be release party time for "Sweet Serendipity," a CD featuring the baritone sax work of Martin Schwacha backed by Small World, Polly Harrison (guitar), Kyle Keener (drums) and, on bass, Will Kelly. The weekly Small World jazz jam will follow. It's all free.
New Jersey-born Schwacha, a sax player since the fourth grade, studied at the University of Rhode Island and played blues and jazz up and down the East Coast. In 2008, the bari master relocated to San Antonio. He quickly became active on the scene, playing the Bharmacy jam sessions and working with local big bands.
The idea for recording "Sweet Serendipity" came during the Bharmacy jam sessions. The 10 tracks on the disc, all Schwacha originals, showcase the sax man's chops and range. Backed by the masterful rhythm section, Schwacha moves from the bossa nova of the title track to the bop of "Dauphin Island," "Funky Bebop" and blues, the up-tempo "Down at Patty Lou's (an ode to the former Bharmacy kitchen honcho), the ballad "Whenever You Ask" and the disc-closer, the blues "New York System," also known as "Ode to a Hot Dog." It's sweet indeed.
Jim Beal Jr.'s Night Lights covers the area music scene. He also plays bass in the local band Miss Neesie & the Ear Food Orchestra. Send email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Beal is the host of the "Third Coast Music Network" show from 3-7 p.m. Thursdays on KSYM, 90.1 FM. Check the Music Beat blog at mySA.com; @jimbealjr on Twitter.


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The Colorado Legislature on Friday did what lawmakers in Olympia didn't have the guts to do earlier this week, passing a law that expands criminal background checks to embrace not only retail sales in stores but gun show and private sales of firearms.
The legislation goes to Gov. John Hickenlooper, who urged its passage and has promised to sign it into law.
The background check bill cleared the Colorado Senate on Friday over opposition from every Republican in the chamber. The legislature earlier approved a 15-round limit to ammunition magazines, which Hickenlooper has also pledged to sign.
The man who allegedly murdered 12 moviegoers in an Aurora, Colo., theater last summer, John Eagan Holmes, had in his arsenal an AR-15 assault rifle with a 100-round drum magazine. A federal limit to high-capacity magazines ran out in 2004 and was not renewed.
Support for universal background checks has run as high as 90 percent in national polls. It has registered positively with more than three-quarters of those surveyed in gun-owning households. But the National Rifle Association, which once backed background checks, has drawn a bead on the proposal.
Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president, played the fear card as he denounced the proposal in a fiery speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "A check that will always be far from universal will never make our schools or streets safer and will only serve as universal regulation of lawful gun owners — the real goal they've been pushing for decades," said LaPierre.
Colorado state Rep. Beth McCann, sponsor of the background-check bill, said it is not a panacea but a positive step. "Are we going to stop all criminals from getting guns? No," said McCann. "But we are going to put a barrier there, make it more difficult for them."
Despite the Aurora killings, and the 1992 mass murders at Columbine High School not far away, Gov. Hickenlooper has acknowledged the risk in challenging the gun lobby and the gun manufacturers who fund it. "I know this is controversial and I'm going to catch a lot of heat for this," he said when coming out for the background-check and ammunition-clip bills.
Vice President Joe Biden tweeted his praise for Colorado lawmakers' actions, saying, "Congratulations to Colorado House and Senate for passing universal background checks," and in a second tweet: "The families of Aurora deserved a vote and got one. Now U.S. Congress must act."
The bill passed Friday requires a $10 criminal background check to legally transfer a gun. The lawmakers did allow for the loan of a gun for up to 72 hours without a check.
Opposing the legislation, Republican state Sen. Greg Brophy declared: "It won't help anything, but it makes common everyday actions among friends and neighbors something that's now illegal in the state of Colorado."
Background-check legislation expired in the Democratic-controlled Washington House of Representatives earlier this week, two short of the 50 votes it needed for passage. The state Senate, controlled by a Republican-dominated coalition, has not acted on the legislation.


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Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday said that he was misquoted on a comment about Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi adding that he will not apologise.india Updated: Jan 17, 2014 16:37 IST
Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday said that he was misquoted on a comment about Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi adding that he will not apologise.
"I promise you in the 21st century Narendra Modi will never become the prime minister of the country. But if he wants to distribute tea here, we will find a place for him," Aiyar had said at the All India Congress Committee meeting in New Delhi.
Later he refused to apologise and also blasted the media for twisting his words.
"It is Modi who keeps bringing to the fore his background of being a tea stall owner while making a pitch to the people of India for the elections. Therefore, I just said that Modi will never be the Prime Minister of India, but if he wants, we can set up a tea stall for him here," Aiyar told CNN IBN.
"Modi has demonstrated that he doesn't know our history, our Constitution and our laws. He has a development model that is not inclusive of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe and minorities," he added.
He was criticised by Congress ally and Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah for mocking Modi's 'humble' origins on Twitter.
"Modi has a lot of negatives but his humble origins are a positive some of us can't claim. We aren't helping our campaign by mocking him," posted Abdullah.
Modi had referred to his humble origins while targeting the Gandhi family during an election rally in Patna last year.
Modi had said that people who are ruling at the Centre "don't know what poverty is all about, but I know about it." He had said that he was born in a poor family and has seen and lived in poverty.
"I have sold tea at the railway station and in running trains... those who sell tea in trains know more about railways than the minister," Modi had said.
When he was six years old, Modi helped his father sell tea to passengers whenever an odd train came into the small Vadnagar station in Gujarat, according to a book The anatomy of Narendra Modi -- The man and his politics by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
His background was also commented upon by Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agarwal who had said that that a person who used to sell tea cannot have a national perspective.
"Narendra Modi wants to become a PM. Someone rising from a tea shop can never have a national perspective. Like, if you make a 'sipahi' (constable) as 'kaptan' (superintendent of police), he can never have SP's approach but will have that of a constable," Agarwal had said in Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh.
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Senator Arlen Spector, a long time Republican from Pennsylvania, is reported to be poised to switch political parties. Senator Spector has always been his own man, not necessarily following party lines. (Don't we all wish there were more of these types of politicians). The powerful punch of this news rests in the power structure of the United States Senate. With the Minnesota election going to Al Franken, and Spector switching parties, the Democrats will hold a commanding lead on the Senate.
But why? We don not know. We can surmise a few things. The latest polls suggest that only 21 % of Americans identify themselves as Republican. That party is losing ground every day. But all politics is local – and Spector faces a tough challenge in a Republican primary in Pennsylvania. So what is going on – is Spector just looking out for himself – just playing any game that will get him reelected. We might think so – except that has never been the M.O of Arlen Spector.
We suspect that Spector is really tired of the Republican Party playing favorites with Radical Right Wing Extremists. The constant barrage of apologies to Rush Limbaugh and the silliness of the RNC Chair Steele is embarrassing to strong thinkers like Arlan Spector. Spector is probably tired of the fanatical gun lobby, the fanatical Christian Right, and the foolishness of promoting government management of marriage.
Spector is saying that he did not leave the Republican Party – the Republican Party left him. We applaud Senator Spector for his courage and his willingness to challenge the insanity that has gripped the Republican Party.
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As soon as he entered North Augusta Middle School's gym on Monday, Sampson, a 6-year-old bloodhound, went straight to John Hanyok.
John, 13, petted the dog as it placed its paws on his lap and briefly laid its head on the pupil's shoulder. Sampson then moved along down the bottom bleacher greeting other seventh-grade pupils.
"That was really cool," John said of the dog coming to him, adding that he didn't mind the dog hanging around him.
Officer Jason Ramey and Deputy William Tucker, members of the Aiken County Bloodhound Tracking Team, brought Sampson and a female bloodhound, 4-year-old Jessie, to the school for a seventh-grade assembly. They talked about their careers on the tracking team and how they use the bloodhounds to find people.
The pupils recently finished reading Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, and bringing in the bloodhounds was one of the activities related to the book, said seventh-grade teacher Beth Reynolds.
The pupils also received a visit from local coon hunters before they left for the winter break.
"Activities like these allow the students to have some hands-on experiences with how dogs and humans interact with each other, and it helps them make career connections," she said.
The pupils had an opportunity to pet each of the dogs and get an up-close view of some of the equipment the bloodhound team uses.
"I learned a lot about what the dogs do – how they seek and react to smells – and how this connects to the book" said John.
Phillip Smith, also 13, agreed.
"My favorite part was seeing the dogs and getting to see them up close," he said. "The most interesting thing I learned was that dogs like that usually eat just one time a day."
The Aiken County Blood-hound Tracking Team is a multi-agency team consisting of four officers each from North Augusta Public Safety and Aiken Public Safety, six deputies from the Aiken County Sheriff's Office and 15 bloodhounds.
"We hope that they took away the knowledge of who would look for them if they, or a family member, gets lost," said Tucker.
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With the coronation of Hillary Clinton to the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 all but certain, we are getting flashes in the pan of desperate alternatives: thus far Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. I say desperate because the objectives that are floated seem murky. Everybody seems to acknowledge that Clinton would prevail, so what's the point?
Let's put aside the goody-goody, Boy Scout line that a primary contest is to be hoped for because it will help Clinton, or because it is some kind of healthy political hygiene. A useful primary effort should be dangerous.
The sort of campaign that can have some constructive effect is one that imposes costs on the front-runner and by extension, the party's national elite/big donor/consultant machine. One cost is to compete with Clinton in such a way that she is obliged to do things she wouldn't otherwise do, spend money and political capital she would prefer to deploy elsewhere. A critique of her centrism that effectively alienates potential liberal supporters is the obvious approach. But this would have to be quite a critique, to discourage support to the extent of depressing turn-out in a general election with very high stakes. To be clear, the ideal outcome is not to sabotage her campaign, it is to force her to commit to positions that are hard to reverse later.
Of course candidates' primary campaign promises are never worth very much. I have a different, principal objective in mind. The Democratic Party needs to reconsider its purpose, since (like the Republicans) it is presently committed to policies that harm the nation and threaten the very survival of humanity. It needs to abandon the religion of deficit reduction. It needs to get serious about public investment, not content itself with a sprinkling of additional money (on top of a reduced baseline). It needs to reject its love for the corporatization of public K-12 education. It needs to reverse so-called welfare reform. It needs to be serious about climate change, rather than embracing the bogus theme of energy independence. And it needs to get out of the Empire business, not the least of which should include refusing to indulge every new barbarity committed by its Israeli allies.
I don't see Warren or Sanders as especially dangerous for Clinton. I would support either in a heartbeat. They are fine public servants and invaluable Members of Congress, but they are vulnerable to the popular albeit misguided charge of being too liberal for the country. The guy who could really give HRC grief is not them but . . . Jerry Brown. He could outflank her on both left and right, which is both a curse and an advantage. Unlike these others, and unlike HRC, he has actually run things — the state government of one of the largest economies in the world, twice, plus a challenging local government. He has done real things as a public official. You may not like some of it — I sure don't — but what has HRC done? She led an abortive health care effort and sponsored some bills in Congress. Really, any fool can sponsor a bill, though it took talent to screw up health care in the 90s. What did she do as Secretary of State, besides make speeches? The talk has been that foreign policy was actually run out of the White House, that HRC was more the figurehead on the ship of state, not the captain or the first mate.
I am not nominating Brown as my preferred standard-bearer. He is not an exemplary progressive figure. I do think he is crafty enough to break open the primaries, to replace formulaic debates about gradations of liberalism and centrist clichés with more interesting conversations whose destinations are not easily predicted. That's what I mean by dangerous. In that environment, a more free-wheeling discussion could flourish, and perhaps other figures could emerge. The biggest enemy of political enlightenment is predictability. Predictability encourages boredom, and boredom precludes rethinking.
It's Bash Bad Democrats Week on MaxSpeak. We have a target-rich environment. Today's clay pigeon is Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York.
We shouldn't expect much of Democrats in the god-forsaken places of Redstate America. (Sorry, just look at whom you've sent to the U.S. Senate like, forever.) These days the best they can do is get elected by hook or crook and vote for a Democrat to be Senate majority leader or Speaker of the House. Elsewhere, however, we would like Democrats to be all they can be, in the liberal sense. I want to see Democrats push the envelope of what's thought to be possible, rather than tacking to the center in order to maximize political support. People need to think differently, and leadership in that endeavor would be welcome.
If any place and any political office is ripe for this sort of adjustment, it is the governor of the deep blue state of New York. That's why the machinations of Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu elaborated by Matt Stoller are worth some attention. (See also Curmudgucation and LOHUD.) The surprising New York City mayoral contest showed that the state is fertile ground for a progressive, populist shift.
Governor Andrew Cuomo rolls in the Clinton/Obama tradition. It's not that he is no better than Republicans, or that he has done nothing. It's that he could do more. We can applaud his moves on gay marriage, but the bar for endorsement should be higher than that. Everybody knows his centrism is motivated by presidential ambitions, if not his personal views as well, assuming he has some personal views. The people of New York are not obliged to subsidize his ambitions.
The best face you can put on this sort of political career track is that pragmatic, defensive politics are the only bulwark against Republican takeover and ensuing catastrophe. As I opened by acknowledging, in many places this is true, and it is at least arguable if we are talking about the White House, but New York doesn't require pragmatism. A Republican couldn't ruin New York. He or she can only occupy space there.
Defensive politics contains a malignant internal logic. By relying on clever deployment of conventional wisdom, it precludes the encouragement of changes in public opinion. Conventional wisdom supports terrible policies when it comes to budgeting, the welfare state, social insurance, public investment, climate change, and foreign policy, to name a few.
An example is Democrats' perennial attack on Republican tax cuts for expanding the deficit. Deficit-reduction is usually bad policy. It has been used to justify the erosion of domestic public spending and attacks on Social Security, though never military spending, never tax cuts. By upholding this bankrupt fiscal doctrine, this folk wisdom, even in the absence of determined action on its behalf, the Administration leaves the notion to ripen and await the election of someone with the political wherewithal to exploit it with the most regrettable consequences.
The mission of a liberal opposition is to never be satisfied. Give credit where due, but then move on to new objectives. Maintain pressure to move leftward, otherwise witness political regress. Elevate substantive principle, threaten abstention of support for political leaders who fail to respond. Without the threat of abstention, there is no pressure on those in power to change. Promise to support them in the end no matter what, you might as well go home. The chief weapons besides negative publicity are primary campaigns and independent electoral campaigns.
So far Teachout and Hu are being good Democrats by going the primary route. I've never seen Hu in action. Teachout is very smart and very slick. She's almost too good; it makes me a little suspicious. The fact remains, she is bucking the Cuomo machine, which automatically gets her points in my book. She won't win, but she could be useful trouble for randy Andy.
I don't begrudge the Working Families Party their deal with Cuomo and DiBlasio. I hope they get what they bargained for. But in New York there is room for another turn of the screw.
Congratulations, Israeli gentlemen. You have just created a new hard-core leftist. Thank you for your service to The Revolution. Nothing gets the analytical wheels turning like a nice police beat-down.
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I'd still like to know, how many Palestinian children does Israel need to kill every day to defend itself?
Alerted by the lovely and ferocious Jane Hamsher, I was treated to the display of Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine, promising to deploy the power of logic. JC defends eliminating teacher tenure standards, joining a movement that is now spurred by the recent not-Sophia Vergara court decision in California. (Showing my mad SEO skillz.) I regret to report that his use of the power proves somewhere short of awesome.
JC notes correctly that due to tenure restrictions a government's need to lay off teachers in the teeth of the Great Recession causes the bad to be released along with the good.
This immediately raises two issues with which JC's power of logic fails to reckon. One is, who says there had to be all those lay-offs? My answer is Federal policy that failed to backstop the inevitably pro-cyclical (meaning counter-productive — lower spending/higher taxes) state fiscal policy during the economic downturn. Two is, supposing there is no tenure, how do we know that administrators, given the opportunity, would effectively cull the chaff from the wheat, in terms of teacher effectiveness? Who after all are these administrators, but people who decided they'd rather do something other than teach?
It should be noted that tenure rules vary by state. Many teachers lack union protection. Even with tenure, there could be a probationary period of years that provides principals the opportunity to reverse their bad hiring decisions. Insofar as there are bad teachers, this apparently hasn't worked. If principals have been bad at managing teachers, why would higher-level administrators be good at managing principals, who as managers have no tenure?
A third question that JC does consider is, assuming some job security protections are eliminated, how would the public sector attract better teachers? JC suggests that weaker job security could be accompanied by higher pay. My question, following his logic, is do we observe this in practice, ever, or more than occasionally? In that case, are we observing genuinely elevated pay scales or mere hyping of limited bonus schemes? I don't know the answer. I would like to.
A settled fact about public sector employment is that workers accept somewhat reduced salary in exchange for greater job security. I suggest that low turnover among teachers is a good thing, and a move towards more of a spot market in teachers goes against the grain of stable employment.
JC relates a theory that is out there:
The liberal education-reform theory is that the public will be more open to higher taxes to support higher levels of teacher pay if teachers are accountable for their performance. Likewise, those dollars will be spent more effectively if they are related to performance rather than to years on the job.
Which raises another question: can performance be effectively measured? JC thinks so. I am skeptical. Sadly, this is not susceptible to JC's power of logic. It is a matter of empirical evidence. Jesse Rothstein is your go-to guy on that issue. (Here's Jesse on not-Sophia Vergara.)
Then JC offers an explanation of the labor market:
In most fields, your pay is based on your perceived value rather than on the number of years you have spent on the job.
Sorry, this logic is simplistic to the point of being just . . . wrong. Labor is not a spot market. Labor markets do not inexorably march towards equilibrium. The marginal product of labor is a non sequitur. The public sector is not a profit-maximizer. Both the seller and buyer of labor comprehend non-monetary factors, not the least of them being job security. Wrong wrong wrong. To this ever so slightly advanced level of labor economics I would propose my own maxim: a government that manages tenured employees badly will hire and fire untenured employees inefficiently as well, since bad governments are going to be . . . bad.
How many bad teachers are out there? JC offers a report written by his wife, which connubial support I think is commendable, no snark intended. The evidence for the frequency of bad teachers cited in the report consists of surveys of teachers and administrators. It is thin. Moreover, the magnitude of bad teaching as claimed and summarized here is also not much. After all, one has to weigh the negative impact of reduced job security on the majority of teachers, evidently not-bad in light of the report's evidence, against the benefits of nailing the purportedly bad teachers. Ms Chait provides estimates of the benefits of removing bad teachers but a) assumes you can accurately single them out in the first place, and b) test scores are a legitimate criterion for success.
Powerful economic forces beset the teaching profession. Those with the capacity to be good teachers can make more money elsewhere. The public sector and the labor market in general are going backwards in labor standards. The effectiveness of schooling depends hugely on factors outside of the school, as Jesse's pappy has written. And finally, education reform schemes can be taken up under a lack of supporting evidence.
Herein an odd recap of the New Left (circa 1968-72). The differences suggested between Lefts, 'New' and Newest are more superficial than real. Most of it has to do with the novel terminology one finds today, which I assume stems from arcane post-modernist academic discourse.
As in the olden days, characteristics of a tiny minority of the already tiny left tend to be attributed more widely than is justified. When you say New Left, a frequent association is to bombings by the Weatherpeople. This was a minority faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) that became even smaller when they started running amuck in 1969. SDS actually had an extended sequence of different vintages of Left, starting in the early 1960s, ranging from old-fashioned democratic socialists inside the Democratic Party to a smorgasbord of assorted Marxist and anarchist factions. One such faction, the widely reviled Weatherpeople (a minority, in numbers), were responsible for some tragic deaths, including a few of their own people, though compared to the Baader-Meinhof Gang or the Japanese Red Army (sic), Weather was a bunch of bratty teenagers.
Today you can find talk of "intersectionality," "positionality" and privilege checking, but this too is a feature of a minority of a minority. Typically the setting for this discourse is not activism. It is the pastime of people who tweet. I'd be amazed to hear there were challenges of privilege checking at gatherings of Moral Monday in North Carolina. Or the 2011 occupation of the Wisconsin state capitol building. Or the sit-ins of the Dream Defenders in Florida. To quote an old old lefty, it's a "hurricane in a drop of water."
Much that is old has become new again. Intra-left racial exchanges today echo the split in the civil rights movement that launched Stokely Charmichael's "black power" message and black nationalism more broadly. The original Black Panthers, with their interest in cross-racial coalition, actually did a lot to offset that divisiveness, until the cops shot them up.
Gender conflicts originally broke out as women's groups started forming around 1969, if memory serves, in reaction to cloddish behavior and deficient analysis by radical men. (Men's groups formed quickly after, but as a much less common activity. You couldn't have dragged me to one at gunpoint.) Since then gender identification has gotten much more complex. So that's one genuinely new thing that would have mystified a time-traveler from 1968.
Finally, class. The New Left was substantially middle-class or greater, though this tends to be exaggerated. It should not be forgotten that there was parallel, connected agitation in the labor movement and among veterans. No less than today, the class issue provoked endless navel gazing, since the objects of New Left students' organizing were racial minorities and/or the working class. Historically, the leaders of insurgencies often come from privileged backgrounds. How much time is it worth dwelling on this? I'd say not much. It's old news. A fair amount of the self-examination focused on racial bias. I wouldn't say that none of it was productive. It's certainly not new.
How much of the problems with the left today are due to bias stemming from the racial, gender, or ethnic identities of its members? I would suggest for all practical purposes none, zero, nada, zilch. The left's problem is that it is small. You might quickly note the left is also fragmented, not least by identity-connected concerns. I suggest that if the left was larger — if it had larger, all-inclusive organizations — the fragments would come together to advance their concerns, and legitimate concerns would be well-served. How to grow the Left? Damned if I know.
The masses are not abstaining from left politics because of identity bias within the left. Rather, a certain notion of identity in the white middle class or working class, particularly in the South, has become a pole of attraction that animates the GOP and a nasty assortment of neo-fascist groups that blow up buildings, shoot doctors, and assault people with dark skin. That is the principal identity problem in the U.S.
The recent Stephen Colbert brouhaha is instructive. What began as Colbert's sortie against racism out in the world, through SC's defense of native Americans against racist epithets, was preempted and transformed into a complaint about Colbert. That sort of intervention does not contribute to any plausible concept of progressive activism. It is at best a distraction, at worst a modern echo of COINTELPRO.


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Pyng Medical Corp. (TSX: PYT)
is pleased to announce FY2006 sales of $3,088,448 (FY2005 $2,797,744), a 10% sales increase.
Fourth quarter sales were $ 979,300 (FY2005 $840,328), an increase of 17%. Q4 and Q3 sales were stronger and showed a marked increased over the previous 2 quarters and the same periods last fiscal.
We are also please to announce that we have sold and shipped our 75,000th unit of F.A.S.T.1™ in September 2006.
As has been the case with all Canadian corporations dealing in the USA, changes to the US/CDN dollar exchange rates compared to FY2005 depressed Pyng revenues. The actual increase in revenue experienced was due to a significant increase in F.A.S.T.1™ unit sales of 15% offsetting the decline in the US dollar exchange. Also of significance was the increase in the sales of training systems, 30% for some distributors, boding well for future system sales. Pyng Medical continues to be profitable with strong cash position in spite of these exchange rate issues.
All of our recently newly appointed USA distributors have started to make a contribution to revenue, particularly in Q4, as their sales activities yield results. Their appointment was to address the opportunities created by the changes to the ILCOR guidelines. These changes have created increased opportunities for the F.A.S.T.1™, particularly in the civilian market to address medical conditions such as cardiac arrests. The American Heart Association estimates that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) treats 107,000 to 240,000 cardiac arrests in the United States annually, a significant opportunity for Pyng's F.A.S.T.1™.
Sales in Europe also increased, particularly in Germany and the UK. These increases resulted from both the military and civilian sectors. Increased European sales are part of Pyng's sales diversification strategy and to avoid future dependence on the US/CDN exchange rate.
Pyng Medical staff will attend MEDICA in November 2006, one of Europe's premier medical shows. The primary purpose of this attendance is to appoint additional distributors in European and other key global markets.
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I have been obsessed with clothing hacks for as long as I can remember! Sometimes clothes can be so frustrating and so I've compiled a list of the best clothing hacks out there! They are guaranteed to blow your mind! 😉
1. The Neck Measurement Hack
To see if a pair of jeans will fit without trying them on, all you have to do is take the waist of the jeans and see if they will fit around your entire neck. It has been proven that the circumference of your neck is more than likely equal to the front of your waist. So the next time you're out shopping but don't have the time to try it on, try this hack to save time!
2. Get Rid of Pesky Pilling Using a Razor
There are certain fabrics that tend to pill (polyester), so if you find yourself frustrated at piece of clothing you once loved but it has begun to pill I have the solution! You can use an old razor to shave them away. It's very simple, just be extra careful so that you will not cut through the fabric!
3. Dish Soap will Remove Oil Stains
I don't know about you but I used wash my favorite shirt a whole bunch of times and it still had the oil stain on it. However, when I used regular dish soap to spot treat it, it came right out! I almost cried LOL. So, this hack is a life saver if you accidentally dropped some oily food on your shirt and need it to come out without spending a dime!
4. Get Rid of Wrinkles Fast with your Dryer
If you are in a hurry in the morning and don't feel like whipping out your ironing table and iron. Just throw the article of clothing in the dryer for ten minutes while you do your hair or take a shower. When you're done, your clothing will be wrinkle free and warm! 😉
5. A Dryer Sheet will Remove Deodorant Stains
Whenever I throw on a form fitting dress or t-shirt I almost always get some of my deodorant on it. I learned a few years ago that all you have to do is grab a dryer sheet and rub it on the stain until it comes off. It even makes your clothes smell 10x better!
6. Roll Clothing in your Dresser for Easy Access
I used to just fold my clothes in small piles and put them in my drawer. However, I always took forever to find tops or bottoms because you can only see the top shirt or pant! So one of my best friends told me that she rolls her clothes so that she can see all of her options easily! Ever since that amazing tip I can find everything I need in my drawers way quicker!
7. Use a Hair Straightener to Iron your Collar
This tip saves me so much time it's ridiculous! After I'm done straightening my hair, I turn down the heat a little, wipe off the inside with a dry wash cloth, and iron down my collar! It's so easy and works quickly!
8. Shaving Cream Removes Makeup Stains
This hack saves my life every day! I got into a car accident a few years ago and the air bag burned my chest! 🙁 So I apply make up to cover up the small scars that are still there. Now as you can probably guess my makeup gets on my clothes each time. Using shaving cream is so easy and it works quickly! I do it just before I throw it in the wash and it comes out just like new!
9. Hairspray Prevents Runs in Stockings
I am a clumsy girl! I just can't help but to mess something up, my day wouldn't be complete unless I spilled something or ruined something. So this hack helps me so much. Whenever I have an event where I need to dress up a little, I lightly spray hairspray on my tights, to make sure I don't create a run. It works every time!
10. Cover a Scuff on Your Shoes with Nail Polish
We all have that pair of shoes that would be perfect if we could just remove that annoying scuff. Well, I have the fix! Buy nail polish that matches the color of your shoes and voila, you've fixed the problem. No one will be able to tell that you had a scuff to begin with! This is one of my favorite hacks!
11. Use a Paper Clip and Thread to Zip Up a Dress
I lived alone my junior year of college, and I remember before my formal date party for my sorority I had no way of zipping up my dress. I ran outside and asked the first person I saw to zip it up, it just happened to be a cable guy haha! I'm sure I made his day 😉 After that experience I asked around how other girls zip up their dresses when they're alone. The consensus was tying a long piece of string to a paper clip, attaching the clip to the zipper, then using the string to pull it up! This hack is perfect for the independent woman!
12. Use the Tape Hack when putting on a Bracelet
Putting on a bracelet by yourself can be frustrating, because it will just keep falling off your wrist due to nothing holding the other side down. Using a piece of tape will hold the top of the bracelet down so that you can easily connect the bracelet together.
13. Use a Panty-Liner to Block Sweat Stains
If you are going to a place where you know it's going to be hot like a club or dance class, this hack will change everything! Just simply apply a panty-liner to the armpit of the top you're going to wear, and you will be safe from those embarrassing sweat stains! Just be sure if you wear a white top, you can't see the panty-liner through the shirt.
14. Duct Tape Can Hold up your Twins
Kim Kardashian slayed my life when she said gave us her tip with using duct tape. Whenever you want to wear a very deep V shirt or dress but wearing a bra is not an option, use duct tape to hold them bad boys up!! Make sure you clean the area you are applying duct tape to, and cover your nipples with tissue. Walk around and dance to make sure that your tape is holding them up perfectly. Now you can wear that sexy dress and have a perky chest too!
15. Pocket Size Can Affect Your Butt Size
I have used this hack since I was 13, I'm not joking. LOL! If you wear jeans with big pockets your butt is going to look smaller, so if you're looking to make the appearance of your butt to look slimmer, buy that type of jean. If you're looking to make your butt look bigger, look for pants that either have no pockets or pockets that are smaller and higher up. This will make your butt look perkier and bigger!
If you have any hacks that you love to use, comment below! I'd love to hear them! 🙂
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By DAVID NELSON, INSIDE BELLTOWN
My apologies for getting this out late, in case you missed it on my Facebook and Twitter, I've been at the hospital with my niece as she gave birth to a healthy baby boy on Thanksgiving.
Brace yourself for road closures in Belltown and Downtown Seattle due to the Seattle Marathon.
Saturday, Nov 24th, 2012
Magic in the Market – Head to Pike Place Market to see them kick off their Christmas joy. There will be hot cider, caroling, and Santa will light the Christmas tree at 5pm. See more info here.
Sunday, Nov 25th, 2012
Volunteeer at the Seattle Marathon – The half and full marathon will be running through Belltown and Downtown Seattle on Sunday morning and volunteers are still needed. See more info about the marathon here, and how to volunteer here.
All Weekend
Rocket to the Top of the Space Needle – Head to your local Bartell Drugs to pick up a voucher for free admission to the top of the Space Needle for an adult or two children. In case you missed it, the Space Needle is in holiday mode with the Christmas Tree on top and the "coolest" Santa. See more info here.
Ride the Holiday Carousel – What would a Downtown Seattle Christmas be without the carousel at Westlake Park? Not a good one; so go ride the carousel this weekend. Money raised will benefit Treehouse. See more info here.
Festival of Lights – Grab the kids and head to the Seattle Children's Museum for the Festival of Lights. This weekend they'll be exploring Diwali. See more info here.
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Fiji Time: 3:48 PM on Monday 26 February
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Arin Kumar
Monday, April 21, 2014
A TEAM of officials from Island Breeze Rugby Plus have left the country to conduct clinics in Vanuatu.
Rugby Plus national co-ordinator Lasarusa Nasenaivalu said the clinics would be for two weeks and would help develop players at grassroots level.
"The clinics are all about strengthening players from grassroots level to show them the way to become elite players," he said.
"We will use four competency-based approaches — knowledge, skill, character and resources.
"Also we will focus on the player and his life, the player and his family, the player and his farm and the player and his game."
The organisation has been running clinics on Ovalau and has even taken a team from Ovalau on an overseas tour.
"Another main aspect of our clinic is chaplaincy so that we can interact with the players and help them in their individual lives and motivate them to think and live positively on the field and off the field.
"Rugby Plus helps as a whole — physically, mentally and spiritually."
Island Breeze is a Melbourne, Australia-based organisation that focuses on the holistic development of players and officials on and off the field. Nasenaivalu said funding came from friends and families in Australia.
"We would also like to thank our sponsors Kooga, Footies for All and PACMAS."
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"I adapted this from some different recipes I found on the Zaar. My wife and I loved it. I did not want to use ranch or blue cheese dressing as the sauce so I combined traditional pizza sauce and ranch dressing in a 4 to 1 ratio. This came out hot but not too hot, you may want to kick it up a bit if that's your style."
Dad's Buffalo Chicken Pizza
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READY IN:40mins
Ingredients Nutrition
Pizza sauce
- 4 ounces tomato sauce
- 1⁄2 teaspoon marjoram
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon parmesan cheese
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 ounce ranch dressing
Pizza dough
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 (1/4 ounce) package yeast
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 -2 tablespoon olive oil
Pizza Toppings
- 1 boneless chicken breast
- 1⁄2 small onion (purple preferably)
- 1 (4 ounce) can black olives
- frank red hot buffalo wing sauce
- mozzarella cheese
- Dough.
- Add sugar to 1 cup of warm water and put the yeast into the mix. Let sit for 10 minutes until it gets foamy.
- Pour yeast mix into bowl and then add flour, salt, and olive oil. Stir until there is no flour left and the mixture is doughy. Knead the dough into a ball. Cover with the bowl you mixed it in and allow it to rise for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Sauce.
- Pour can of sauce into saucepan and then add all spices, sugar, and parmesan. Bring it to a boil and allow it simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Cook chicken in a pan until there is no pink in the middle and cooked through out. Chop the chicken into cubes and place in a bowl. Pour some of the buffalo sauce onto the chicken and mix until covered.
- While chicken is cooking chop up vegetable toppings. Mix 4 oz sauce and 1 oz of ranch dressing until it is consistent.
- Punch down dough and roll out onto a floured and greased(spray) pizza pan. spread sauce/ranch mixture onto the dough and add chicken and other toppings. Cover with cheese and cook at 425F for 10 - 20 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly.
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In honor of this occasion, Oertha has come together in a Principality Arts and Science Competition with all Branches sponsoring a contest. Everyone is invited to participate and multiple entries are encouraged with extra points for combining categories. (i.e. Illuminated letters and calligraphy, Russian dessert with bobbin laced-looking icing) Be creative and have fun.
Here are the individual
Principality Scribe: Illuminated Letters / Eskalya: leather, horn or wood drinking vessels / St. Guinefort: Calligraphy / Winter's Gate: Embroidered blackwork in clothing or accessories / Selviergard: Viking turn shoes / Pavlok Gorod: Favorite Russian dessert redacted with documentation / Ynys Taltraeth: Wooden box either wood-burned or painted AND/OR any Viking cord / Earngyld: Bobbin lace with metallic threads / Ravensfjord: Viking Wired Jewelry / St. Boniface; A Poem in any period style to Honor the Princes and Princesses of Oertha (any Past, Present and Future Royals) The pieces do not have to be performed.
In addition to the Oerthan
A&S Competition here are the traditional competitions:
The Prince's Whim is Viking hats. The Princess's Whim is Viking treasure necklaces.
The Autocrat's Whim is Boffer helmet crests from 6-8 inches in height; must be able to have 2"x2" square of Velcro attached to the bottom. There will be 2 categories: Adult & Under 16. These crests will be used in the Youth Boffer Roses Jousting Tourney. All Youth Boffer Roses Tourney participants MUST have a crest. (Parents, break out the glue gun)
A light lunch of soup and bread will be provided both Saturday and Sunday with a light breakfast on Sunday.
Site Information: Eagle River Lions Club/P.O. Box 771046 Eagle River, AK 9957.
Site Fee - $20 adults, $10 children, $60 family cap, $3 non-member fee.
Site opens at 10am and closes at 10pm.
Lists open at 11am Saturday.
Autocrat: Elizabeth deGresse firstname.lastname@example.com
Directions: Eagle River Lions' Club at Mile 2 Eagle River Road in Eagle River, Alaska. From Anchorage travel North on the New Glenn to the South Eagle River exit, turn right onto Artillery; turn right again at the light onto Eagle River Road. The Lions Club is located next to the ball fields. From Palmer/Wasilla and all points north, travel South to the South Eagle River exit, etc.


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A/N: Hello again all. I finally got a new idea for a story, and its all thanks too darkness113dark from deviantart. She has some amazing pictures…. So I want to thank her for the inspiration I needed to write this.
Rival tribe
A few years have gone by since Inuyasha and his companions have lost the trail of their archenemy Naraku. This was really starting to get on the short nerves of Inuyasha. He was just itching to get his claws around him and hack him to pieces. But of course when you think you're on the track you end up running into a group of demons that are just out for your blood.
Inuyasha and the gang were waiting for Kagome's return after her long week of finals and other important tests. Of course for the half-breed Inuyasha waiting a week was just too long. For minutes on end he would sit in the hut tapping his nails on the floor. " What is taking her so long?" He grumbled.
" Kagome said she had too take some very important tests Inuyasha. It's not like we have any clues to Naraku's location. So the best thing for you to do is just, RELAX!" Miroku commented.
" Relax is the key word in that whole sentence. You are driving us completely crazy with all that tapping… If you are that worried about her… go and see how she is doing…" Sango suggested.
" What's the point in that? The last time I did that Kagome got so mad. She nearly shot me with her arrow!"
Everyone started to think of something Inuyasha could have done and they all came up with the same answer. " You peeping tom!" They shouted.
" What! The door was wide open! I wasn't sure if she was in there… and the next thing I know Kagome screams.. she starts throwing various things at me and the last thing I remember.. is an arrow flying right by my ear!"
Miroku cracked up laughing. " Oh my… I wish I was there to see the splended site… was it good?"
Sango began to turn red as her hand found its way to Miroku's face. (slap)
" Damn it Miroku.. can you think of anything else expect seeing naked women!" Miroku laughed nervously as he rubbed his newly reddened cheek.
" I didn't think so…"
Suddenly Inuyasha started to sniff the air. " Finally! Kagome has returned."
Kagome walks in with her big yellow book bag. " Hello everyone!" She greeted them happily. " I got gifts for everyone.."
" Yum.. you mean you got my favorite snack!" Shippo asked.
" Yep, I got the soups and the chips… lets see here… or those fruit snacks… and the fruit drinks… Go on everyone dive in…"
Sango and Miroku approached the big bag first and they were surprised to see how much she actually brought. " My Kagome… did you bring a village's food?" Sango asked.
" Oh that… no.. that's just a weeks worth of shopping… I had helped mom and Sota by it for you guys… Since you're such good friends and all."
" You are too kind Kagome… I wish there was a way we could repay you for this humble gift.." Miroku commented.
" No need… You all have been so kind to me… this is my way of saying thanks…"
Shippo sat back down on his spot on
the floor and looked up at Kagome.
" So how did all those tests go?"
" Don't even ask… they were terrible… I completely blanked out, didn't remember anything I studied the night before.. I think the only subject I got a pretty decent grade on was history.. but even that I'm not sure." Kagome sighed as she sat down opening up her soda. " That means I'll be a year behind everyone else…"
" I'm sure they'll understand since you missed a lot." Sango tried to reinsure her.
" Maybe, but who really knows…" Kagome put on a fake smile, " So how is it?"
" Not to bad…"
" Good. If you noticed they are a bit different this time…"
" Yeah this is a bit spicier then the last one.." Miroku stated.
Kagome looked over at Inuyasha. " Sorry I took so long…did anything happen will I was away?"
" Nothing too important…"
Miroku leaned over. " Inuyasha was driving the rest of us crazy… I mean he'd sit there day after day, tapping his nails on the floor…"
Kagome looked over at him with an awe that was so sweet of him look.
" Thanks for waiting…"
Before Inuyasha could make a reply he suddenly got a sense of a strong demon aura. He got up and rushed out to see the sky had completely darkened. Kagome and the others walked out to find out what's going on.
" What is that?" Kagome questioned, " It's so powerful… it's making my skin cringe."
" I don't know. But whatever or who ever it is… That aura is strong… very strong…"
" You think we should check it out?" Kagome questioned.
" Perhaps... What ever the source could be… it might be able to tell us where we can find Naraku." Miroku stated.
" I agree." Sango stated.
" Then what are we waiting for!" Inuyasha shouted, " We gotta go after it before it disappears!"
Kagome rushed in to gather all the stuff and with that they were off on another adventure in the hopes of finding out what this new presence was.
A long distance away Sesshomaru had picked up on the trail. ' How strange. That power feels the same as mine and my fathers. Is it possible that rival kings had not completely vanished? I wonder..' Sesshomaru looked a bit interesting as he turned his barring and headed toward that new power.
Jaken looked up at his lord. " Lord Sesshomaru… where are you taking us my lord…"
" I sense an familiar power… one of which has been lost almost a hundred of years. Even though this power does have its connections with the ancient war I'm more interested to find out if these powers have anything to do with Naraku…"
Rin blinked a few times. " My lord… does this mean you'll be leaving me alone?"
" As much as I would like to leave you in a place I know you'll be safe, no where is more secure then by my side. Once we arrive at the location I will leave you with a old family friend… I think you'll like her, she was much like you in her youth."
Rin was very excited to hear that she was going to meet someone of a great origin like her lord. " Sounds like fun Lord Sesshomaru.."
Sesshomaru gave a quick pleased look at his human companion before commanding Jaken to follow him.
In a place not to far from the brother's location Kikyo picked up on the aura as well. " What is this aura I'm sensing? For some reason it bids me to come near it… Interesting, perhaps this demon has the answers, which I'm seeking…"
To be continued…
Hello everyone. I finished the first chapter of this new story. It already looks pretty good. Well I wanna hear your take on this.. Please leave me a review, no flames… Till next time
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. A group of Kansas City Chiefs fans is so upset with the team, they plan to fly a banner over Arrowhead Stadium before Sundays game against the Baltimore Ravens voicing their displeasure.
According to a Chiefs fan who goes by the handle pc_capone at ChiefsPlanet.com, the banner will read, WE DESERVE BETTER! FIRE PIOLI BENCH CASSEL.
That refers to Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli, who put the team together, and starting quarterback Matt Cassel, who has thrown seven interceptions and given up three fumbles in the past four games.
In the post, the fan says the cost to fly such a banner costs $725, but the pilot agreed to reduce the price by $100 because he believes we are doing Gods work.
As of 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, this fan had raised $1270.61 from donations sent in by Chiefs fans throughout the nation.
The fan is encouraging others to continue donating with plans to use the remaining money to fly other banners at future home games.
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I laid in bed awake last night, unable to sleep for the thought that in some universe, everyone hates Amy Poehler as much as they hate Taylor Swift. I tried to reconcile how I felt about how awful this universe would be, but I couldn't deal with it.
And then there was talk of healthy and also delicious ice cream and nights full of real sleep, and I want to go to there. Follow the link and vote for as many as you want (to go to there too)!